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Reading 'Moby-Dick' was really a sort of transformative literary experience for me.

— Chad Harbach

You just can't help but sort of think that your life and your career are going to go straight up, up, up.

— Tate Donovan

I asked my body if it was going to die or not from AIDS. And it said 'no.' I sort of paid…

— Edmund White

And, in some ways I like traveling, in other ways I'm sort of fed up by the whole notion.

— Joe Sacco

'SNL' after-parties are sort of like a time to celebrate your successes and drown your sorrows, depending on how the show went…

— Seth Meyers

I've sort of made up my mind that I have to do my career and I have to be a mother. These…

— Phoebe Snow

If I had to pick one song for me that sort of quintessentially summed me up, it would be 'Angel.' Without fail,…

— Sarah McLachlan

When I come home, I say I'm coming home to Dublin. When I'm in Dublin, I say I'm going home to New…

— Colum McCann

I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, go…

— Steve-O

One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of…

— Eden Riegel

We have the sort of beautiful older woman here in Paris. People like Loulou de la Falaise and Betty Catroux, all these…

— Carine Roitfeld

What I would love is a crossover between 'Royal Pains' and 'Burn Notice,' that we could be involved in some sort of…

— Paulo Costanzo

For years before I became a father, I would try to spend as much time as I could with my friends who…

— Nick Flynn

What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respected and…

— Sonny Rollins

I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of…

— Brian De Palma

It's true that the original idea was mine, but what you see today is the work of probably tens of thousands of…

— Jack Kilby

There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If…

— Kate Bernheimer

I used to work as a volunteer in a hospice, but I don't have any nursing skills or cooking skills or anything,…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I'm sort of of the belief that people kill themselves from the inside out. When they're unhappy with what they're doing, or…

— John Lydon

An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum.…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I knew from the start that I wanted my life to be about music. I taught myself the notes of the piano…

— Ella Henderson

You start to think in terms of making an album that might be greater than the sum of its parts. It's sort…

— Steve Forbert

The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an…

— Callum Keith Rennie

During shooting, you have the idea, like, of this certain dress on this actress, but it's not to fit, so you have…

— Wong Kar-wai

We went to L.A. as a family, with a sort of vision that we were going to 'make it,' whatever that meant.

— Summer Phoenix

Bluefin tuna is sort of like the cheetah of the ocean. It's the fastest fish. It's a warm-blooded fish. But it's got…

— Paul Watson

I've learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with.

— Jeremy Denk

There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.

— Ahmet Ertegun

I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.

— James Mercer

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get…

— Sarah Brightman

I think comedy, so much of it comes out of the strange sort of golden instant 'cause you don't know why it's…

— Alice Lowe

I'm sort of like the kid that kicks around in Vans, beat-up Converse, ripped jeans, and t-shirts.

— Michaela McManus

I didn't think it was my dream to be on Broadway; it just sort of became that, and then it just became…

— Jennifer Damiano

There are musicians who go through their lives sort of shedding their skins. For me, I've always felt backward-compatible to Version 1.0.

— Pat Metheny

I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.

— Ian Mckellen

George Clooney is actually a huge prankster. That's sort of his jam. I had no idea.

— Britt Robertson

I mean, not wanting to be flip about it, but even within a corporation, you get sort of cult-like behaviors sometimes.

— Jane Poynter

I think people imagine that your fame somehow sort of equates with how much you get paid.

— Jennifer Saunders

I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

— Tom Odell

I want to do some bigger films, so long as there's some sort of exciting creative element or a good filmmaker behind…

— Paul Dano