Not to sound like a jerk, but Jane isn't really my type. Her hair's kinda disastrously curly and she mostly hangs out with guys. My type's a little girlier. And honestly, I don't even like my type of girl that much, let alone other types. Not that I'm asexual or something - I just find Romance Drama unbearable.
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Related Honestly, I don't even like my type of girl that much, let alone other types. Not that I'm asexual o... JOHN GREEN My fingers lightly trace her arm and I swear she presses closer to me. I'd love to kiss her right no... KATIE MCGARRY I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I got that... ALICIA SILVERSTONE I like all types of women. I accept them as they are when they come into my life... But I'm not ... NAYVADIUS CASH I don't feel like a dream girl, but I think it's really nice. I guess a part of me wishes I ... ALICIA SILVERSTONE A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminali... CHARLIE HUNNAM It's the type of day that happens. I can't worry about it. These types of days happen. You just have... DANIEL HAIGWOOD I think there must be probably different types of suicides. I'm not one of the self-hating ones. The... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE I'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood an... DWIGHT HENRY Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specia... M. J. ROSE I'm trying to bring a little bit of every type of sauce into one type of sound. Something that... POST MALONE In my opinion, there are two types of perfect. The first is the type that seems so obvious and intui... B.J. NOVAK She just needed to think about it. Today she had the 'emergency' session with her psychologist. Mayb... LIANE MORIARTY I'm the type of girl who smiles a lot. I'm the type of girl who is kind to everyone. I'm the type of... NANA ADJOA SAAM IRENE NYAME YE AGGREY-FYNN He says they're not his type, but I don't really get the concept of having a type. My type is girls.... NICOLA YOON I don't like any one race or look or type of guy. My tastes as far as looks go are very diverse.... SASHA GREY I like raunchiness, not like in a biker-chick sort of a way, but like the girl can't help it. Little... ANTON LAVEY I'd feel weird on a show where it was a bunch of dudes that are my type. I like sticking out a l... MATT MCGORRY My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look ... CAMERON RUSSELL He's just like my father that way-my father just adored my mother and let her do whatever she wa... JUNE CARTER CASH I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama. ADAM G. SEVANI Current relationship status?” Her voice cut like an arctic chill blowing through the room. �... JUS ACCARDO I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a... SHAWN FANNING I hadn't done a sex scene in like 10 years or something. Not particularly by design. It just hadn't ... ROB LOWE I kinda like to scare my sister, and usually she gets really mad at me for doing that. CAYDEN BOYD I already told you, you’re not my type.” “I thought you didn’t have a type.” �... SARAH MORGAN As a young girl, I definitely struggled with knowing what to do with my hair. I was just in a neighb... JILLIAN HERVEY My brother cleared his throat. "I wish she knew that I think she is the most hilarious person on Ear... MICHELLE HODKIN I struggled with self-esteem issues as a young girl, and it was not until my gymnastics career was c... DOMINIQUE DAWES I think there was too much of a coincidence to believe that I won't ever get to be with him again. I... BRANDI KNIGHT That's not the point," he said. "What kind of creep would I be if I let my girl carry something heav... RAINBOW ROWELL A lot of guys like to yell, scream and shout. I'm not that type of person. DEANDRE JACKSON Before the day my grandmother shared her treasured letters with me, I honestly wasn't much of a ... KRISTINA MCMORRIS I just took her heart away from her right away. I was doing the feints, trying to get her out of her... JAIME CLAMPITT She had nightmares as a little girl and she was told to just forget about (the sinking). It crushed ... JOAN RANDALL i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL I realize that I quite like this girl. It’s not just that she’s so pretty the words fly out of m... JODI PICOULT I think with me and the type of music that I'm trying to make, it's always going be soulful ... CHARLIE PUTH He's a good guy. I really like him. He likes to sling it and that's my type of quarterback. GEORGE WILLIAMS It's cool. There's some great quarterbacks on that list with John Elway and some other guys like Wal... MATT LEINART I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my paren... MARA WILSON For the first time in a long time, I drive with no music. I'm not happy-not happy about Jane and Mr.... JOHN GREEN Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I... PARKER POSEY That it should come to this,
But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,
So excellent a ki... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Beatrice loves her glamorous dresses and her hair being curly or big - like Mummy's - and I hate... PRINCESS EUGENIE OF YORK I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, ... LEONARDO DICAPRIO He's a very experienced and uncompromising midfielder, and I like having that type of player in my s... CHRIS MORRIS I don't think of my music in terms of a career. I just want to get it out there and do it. I'... BRYAN GREENBERG Of course, she could still walk away. She won't, he thought. She has to feel it, too. He said, " I'v... MAGGIE STIEFVATER My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and t... RYAN ADAMS Hillary Clinton bothers me a lot. I realized the other day that her thoughts sound a lot like Karl M... DICK ARMEY I really want to make this the last stop of my career. I don't want to be a vagabond, so to speak, a... 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TIFFANY TRUMP At South Carolina, I hung out mostly with my host and that was it. But all of Virginia's players hun... GAVIN SMITH Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbo... ADAM DEVINE I have a little girl myself and I keep and eye out like a hawk for guys like that. CHRIS COLEMAN I wish you were entwined with every little nicety of my work and my life and would love it all like ... PRIYANKA CHANDRA She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But... HARUKI MURAKAMI I try my best, but at the same time, I try not to let being out with someone affect my everyday life... KENDALL JENNER It was early in my career, and I had been seeing Mary, a shy, lonely, and physically collapsed you... BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK Im not trying to prove a point, ... I just want to get it out of my system, and I think I have the o... ANGEL CORDERO, JR. I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, ... LEONARDO DICAPRIO There's one scene where I took my t-shirt off. I was wearing a t-shirt and a hoodie, and I took ... BEN HARDY Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous gi... DODIE SMITH I think most of my heroes are not the traditional types. A guy I was fascinated with was Buster Keat... JEFFREY TAMBOR You see people you identify with, and you take pieces of people you like and shape who you are. Like... DAMON WAYANS, JR. Whenever my old girl would catch me with a new one, I'd tell her she was just a friend - but she was... JOSE GUTIERREZ I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. 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SARAH ALDERSON I love that 'Much Ado About Nothing,' passionate, smart fighting. I love fighting with guys,... MINDY KALING
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