“There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.” KindStoriesWould BeWonderfulInfluenceSpreadBe GoodAll KindsEducateWonderful WomanGood Influences Book:Conversations with Ray Bradbury Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury
“The forces that run the world always try to keep things under control. The population might be having a wonderful time, buying iPods and going to nice restaurants, but I still feel they're all kind of under control.” WorldFeelsTryingKindStillsMightRunningForceNiceWonderfulPopulationAll KindsRestaurantsBuyingIpodsWonderful Times Author:Terry Gilliam
“I think it's a wonderful thing to have African-American characters. Look at life. It's not a white world or a black world; there are all kind of people in it. It's showing growth, and in today's world there are so many outlets.” PeopleThinkingWorldLooksKindCharacterTodayBlackGrowthWhiteWonderfulAll KindsAfrican AmericanWonderful ThingsOutletsToday's WorldAmerican Character Author:Darius McCrary
“I kind of enjoy the limits. If you've got no limits, you can do absolutely anything, it's very difficult, actually. I always enjoyed working with machines like color photocopiers and letter-pressing type settings, things where the limits are very apparent. You push the machine to do something, and it tries to do its best, and it usually has wonderful qualities all of its own. Then you get a sort of dialogue going, and the limitations become qualities.” IfsTryingKindEnjoyDifficultCan DoQualityWonderfulColorTypeLimitsLettersMachinesSettingDialogueSettingsEnjoyedLimitation Author:Dave McKean
“That's the way to get young people. Once they see there are wonderful things to hunt for, to rediscover a species that was thought to be extinct or is extremely rare, to be the first to see a nest, to discover a new species unsuspected close to your home - these are things, I think, with a little education and excitement and the right kind of natural history would actually start a movement that makes going back to nature a profitable adventure.” PeopleThinkingWayFirstsKindLittlesHomeYoungNaturalWonderfulMovementAdventureSpeciesExcitementWonderful ThingsHuntsProfitableNestsNatural History Author:E. O. Wilson
“The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.” WorldKindCountryWonderfulHealthyCompetitionInternationalMetaphorCooperationOlympicsOlympic GamesOlympics GamesWinter OlympicsOlympic SpiritHealthy Competition Author:John Towner Williams
“I want to lift the audience to the miraculous in human nature. After all, we shouldn't be here, with all the odds against us in nature. It's kind of unusual and wonderful!” WantHumansKindNatureAudienceWonderfulHuman NatureLiftsUnusualOddsMiraculous Author:Paul Taylor
“Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.” KnowsTryingKindLongEnoughLife IsWonderfulMysteriousMaps Author:Alan Ball
“So you have the challenge of just learning the lines, period, and not only learning them, but learning them to the extent that you assimilate them, so that you're not worried about what the next word is coming out of your mouth when it comes to doing a scene. And you're also in the trenches with the writers, just in the wonderful kind of back and forth of how is it best to say something, even if it involves four or five words. I love that kind of thing.” IfsKindNextChallengesLinesFiveFourWonderfulPeriodsSceneMouthsWorriedComing OutBack And ForthTrenches Author:Glenn Close
“I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people. In the '90s, it became kind of a hard and unwelcoming city in many ways. It became conservative, like the whole country.” PeopleMenWayHumansKindCountryHardWholeYoungHuman BeingsCitiesWonderfulNew YorkOrganizationConservativeNew YorkersGrown Man Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov
“I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just... it's just a wonderful thing. Some of my stories work, some of them don't work. Some of them are wild and I love them, but they certainly don't fit into any kind of a normal system that I know about.” KnowsWritingKindStoriesWonderfulFitNormalWonderful Things Author:Walter Mosley
“We never had a girl in the band. Why? Certainly there's some rippin' female players in our kind of music. We have no objection to it. It'd be wonderful.” KindGirlPlayerWonderfulBandFemaleObjections Author:Ketch Secor
“I spent the first few years of my life in a smallish community in Queens. Back in those early days, kids could roam the streets with relatively little supervision and one place I visited frequently was the local library. This particular branch was little more than a storefront but to me it was an alternative universe where I could explore my interests and receive kind, informative answers to my questions from the wonderful librarians.” YearsFirstsKindLittlesKidsUniverseInterestCommunityAnswersWonderfulStreetsParticularLibraryLocalsAlternativesQueensBranchesLibrarianSupervisionInformative Author:Jonathan Kellerman
