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Wickedness is a kind of voluntary frenzy, and a chosen distraction.

Will it/won't it be back kind of game is never fun but I've been doing it for over 10 years and it's the name of the game really. As an actress, you never know what next year's going to bring, whether you're doing films or seasons for TV. It's just the way it is. You can let it drive you crazy, or you cannot. I choose not to let it bother me too much and just always hope for the best.

...will you be so kind as to provide me with a few places where I might look for a murderer?" "The mirror's a great place to start

Will you be clever at the expense of others, or will you be kind?

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor.

With a director it's all about the work; I'd work with a great director over - you know, I'm not the kind of actor who that doesn't go, 'I want to play this role.' It's more like, 'I want to work with this director,' regardless of what the role is because if it's a good director, you'll probably find a good role because it's a decent film. But a mediocre director will always make a mediocre movie.

With acting, you see some of the kids are literally just off the street, untrained, and they are great. And others are off the street, untrained, and kind of horrible.

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.

with all prayer (Eph. 6:18)" All sorts of prayer- public, private, mental, vocal. Do not be diligent in one kind of prayer and negligent in others... let us use all.

With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here.

With any kind of artistic thing, it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all confidence. That's why I'm terrible with down time.

Wind power is a green mirage of the worst kind.

Within a social structure, a familial structure, or a cultural structure of various kinds, there is a substitute for actual freedom. I mean, actual freedom is a very abstract notion; we have no idea what it means, except within a context - freedom to do what? So within these social structures, freedom becomes defined as power, your ability to make choices, and the power relationship within a family, any family.

Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Within one's own family money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything. There are all kinds of other things that we are not supposed to sell - political influence being one of them. We too rarely have public conversations about the common sense of money. We too rarely talk about the human cost of putting some of these economic measures into effect.

With every year, I always try and learn something new and grow gracefully, and that's just kind of my rule for every year.

With John Wick we wanted to do something like that. So rather than punching, kicks - and for the kind of way we wanted to shoot it, which is longer takes - our initial instinct was let's go with a throwing or grappling arm.

With laissez-faire and price atomic, ecology's uneconomic, But with another kind of logic economy's unecologic.

With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.

With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of all went downhill from there! The same with the yoyos! One kid brought a yoyo one day and people started getting them. I just kept at it and found that I really loved it.

With respect to the ZPA, what kind of digit develops depends on how close the digit is to the source of Sonic hedgehog.

With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope that at time it will be the kind of conscription that was put in at the end of the Vietnam War. And that is, everybody is equally liable to be called to serve the nation in time of conflict.

With Ricky Gervais, it's all shades of wrong, it's my kind of humor.

With some bands, there's a fear that if people do other things, the band is going to change and not hold it together. That's kind of sad; if you love someone, set them free, right?

With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickly.

With truths of a certain kind, it is not enough to make them appear convincing: one must also make them felt. Of such kind are moral truths.

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western.

Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.

Woman, you are a thousand kinds of fool.

Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new.

Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.

Women are great. When they dig you, there's nothing they won't do. That kind of loyalty is hard to find - unless you've got a good dog.

Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.

Without a plan your kind of just like a dog chasing it's tail, your not getting anywhere.

Without imagination of the one kind or of the other, mortal existence is indeed a dreary and prosaic business... Illumined by the imagination, our life, whatever its defeats - is a never-ending unforeseen strangeness and adventure and mystery.

Words are very much my thing. I'm very picky and choosy with them. So, I kind of edit myself to the point of, almost stumping myself, sometimes.

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

Work doesn't have to be great in order to dignify it as work. Work just is. It's quite value-neutral. The issue is about what kinds of power and control you have at work as a human being. That's the commonality. It's not necessarily what the task is.

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.

Working with younger artists kind of tests your judgment. You're not always right, but when you are, it's exciting.

Working hard becomes a habit, a serious kind of fun.

Would I rather be right, or would I rather be kind?

Word-carpentry is like any other kind of carpentry: you must join your sentences smoothly.

Writers don't seem to benefit much by the advance of science, although they thrive on superstitions of all kinds.

Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.

Writing is a conversation, to me. The best kind. You can't get interrupted.

Writing isn't just on the page; it's voices in the reader's head. Read what you write out loud to someone-anyone-and you will catch all kinds of things.