- I Am
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- 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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like other conflict-affected regions, Africa continues to see religious, ethnic, and politically motivated conflicts. Extremist violence is now entrenched in several parts of the world. Armed conflicts are leading to protracted refugee crises to the scale that has not been seen since World War II.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.
- Conceiving
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome,' etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started realizing I was committing myself to potentially endless series.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
- Nov 07, 2020
In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
There were many times eating ramen noodles and sitting on a friend's couch watching ESPN where I was like, 'This is not what I thought California was going to be like. I thought it was going to be pools and cocktails with umbrellas in them and Maseratis, but this ain't it.'
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like so many others, my military career was anchored by a calling to give back to a country that had given me so much.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been slashed, speared, elbowed, board-checked, butt-ended, and hit on the head as much as anyone. I just like to keep the ledger balanced.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to like the characters you play.
- Nov 07, 2020
The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.
- Army
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- Nov 07, 2020
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020