- Think
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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids' books, it's like 5 percent. Which means that the parents, the ones that aren't going into stores now, they're no longer buying books for their kids, which is not great.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.
- Big Fan
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a big fan of patterns. I like the unexpected.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd.
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like the character I played in 'Jekyll', we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't much like Las Vegas. The noise of the place and the whole 24-hour, 'let's play the slot machines all night' culture of the place just left me cold.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every now and then, markets behave like schoolchildren. They overreact, they run around like crazy.
- Guess
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.
- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to write a pretty half and half split of, like, slow, morose things and then sort of more upbeat stuff.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually.
- Behaved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always found the rhetoric of mainstream civil rights leaders and organizations to be far too timid, accommodationist, and gradualist. It always seemed to me that they behaved like meek and gentle supplicants begging the oppressor for a few crumbs of justice, for a few molecules of citizenship rights.
- Footballer
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- Nov 07, 2020