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I don't write for any particular kind of person. -- Mary Wesley
I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer. -- Jill Lepore
My appearance gave me access to a particular kind of world and I'm really grateful for it. -- Natalia Vodianova
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories. -- Nell Freudenberger
I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer - a particular kind of prayer in classrooms. -- Ken Buck
But I think that's a particular kind of experience involving a certain immediacy between you and the canvass, you and the particular kind of experience of that particular moment. -- Donald Judd
George Washington participated as a vestryman in his local congregation, but that didn't really imply any particular kind of religious belief. This was necessary in order to participate in the society. -- Matthew Stewart
In any genre you're working in, you can always find a way to tell a particular kind of story. I love fantasy; I love science fiction. I love all kinds of fiction, in fact. -- Garth Nix
There's a particular kind of single woman whose relationship with her dog has a level of intensity and affection that may be both the cause and the result of her singleness. For a long time, I was that woman. -- Meghan Daum
What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of person who resolves problems with force of thought and feeling instead of with the force of arms. -- Brendan Myers
I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally I'll write one myself if I can summon up the energy. -- Peter Weir
Fiction is a particular kind of rhetoric, a way of thinking that I think can be useful in your life. It asks you to image the world through someone else's eyes, and it allows you to try to empathize with situations that you haven't actually experienced. -- Dan Chaon
Prior to Saving Private Ryan I never worked with men. I was always working with some babe, and it was always about falling in love, and it just got turned around. I'm not looking for any particular kind of story. I wait until it comes across my desk. -- Tom Hanks
I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have. -- Stephen Fry
The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!' -- John Hench
Something/Anything?' was kind of a different record, since I'm playing everything myself. A lot of the songs on there have a particular kind of instrumentation that is much like a guitar quartet, and in some ways, it's an exceptional song on that record because so much of the writing on 'Something/Anything?' is piano-oriented. -- Todd Rundgren
Writing for children is my... that's my medium, you know, and the medium is the picture book, which is a very particular kind of book. I try to give children what I would give anybody, you know. I become interested in something. I find something fascinating. It has to fascinate me, and then I want to give it to them. -- Mordicai Gerstein
I was too shy, I think, to sing publicly. It takes a particular kind of person. And when I was young, I was not that person. In the first instance, when a record company said to me, do you want to try and make your record, my first reaction was, no, I'm not worthy - I couldn't possibly, and so on and so forth. -- Hugh Laurie
Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding. -- Iris Murdoch
RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue. -- Ambrose Bierce
I like the digressive kind of traveling, where there's not a particular, set, goal. -- William Least Heat-Moon
Envy is never general, but always very particular - at least envy of the kind one feels strongly. -- Joseph Epstein
Every age has a kind of universal genius, which inclines those that live in it to some particular studies. -- John Dryden
The particular refugee camp we were in, they were hungry for play, they were hungry for any kind of normalcy. -- Connie Sellecca
I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more. -- Rob Zombie
All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling. -- Margaret Fuller
Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters. -- Tarthang Tulku
The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought. -- Henry Steele Commager
The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They've never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it. -- Noam Chomsky
I believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography. -- Marguerite Yourcenar
The GOP establishment, in particular, is facing a pick-your-poison kind of decision. Many establishment Republicans dislike [Ted] Cruz personally. He has no Senate endorsements. -- Mara Liasson
Poetry colors beings, objects, landscapes and sensations with a kind of new and particular light, which is in fact that of the poet's emotions. -- Anne Hebert
To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing. -- Sacha Baron Cohen
In class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of class. -- Mao Zedong
I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out. -- Ruskin Bond
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do. -- Jason Aldean
The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts. -- Malcolm Gladwell
There's something very particular about the kind of rage you feel when you're alone in a practice room by yourself, unable to master a simple thing like a rudiment. -- Damien Chazelle
"Tiger is a natural kind" and "Tiger is a historical particular" are incompatible with each other, and evolutionary biology provides a reason for favoring the latter over the former. -- Elliott Sober
I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious. -- Barbra Streisand
I like being able to do anything. I think that's healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work. -- Dave McKean
Lansens is a willing storyteller.... As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be transported--who might sit at her knee, the hearth. -- Noah Richler
There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man -- but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
I'm pleased it turned out the way that it did, because I know lots of other people who did fantastic work and did not see this particular kind of recognition [like Emmy]. -- Sterling K. Brown
Writing is a particular kind of frustration, which is why when I was making the structure for the novel I visualized it for myself with a color-coded board so I could see it. -- Rebecca Miller

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