- Never
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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
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean I certainly tell the Maria Goeppert-Mayer story and I’m happy that life isn’t like that. I’m glad there were trailblazers like her and Marie Curie.
- Pretending
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, I do have some maiden aunts that are not quite like the aunts in the book, but I definitely do have a couple of them, and a couple of old aunties.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for their entire literary environment and subject matter.
- Blessing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a blessing to be given a variety of roles to what I call an iconic action actor like myself.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to stay within the context of the character's background. If he's a cop, I have to make sure the audience is convinced that this person, a cop, can do only so much without a gun.
- Choreograph
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- Nov 07, 2020
An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020