- 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.
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- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just like those little Viewmaster slides, there's a inherent magic that's captured in 3D that you can't get in drawn animation or in CG.
- Flying
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- Nov 07, 2020
Spaceflight, especially in the Mercury spacecraft, clearly wasn't going to be much like flying an airplane.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Orion capsule uses an escape system quite like that of the Apollo spacecraft in the 1960s and 70s: an 'escape tower' containing a solid-fuel rocket that will pull it up and away from Ares I in a pinch.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I can generate enough income, I'd like to get a castle, a historic castle that I can restore.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if there aren't any films like 'E.T.' anymore. I just feel that the industry has changed so much. There are so many outlets now.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know if I was so much of an outsider until after I started doing films. That put me on the outside. I grew up in Texas, and I wasn't the child of industry parents, and I didn't have a lot of friends in the industry or anything like that.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was like that for the first six months after 'E.T.' was in cinemas. I'd go out and get mobbed. I was a shy kid, and being approached by adults all the time just freaked me out.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
We cannot experimentally map out the brain. It's just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead there are 3,000 pathways like a city with 3,000 streets.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
- Miracles
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
- Profit
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- Nov 07, 2020