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.
'Kraken' is set in London and has a lot of London riffs, but I think it's more like slightly dreamlike, slightly abstract London. It's London as a kind of fantasy kingdom.
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Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
There's plenty of stuff that I don't feel dissident about: I really like tea, I don't have any problem with that. I like lots of paintings.
Also, there is a way I like to lead my life, which would adhere to certain norms. Anything that goes beyond that is not my purview.
I like the continuity of singing my lines together instead of going line by line.
If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.
All of my friends are really good dancers, which was initially why I never danced - we'd go out, and they would kill it, and I'd be like, 'Yeah, I'm just gonna sit at the bar.'
When I read a book, I like to be surprised. I don't want to read the same genre formula that I've read a hundred times before.
The first thing that happens is that you're overwhelmed by so much attention. It's just so unnatural. Only people who've been in that position can realize what it's like. I mean, you have to be there.
Chaplin was my idol. I remember watching those movies at this little theater in Woodstock, N.Y., when I was probably 6 and laughing so hard at the surprises, like Keaton suddenly being dragged by a streetcar.
I turned down 'American Gigolo.' There are many films - like 'Ghostbusters' - that I turned down... The first one I did was 'Foul Play' with Goldie Hawn, but I turned down 'Animal House' - I turned that down.
It's not like I am working with the great innovators of all time, but at the same time, they are my friends.
I like Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole and Dean Martin, who was my favorite, you know.
I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.
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