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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 still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never academically driven in English, but, again, Tom Waits is a perfect example of an influence. He writes so immaculately and paints so perfectly a world and the characters within it. There are writers like that who are my influences: vivid and gifted storytellers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Biggest musical influences would be people like Nina Simone and Tom Waits. A huge amount of writers like Leslie Feist and Paul Simon.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tried to avoid anything that caused me frustration or grief or duress. I played FarmVille and procrastinated like all teenagers.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to almost not look forward to recording, because it was like, 'Okay, what am I going to have to sacrifice?'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't even have that many close LGBT friends or anything like that, but I suppose it was growing up and becoming aware of how you are in a cultural landscape that is blatantly homophobic... you turn around and say, 'Why did I grow up in a homophobic place? Why did I grow up in a misogynistic place?'
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a rural upbringing by the seaside. A real quiet place surrounded by fields. I had to travel into town for school and stuff like that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It sounds like I'm joking when I say it, but when I wrote 'Take Me To Church' and a lot of these things, I didn't think they would be hits. I thought I was writing for a potentially smaller audience.
- Nov 07, 2020
In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not every anti-Semite is Joseph Goebbels. You can not like Jews much and be no great harm to them.
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- Nov 07, 2020