People can sort of put it off, and it’s not confronting you day-to-day in an immediate sort of way. The consequence of inaction can be enormous, but I think it’s one of those issues where...

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of ‘me’ storytelling.

Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.

I find standard American the hardest. It really fits in a different place in your mouth. Southern, I find the easiest. If you talk to a dialect coach and you get sort of technical, where...

We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways – you know minor ways and major ways – like what you’ve just encountered which isn’t censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in...

You’re just sort of searching for this ‘thing’ and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don’t. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you’re improvising, at least the way I play, I’m trying...

I know how long it takes me to draw a page, how long it takes me to complete a project, how long I can work before my hand gives out, that sort of thing.

I always wondered what hearing one’s own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.

Being the 8th out of 10 kids, and being the one that stayed in trouble, I sort of became a momma’s boy.

Persuasion is clearly a sort of demonstration, since we are most fully persuaded when we consider a thing to have been demonstrated.

I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my father’s frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

I do reinvent old hits of mine and sort of give them a new life.

‘The Producers’ is a sort of a once in a lifetime kind of phenomenon, and I was grateful to be a part of it.

I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.

When I was in the California legislature in the ’80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on...

I have to get a licence to drive a motorcycle to protect myself and the people around me. I am adamant there should be some sort of licensing required to have children.

No, I don’t suppose I’m so much a collector sort of person.

It’s sort of my job to feel good.

I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out… Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of...

When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn’t play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

These were all middle-class kids from literary backgrounds, joining this sort of train going by, this pop train, jumping on. Whereas the rest of the rock scene, you’ll find that there’s mostly working-class people.

Certainly in the Capitol you do get moments were you sort of take a deep breath and think of all the historic figures who have been in that building, like Abraham Lincoln, who have stood...

In high school, I was sort of friends with the geeks and friends with the socials and everything else and not solidly in one camp. I’ve always lived on the borders.

I’m certainly not a person who spends their every waking moment soaking themselves in signs and signals of the sort that cult studies people study; and it’s partly, I suppose, because some of those signs...

Duncan Sheik and I are trucking along on ‘American Psycho,’ which is sort of the anti-Superman, you know? But it’s a lot of fun, too, in a much, much darker way, obviously.

When it sort of finally sets in that you’re not going to be doing that anymore… it’s disappointing.

Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone’s satisfaction.

It’s sort of fun. If someone’s eyeballing you, it makes you feel good.

Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn’t in the script. It was something that I came up with.

I might have some sort of personality disorder. I might not have proper filters; it might be some kind of version of Asperger’s meets Tourettes meets prose.

Country music has always sort of been country music.

When I was four, I just wanted to drive, I collected toy cars. Where does that sort of thing come from? In hindsight you go, ‘Oh, liked it because of this.’ Maybe it’s just the...

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort...

Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. It’s not really anything; it’s just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed...

I think there’s a part of us that fantasizes about having some sort of super power. If I could have one, it would definitely be teleportation!

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

‘Gatekeeper’ was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end...

Then I started listenin’ a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin’. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in.

Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks.

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

There’s editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production that just sort of take up the normal downtime that you would have as an actor. So there’s not...

I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn’t know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.

If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false.

Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that’s the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at.

I would sing to my Beanie Babies, and I sort of created this alternate universe where I was famous, and there were thousands of people that I was singing to.

In a weird way, the drama behind the stage was sort of keeping ‘Community’ on people’s minds.

What happens often – although I’m not particularly a victim of this sort of thing – is that somebody will make a quote, or invent a remark and it gets printed, ends up on the...