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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
- Nov 07, 2020
'Saw,' in many ways, was like my student film. The first crappy student film you don't really want people to see.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of joke that creating franchises is a lot like directing pilot episodes of TV series. You set a look and feel and kind of pass it on.
- Duck
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was fine with numbers, but it took me a longer time to grasp simple things like spellings.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.
- Mad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.
- Buffet
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2008, Barack Obama did get Democrats hyperventilating, whipped up to a creamy froth, while John McCain creaked ahead like a cranky granddad whom Republicans let move to the front of the buffet line, deferring to seniority, as they had in 1996, when Bob Dole turtled to the top of the ticket.
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- Nov 07, 2020