Typical Quotes
423 quotes by 390 authors
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Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell…
— Maurice Sendak
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I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.
— Anna Deavere Smith
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I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty…
— Emma Thompson
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I am a typical Italian; I love the clan. But I don't think about getting married.
— Gianni Versace
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I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether…
— Florence Welch
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I'm quite glad I never learned to play the guitar, because I think I'd write songs that were more classically structured. As it is, I've…
— Florence Welch
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I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.
— Michelle Williams
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It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness…
— A. N. Wilson
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A typical 'Larry King Live' is a pastiche whose absurdism defies parody. Wearing his trademark suspenders and purple shirts, he looks as if he's strapped…
— James Wolcott
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Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than…
— Martin Filler
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Being a typical teenager isn't easy. When you have autism, it can be extra difficult. We need more public awareness about these hurdles as well…
— Holly Robinson Peete
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If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a rejection…
— John Ralston Saul
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Now, now," my father said. "Let's just get the bags." This was typical. My father, the lone male in our estrogen-heavy household, had always dealt…
— Sarah Dessen
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But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the…
— Patricia Marx
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Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.
— Sharon Creech
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Once born into childlike faith, brimming with belief, typical people begin to lose their faith. Society mocks them. Their friends smirk. They come to change…
— Ted Dekker
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There is no such thing as education. The thing is merely a loose phrase for the passing on to others of whatever truth or virtue…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!
— Diana Wynne Jones
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I'm obsessively opposed to the typical.
— Lady Gaga
Who Wrote These Typical Quotes
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