Like Something Quotes

• I try to take interest in whatever comes my way. Another aspect of this is [that] if at the beginning it seems like something I don't want to do, I ask myself why I don't want to do this and why I feel this way. It's perhaps rooted in the fact that I'm trying to avoid something.

  Takashi Miike

  Trying, Want, Way

  "Audition director Takashi Miike wishes he could make Ted movies". Interview with Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. October 10, 2015.

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• The general systems of money management today require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a funny business because on a net basis, the whole investment management business together gives no value added to all buyers combined. That's the way it has to work. Mutual funds charge two percent per year and then brokers switch people between funds, costing another three to four percentage points. The poor guy in the general public is getting a terrible product from the professionals.

  John C. Bogle

  Years, Two, People

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• I'm just glad to get off three-hundred ninety-nine (career home runs). It sounds like something you'd purchase at a discount store.

  Dave Winfield

  Running, Home, Careers

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• You can't help but change when you have a kid, and for me it was just a sense of I didn't feel like anything was missing in my life and it wasn't. It all came at just the right time, and now if I am absent from my son, I do feel like something is missing.

  Chris Pratt

  Kids, Son, Missing

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• One of the challenges was to make a cinematic movie about literally talking heads and to try to make it feel like something you want to see in a theater.

  Morgan Neville

  Talking, Challenges, Trying

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• A novel is what you dream in your night sleep. A novel is
  not waking thoughts although it is written and thought
  with waking thoughts. But really a novel goes as
  dreams go in sleeping at night and some dreams are like
  anything and some dreams are like something and some
  dreams change and some dreams are quiet and some dreams
  are not. And some dreams are just what any one would
  do only a little different always just a little
  different and that is what a novel is.

  Gertrude Stein

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Gertrude Stein (1974). “How Writing Is Written”

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• I don't love large groups of men. I've always felt like something terrible could happen when there were no women. If there are women around, it feels like there's less of a chance that anyone will get stabbed.

  Josh Radnor

  Men, Groups, Chance

  Source: collider.com

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• Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do.

  Lisa Leslie

  Girl, Sports, Boys

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• What we know for sure is that metaphor is the raw uranium of poetry, and that an urge to say that one thing is like something else is one of the earliest markers of the poetic spirit, the nascent poet.

  Tony Hoagland

  Spirit, Poetic, Metaphor

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• I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship...As an engineer, I revolt against this.

  Alec Issigonis

  America, Car, Looks

  "Alec Issigonis Dies; Auto Designer, 81, Introduced the Mini" by Constance L. Hays, www.nytimes.com. 1988.

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• When you don't like something the words come more readily.

  Clement Greenberg

  1991 Aged 82, on the relative ease of negative criticism over positive. In the NewYork Times, 3 Oct.

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• And Venus must be hot if the history of the solar system is not the history of no change for billions of years. And Venus was found hot, not room temperature as was thought until 1959. In 1961 it was detected with radio means that it is like something like 600 Farenheit and Mariner 2 was sent out to find out true or not true? It was found that even more it is full 800 [degrees Farenheit].

  Immanuel Velikovsky

  Mean, Years, Degrees

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• If your audience doesn't like something, you should think to yourself, "Well, why don't they like something? Is there something wrong here?" And, if they like something, you should think to yourself, "Why do they like it? What am I doing right here?," and deal with those issues.

  David Shore

  Thinking, Issues, Should

  Source: collider.com

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• If you do or don't like something it's because of that thing and not because it has the right politics behind them or the right company or the right connections. It's really just about the thing itself.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Connections, Company, Behinds

  "Exclusive Interview: Joseph Gordon-Levitt on (500) DAYS OF SUMMER". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. July 16, 2009.

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• Black people loving and losing is something we don’t see enough of. We’re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something funny or something violent. And you know what? Sometimes we die of breast cancer or a broken heart. Things happen that are just not being explored cinematically. It’s time we reinvigorated that type of film.

  Ava DuVernay

  Cancer, Heart, People

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• For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.

  Sampha

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Interview with Ruth Saxelby, pitchfork.com. July 8, 2013.

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• Life is like the stock market. Some days you're up. Some days you're down. And some days you feel like something the bull left behind.

  Paula Wall

  Funny, Life Is Like, Bulls

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• Sometimes an actor doesn't sell an idea 100 percent. It just sounds like something that's coming out of their head. You can hear the gears whirring and they're trying to think of what the smart approach is to getting a line across.

  David Gordon Green

  Smart, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with George Ducker, believermag.com. November 1, 2006.

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• The way Woody Allen directs, there isn't a lot of direction. He kind of might give a few gentle suggestions, but he really says right from the first day, "Just make it sound natural, and if you don't like something, put it in your own words." And [Woody Allen] gives you a lot of freedom and just very polite.

  Owen Wilson

  Giving, Sound, Suggestions

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• To evoke the classic period of Italian cinema in a little film seemed like a great, fun thing to do. I had relations to that period. I had known Fellini and I had known Antonioni. I had made a movie with Antonioni and I had visited Fellini in his studios. So, it seemed like something worthwhile doing. You bring yourself to that mythical cinema.

  Wim Wenders

  Fun, Italian, Littles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like something with 'vice' in it.

  Ted Turner

  Vices, Internet, Free Speech

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• You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.

  Richard Curtis

  Law, Government, Illegal

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• The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the name of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality. Drawing down like something trying to preserve heat. In time to wink out forever.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Reality, Drawing, Color

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.75, Vintage

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• I feel like something important has happened to me. Is this possible?

  David Mitchell

  Important, Atlas, Feels

  "Fictional character: Isaac Sachs". "Cloud Atlas", www.imdb.com. September 8, 2012.

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• I feel like something has changed for me, but it’s a new change, so it’s going to be hard for me to describe. Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don’t feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don’t feel scared to have an idea and express it. I feel giddy about it because it’s a complete transformation. It’s like I’ve found my voice.

  Michelle Williams

  Voice, Self, Ideas

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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