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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
I'm not the next J. K. Rowling. We've got one already. It's flattering to be compared to her. I like her books and loved the first three particularly, but apart from the fact that they've got young boys as heroes, they're very different.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know how to box so I would have looked like a complete street fighter actually, but what we did have to do was pick up some sides and then just memorize them within two days and go there and audition.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didn't know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it.
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I just don't know anything about jazz, really. I've never really listened to it, but I'd definitely like to discover more about it.
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I really like Billie Holiday's husky voice, and I'd definitely like to find out more about her.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to hang out with my friends, go to the theatre, watch DVDs, read, play with my niece.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Jennifer Lopez, Gwen Stefani, and Victoria Beckham all have an aesthetic that I admire, but I also love extreme risk takers like Miley Cyrus and Rihanna.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The laws of literature, like the laws of gossip, usually demand exaggeration, decontextualization, a heightened or minimalized reality, and a lot more shape and order and impact than everyday life.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, a nonpracticing Jew from Delaware, had married a non-practicing Protestant in California. Sometimes, certainly not always, Jew + Protestant = Unitarian, and that is what we were - 'Jewnitarians,' as I like to say.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's not like I have media out there when I'm training. I'm training the same. I'm putting in the same work.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A few years after I finished skating, someone asked where my medals were. I'm like, 'In a suitcase somewhere.' Now they're nicely displayed in an ice rink, but medals don't really mean that much. It's the experience, the story of the skating, the love.
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- Nov 07, 2020