Akin Quotes

(On filming the Iraqi war film Stop-Loss (2008) in Morocco): You felt like a monster. We were there in full gear, with these assault rifles, on what`s akin to their Christmas. We were barging into peoples` actual homes to shoot those scenes. I felt incredibly uncomfortable and ashamed at the time.

By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.

I think American films right now are suffering from an excess of scale. Lots of movies we`re seeing now are more akin to video games than stories about human life and relationships. Twelve-to-twenty-year-olds are maybe the largest economic force in the US movie business. I`m not a very nostalgic person - but I enjoy a good story.

I`m interested in people that don`t always do the right thing, its much more akin to what I know about life.

Producing is a thankless task akin to hotel management. Unfortunately there are not too many good hotel managers.

I`m more akin to football than I think anything else because that`s what I played in high school.

It`s funny. If I had plotted a course for my career, I would have done something more akin to what Alison Krauss does, ... She stays within the same field of bluegrass, and getting deeper and deeper into that well. And you create this expectation on the part of the audience.

It would be akin to having more than 100 drivers of a single bus. Right now we have a driver, and the driver`s been doing a good job,

There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

I think philosophers can do things akin to theoretical scientists, in that, having read about empirical data, they too can think of what hypotheses and theories might account for that data. So there`s a continuity between philosophy and science in that way.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

(Considering that a Pew Internet study in July found that three-quarters of online teens use IM, the second-most-common tool among this group for communicating with friends after the good old landline, a future of taking IM breaks at work instead of coffee breaks isn`t far-fetched, says Mary Madden, co-author of the more recent report. It`s akin to the idea that employees increasingly use their downtime to shop or check the news.) We`re the IM generation, ... They`re going to put our screen names on our tombstones.

Basically the only thing that can alter Haiti`s projection is to put it under some OAS or U.N. total supervision, something akin to a trusteeship.

The administration`s view is that the entire world, including every inch of U.S. territory, is akin to a battlefield and that, therefore, if the president decides that he wants to order an arrest or search, then warrants are not necessary. The real controversy is, is the United States of America a battlefield or not?

The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.