Type Quotes - Page 36

• I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.

  Zadie Smith

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  "In Essays, Author Zadie Smith Reveals Her Process". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. November 11, 2009.

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• That term's definitely got a negative aura to it, because people think a diva is somebody with an attitude who demands things all the time. Of course there is that type of diva, but my idea of a diva has always been a singer - whether male or female - who gets on that stage and captivates you with their presence and their voice.

  Jordin Sparks

  Attitude, Thinking, Ideas

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• In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Tragedy, Stories

  The Book Reporter Interview, www.bookreporter.com. September 28, 2001.

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• The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

  Herbert Spencer

  Nature, Thinking, Government

  'Essays' (1891) vol. 3 'The Americans'

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• I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.

  Octavia Spencer

  School, Law, Gone

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• Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.

  Steven Spielberg

  Hollywood, Squeezing, Budgets

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• Certain characters, mostly heroes, have to be the straight silent type; that is part of the make-up.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Hero, Character, Silent

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• I'm not an aging gracefully type. But I do believe in aging with grace.

  Danielle Steel

  Believe, Grace, Aging

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• I also like to eat very much, so I like all different types of foods.

  Peter Steele

  Different

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• I find that different types of music are good for certain activities.

  Peter Steele

  Different, Certain, Activity

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• I did two commercials, one for Porsche, but I was definitely not the type of child one would cast in a commercial or any TV that you'd typically go out for as a young kid. I wasn't the type of kid who would be in stuff that kids watch. I wasn't cutesy.

  Kristen Stewart

  Children, Kids, Two

  "Woman on the Verge". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.wmagazine.com. September 1, 2011.

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• I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.

  Angie Stone

  Home, Men, Doors

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• Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'

  Elaine Stritch

  Age, Actresses, Certain

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• Companies have long gathered data to break down their customer base into specific segments. Now political parties have become adept at micro-targeting, too, using data on shopping habits, leisure activities, voting histories, charity donations, and so on, in order to pinpoint likely supporters and the type of appeal most likely to win them over.

  James Surowiecki

  Party, Winning, Leisure Activities

  "Calculating Campaigns". www.newyorker.com. September 24, 2012.

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• Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

  Taylor Swift

  Tests, Study, Persons

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• I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

  Taylor Swift

  Kind, Cases, Situation

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• You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn't happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society.

  Matt Taibbi

  Military, Night, Russia

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• What we do today has nothing to do with capitalism or socialism. It is a crony type of system that transfers money to the coffers of bureaucrats.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Today, Socialism, Cronies

  "Chaos Is Good for You". Interview with Linda Geddes, www.slate.com. December 2, 2012.

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• Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

  Serj Tankian

  Our Society, Injustice, Awareness

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 'Elect the Dead' is a rock record that takes you on a journey with different types of genres integrated, different lyrical themes digested, and many fun and colorful moments to enjoy.

  Serj Tankian

  Fun, Journey, Rocks

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• I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that.

  Serj Tankian

  Writing, Goal, Different

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• If you allow for a purely capitalistic society, without any type of regulation at all, you will get one monopoly that will eat all of the smaller fish and own everything, and then you'll have zero capitalism, zero competition - it would just be one giant company.

  Serj Tankian

  Zero, Competition, Giants

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The best way to do that is to pick up a new instrument or an instrument that you don't typically write on and see where it takes you. Whether it's using an acoustic guitar, or piano, or electronics as tools, all of these lead to creating different types of songs and I used all of these methods for this record.

  Serj Tankian

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Mixing, Watches, Stories

  Interview with Michaela Latham, www.bbc.co.uk. October 06, 2003.

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