- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Loved Quotes
The people and things that stayed with us.
These loved quotes trace what people held onto growing up, from a teenager's musical influences to a childhood show watched over family dinners. A few mention loving a sport picked up early in life and never really put down. Related picks appear in our Like quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always liked Nat King Cole. I always wanted to go my own way, but I always favoured other singers like Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughn, Ella Fitzgerald - I loved Ella Fitzgerald. There are so many of them. Nina Simone was one of my favourites - Johnny Mathis.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always loved music. I liked to go to church because I liked to sing the hymns.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Return To Nim's Island', I was so honored to be asked to play the role of Nim because I loved the original film, the 2008 film 'Nim's Island.'
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved Japan. I used to read a lot about it when I was a child. And I always wanted to go. And it was delightful. I absolutely loved it. What a smashing place.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a children's book by Anthony Browne called 'The Tunnel' that I've always loved.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists - Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pretty much my whole life, I've been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. I'd go out with a board under my arm and think, 'I can't do that in Cranhill.'
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. '30 for 30' had a big impact because I loved how that was about finding, empowering and working with these incredible directors, and I thought the same thing could work for writers.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved airplanes and flight. The space program was really important to me as a kid. I still have a photo of Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon in my living room.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always loved asking everybody when I arrived in England, from the drivers who picked me up to the people at the hotel to people I met when I was walking in the park, almost everyone at some point would say, 'Everyone loves Ant & Dec!' From eight to 80.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020