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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
Coming from a little suburban town, I wasn't a hip city kid. I was quite the opposite, really. Songs like 'Saturday's Kids' rang a bell for kids all over the country. That song was about the kids I grew up with.
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When I'm dead, I wanna leave a body of work, like authors or great painters do.
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I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it.
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There is a shy side to me that evaporates when I play on stage, and I like that. I think it's another facet of my character, and I need to do that.
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I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.
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So with 'There Will Be Blood,' I didn't even really feel like I was adapting a book. I was just desperate to find stuff to write.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific writing.
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The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.
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Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions.
- Nov 07, 2020
Science fiction is about worlds you don't know and worlds you can create, like in 'Avatar'.
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