- Grammar School
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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
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
The two things I'm most excited about are self-driving cars and speech. Speech doesn't sound like that much, but it's one of those technologies with the potential to change everything. Steve Jobs didn't invent the touch screen. He just made it work very well, and that's changed everything.
- Early Years
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics because they like being Catholic.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the ecological circuitry of this planet, the ways in which materials like carbon or sulfur or phosphorous or nitrogen get cycled in ways that makes them available for our biology, the organisms that do the heavy lifting are bacteria.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't enjoy growing up. I was lonely. That's probably my base level to feel like that.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm gay, and I know a lot of very liberal straight people, and, of course, they're absolutely fine, but they still won't necessarily come and see a film like 'Weekend.'
- Honesty
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- Nov 07, 2020
People like a bit of honesty in films.
- Moonlight
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I made 'Weekend,' the idea that 'Moonlight' would win the Oscar would be like, Whaaaaat? Like, that's not going to happen.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like, throughout lots of my life, especially growing up, I felt powerless.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I can do a scene in one shot, it's in one shot. Most of my shots are pretty long. I think with 'Looking,' what we have in the first minute is a whole episode of a traditional TV show. I like to let things breathe; I like to let things have a certain tone.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went through a period of watching probably too many Bergman films in a row. I felt like I'd discovered the answer to what cinema should be.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Class is really interesting to me, maybe because I'm from England where there is a pretty hideous, deep-rooted obsession with class. I don't like the obsession with class, but it certainly interests me.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020