- Nov 07, 2020
Like Quotes
Quotes on what people like and why.
These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like allegory.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Also, there is a way I like to lead my life, which would adhere to certain norms. Anything that goes beyond that is not my purview.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.
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- Nov 07, 2020
All of my friends are really good dancers, which was initially why I never danced - we'd go out, and they would kill it, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I'm just gonna sit at the bar.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can realize what it's like. I mean, you have to be there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chaplin was my idol. I remember watching those movies at this little theater in Woodstock, N.Y., when I was probably 6 and laughing so hard at the surprises, like Keaton suddenly being dragged by a streetcar.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I turned down 'American Gigolo.' There are many films - like 'Ghostbusters' - that I turned down... The first one I did was 'Foul Play' with Goldie Hawn, but I turned down 'Animal House' - I turned that down.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not like I am working with the great innovators of all time, but at the same time, they are my friends.
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- Nov 07, 2020