“I think we all should try and eat a good diet. It's actually a wonderful to eat a good diet, because you're eating all of these different kinds of foods... and they all taste good, and when you get used to it, you feel better!” ThinkingFeelsShouldTryingKindDifferentUsedWonderfulTasteEatingDietsDifferent KindsFeel Better Author:Bruce Ames
“I just get to go to work with such great actors who are so talented, especially Elizabeth (Perkins). You are so wonderful and kind and good and wonderful and sexy and great, and I just want to make out with all of you.” WantKindActorsWonderfulSexyGreat ActorsMake Out Author:Mary-Louise Parker
“TV commercials make parenting look like there are going to be good days and bad days - like, it'll be this gentle wave, like you'll have a blissed-out, really wonderful day or two, and then, you know, then you'll have an issue. And what parenting is, is kind of earthquake.” KnowsLooksKindTwoIssuesWonderfulTvsLike YouWaveBe GoodGentleGood DayBad DayEarthquakesWonderful DayTv CommercialGood Days And Bad Days Author:Dan Savage
“It's kind of a sad thing when a normal love of country makes you a super patriot. I do think we have a pretty wonderful country, and I thank God that He chose me to live here.” ThinkingKindCountryWonderfulNormalThank GodPatriotSad Things Author:John Wayne
“It's fascinating. It's also exhilarating when you see people making the exact same choices that you've made. It kind of validates what you've decided to do. I saw a wonderful production of Jessica Lange doing Streetcar with Alec Baldwin. It was gorgeous. It's a measure of what a great classic that is, that our Cate Blanchett also did an absolute amazing Blanche in Sydney, as well as in New York.” PeopleWellsKindMadeChoicesSawsWonderfulNew YorkDecidedAbsolutesProductionsMade ItClassicFascinatingGorgeousExhilaratingSydneyJessicaBlanche Author:Jacki Weaver
“The single greatest pleasure that I have in doing ('Bizarre Foods') is when I meet families with 6, 7, 8-year-olds, or teenagers, who say, 'It's something the whole family can watch, and it lets us show our younger children that one man's 'weird' is another man's 'wonderful,' and we all kind of live in the same place.' It's just the best part of my day.” MenYearsKindChildrenWholeShowsPleasureWatchesWonderfulAll KindsTeenagerOne ManBizarreAnother ManWhole FamilyGreatest Pleasures Author:Andrew Zimmern
“Everything about acting drives me and gives me the need to really try it. It's an evolution - doing the same thing for 12 years is kind of a chunk. Anyone would be up for a little bit of a change. It is so rewarding to do a movie, and so enjoyable. It's hard work, but really wonderful.” NeedsGivingTryingYearsKindLittlesHardWould BeBitsActingWonderfulHard WorkEvolutionLittle BitGive MeEnjoyableChunks Author:Agyness Deyn
“I have a problem with Porsches. They're wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one. Somehow, the typical Porsche people-and I wish them no ill-are not, I feel, my kind of people. I don't go around saying that Porsches are a pile of dung, but I do know that psychologically I couldn't handle owning one.” PeopleKnowsFeelsKindProblemWishWonderfulCarIllHandleTypicalPorsche Author:Rowan Atkinson
“I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.” MenHeartKindYoungStrongWonderfulSonMy HeartYoung ManDaring Author:Maya Angelou
“I attribute that to the generosity of people that are in the entertainment business because they are all struggling. All roads seem to come to acting, for certain kinds of people that have a reason for being there. They want to be seen and heard, but there's more to it than that. There's a kindred spirit of struggling to find out, "What is this thing? What are we?" It's those eternal questions. But, in the meanwhile, I've met some wonderful people doing this.” PeopleWantKindReasonSeemsSpiritCertainActingStruggleWonderfulHeardMetsEternalEntertainmentGenerosityAttributesBeing ThereKindredEntertainment BusinessKindred Spirit Author:Lance Henriksen
“I thought it would fit a niche. I didn't anticipate, nor do I think anybody did, that it would become this global phenomenon, the way that it has. The critics have been so kind and favorable, it has really garnered such wonderful praise, and the numbers have been through the roof. It's actually been quite surreal. I'm still pinching myself because it's amazing. For me, we went to Atlanta and we spent our summer shooting this little zombie show, and it was ours. It was our sweet little zombie show [The Walking Dead], and the world has embraced us.” ThinkingWorldWayKindLittlesHas BeensStillsShowsNumbersWonderfulSweetFitWalkingSummerPraiseCriticsShootingPhenomenonRoofZombieSurrealAnticipateNicheAtlantaWalking DeadPinching Author:Laurie Holden
“The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's in the photograph - a kind of rhetorical device or rhetorical strategy. It's always felt very natural to me, because I want a person to end up thinking about the world, and to think about it in a way that is transformed by the experience of art.” ThinkingWorldWayWantKindPersonsArtEndsFeltNaturalWonderfulStyleToolsStrategyPhotographVersionsDevicesTransformedDocumentariesFlexibleCredibilityRhetoricalRhetorical Strategies Author:Frank Gohlke
“I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.” PeopleKnowsTryingKindHelpingTechnologyWonderfulHelp MeSurroundNew Technology Author:Dolly Parton
“I am the lucky duck because I have family . My wonderful aunt and uncle are letting me crash on their couch, which isn't really a couch...I have a room! It's been kind of a blessing for the cast because all of us have gotten so close, not knowing anyone in Atlanta. All the guys on the show have become kind of like brothers, and all of us girls are pretty inseparable.” KindShowsGuyGirlRoomsKnowingWonderfulBrotherBlessingLuckyCastsDucksNot KnowingCrashUnclesAuntCouchesInseparableAtlantaAunts And Uncles Author:Candice Accola
“And by banning [smartphones] from the set, the whole crew tends to work tighter with each other. And then it just becomes a thing where people kind of fall in love with the idea, 'This is the film-industry that I signed up for! This is really wonderful.' But then they go back to another set and everybody's on their cellphone, everyone's in their own little box, and they get depressed about it.” PeopleKindLittlesIdeasWholeFilmFallWonderfulIndustryFalling In LoveBoxesCrewFilm IndustrySmartphonesCellphone Author:Quentin Tarantino
“There's a whole slew of wonderful speculation of flying in a fanciful way. Gulliver is one of the central examples; Swift has the hum of Arabian Nights in his ear with Gulliver's Travels. The difference is in scale - Gulliver as a kind of Sinbad kind of figure, the way he is picked up and carried. Just to finish up with Scheherazade, I do think that The Arabian Nights could be considered as a great book on women's position in the world.” ThinkingWorldWayKindBookWholeNightDifferencesWonderfulFiguresExamplePositionEarsFlyingScalesSpeculationGreat BookArabianGulliverArabian NightsGulliver's Travels Author:Marina Warner
“I love to ride horses. I've ridden since I was a kid so I got to do some riding, which was a lot of fun. But most of the stunts were left to the girls. It's the girls rescuing the guys mostly. So it was kind of really kick-ass, girl power. It was wonderful to watch. It was particularly sexy. They would come in and just slay in these choreographed pentagram of death fight scenes. It was pretty impressive.” KindKidsGuyGirlFightingLeftFunWatchesWonderfulSceneHorseSexyAssKicksRidingImpressiveGirl PowerKick AssPentagrams Author:Douglas Booth
“If we were making a record in Kentucky, there might be some more elements that recall a time, a place, or a relationship. Recording for the BBC you enter into this strange and wonderful, but kind of sterile, place with which you have no personal history, and that's the Maida Vale Studios at BBC in London.” IfsKindMightRecordsWonderfulStrangeElementsStudiosLondonRecallsKentuckyPersonal History Author:Will Oldham
“Then little writings and recordings that thankfully continue to come up. I'm in this kind of wonderful, kind of awkward, off-putting, and strange position where there's nothing I want to do more than continue to make music, but the ways that I do things are not in tune with how I can do them commercially.” WayWantWritingKindLittlesI CanCan DoWonderfulPositionStrangeCome UpTunesAwkward Author:Will Oldham
“It's great for me to hear those different reactions because when I travel with a movie like this [World of Tommorow], it's very similar. You'll hear a line in one city get a big laugh, and then in another city, the same line kind of gets a gasp, and that's wonderful.” WorldKindDifferentBigsLinesCitiesLaughingWonderfulThis WorldReactions Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“I've found the best thing to do is to really be loving, kind, forgiving and compassionate with yourself. There are some wonderful practices for that which I talk about in Love For No Reason.” KindReasonFoundPracticeWonderfulForgivingBest ThingsThings To DoNo ReasonCompassionate Author:Marci Shimoff
“I always thought the piano scene was kind of unique to shoot because we were actually able to film with the playback of the actual song. And that was quite amazing because it almost made it easier - music is usually something that is added after filming has finished so to be able to shoot a scene with music was really wonderful.” KindMadeAbleFilmSongWonderfulEasierSceneMusic IsUniqueFinishedMade ItPiano Author:Mia Wasikowska
“it's important as a composer to sit in silence and imagine these complex musical worlds in your head, but it's also a wonderful experience to touch your music and to hear it and hear it in the room with you and to say, you can't have an entire orchestra there, but you'd kind of like to have the orchestra there.” WorldKindImportantRoomsSilenceImagineWonderfulComplexesMusicalComposerOrchestraWonderful Experience Author:Tod Machover
“And also, that's the kind of wonderful thing about film culture, is the interaction between films and who works on what, where they were before, and now what they're doing now, and that inevitably informs how people view a film.” PeopleKindFilmCultureViewsWonderfulInteractionWonderful ThingsBefore And Now Author:Anton Yelchin