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• If I wasn't an actor? Hmm, I'd probably be a serial killer. I'm just so damn likeable, no one would ever suspect me.

  Zach Braff

  Serial Killer, Actors, Killers

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• The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren't any. Most of the writers are likeable frauds. Some are unlikable frauds.

  R. A. Lafferty

  Writing, Stories, Want

  "It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs". Book by R. A. Lafferty, 1995.

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• A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases if they like you, so you should aspire to both. You’ll know that you’re likeable when you can communicate freely, casually, and comfortably with people.

  Guy Kawasaki

  People, Personality, Overcoming

  FaceBook post by Guy Kawasaki from Feb 18, 2014

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• The individual attributes of warmth and competence are often perceived to be negatively correlated. That doesn't mean they actually are, but that's how people perceive the world. So, cruel people, those who gave negative book reviews, for instance, were seen as less likeable but as more intelligent.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Book, Mean, Intelligent

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• You have to have faith that if you want people to like your brand, you have to do likeable things. There has to be some degree of trust that, if you're an enjoyable brand, people will want to spend time with you.

  Jeff Chapman

  Business, People, Degrees

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• I have always liked kind of outsider characters. In the movies I grew up liking, you had more complicated characters. I don't mean that in a way that makes us better or anything. I just seem to like characters who don't really fit into. You always hear that from the studio: "You have to be able to root for them, they have to be likeable, and the audience has to be able to see themselves in the characters." I feel that's not necessarily true. As long as the character has some type of goal or outlook on the world, or perspective, you can follow that story.

  Jody Hill

  Character, Mean, Long

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one.

  John Lydon

  Perfect, Care, Embodiment

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• Bankers are likeable rascals. Now that we are all wise to 'em, it's been shown that they don't know any more about finances than the rest of us know about our businesses... which has proved to be nothing.

  Will Rogers

  Wise, Business, Bankers

  Will Rogers (1979). “Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Hoover years, 1931-1933”, Will Rogers Heritage Trust

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• I don't try to intellectualize characters too much. But I always think of the audience. I always make sure that my characters are likeable.

  Paula Patton

  Character, Thinking, Trying

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• It's one thing to be this 'tough chick,' but you also have to be likeable.

  Lauren Lee Smith

  Tough, Chicks, One Thing

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• Take up giving-away as a hobby while you are young, and you will have a happy life. What is more, because you do so many thoughtful things on impulse, you will develop a lively and interesting personality- gracious, friendly, and likeable.

  David Dunn

  Happy Life, Thoughtful, Giving

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• [Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.

  Willa Cather

  Boys, Men, Hands

  Willa Cather (1970). “The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902”, p.151, U of Nebraska Press

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• Preachers who talk about everything but the reality of Hell, are likeable betrayers of the Gospel.

  Ray Comfort

  Reality, Hell, Preacher

  FaceBook post by Ray Comfort from Jul 09, 2015

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• Usually I'm trying to turn something around or turn it inside out and see what's underneath. I know that probably sounds incredibly vague but I never set out to be likeable or funny or anything like that. I'm just trying to tell the story in the best way that I can and serve the writer because it's really about the writer.

  Mary-Louise Parker

  Trying, Sound, Stories

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• I try to make all of my roles likeable in some way.

  Adam Brody

  Trying, Roles, Way

  "Adam Brody Makes Some Winsome Wagers". Interview with Alice Greenberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 20, 2012.

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• The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Weakness, Firsts

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.50, New Directions Publishing

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• My dad's so likeable, you wouldn't feel in competition with him. If any boyfriends have ever felt that, they're long gone.

  Julia Sawalha

  Dad, Long, Competition

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• It's so much easier to make a movie about someone who is so likeable that you just want to get out of the way.

  Errol Morris

  Want, Way, Easier

  Source: collider.com

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• I've made the decision to adhere to three general truths when it comes to my novels: There will be a love-story element to the story, the novel will be set in eastern North Carolina, and the characters will be likeable. Then, I make each novel unique through differences in voice, perspective, age and personalities of the characters, and of course, plot.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Character, Unique, Voice

  Source: www.cliffsnotes.com

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• My definition of likeable may be different from other people's. That's not traditional likeable. Sympathy is a different thing [to define it].

  Paul Giamatti

  People, Different, May

  Source: collider.com

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• It's an interesting arc. You start with a character [Doctor Strange] who's likeable and charming but very arrogant and distant. He's funny but you can see there are massive holes in his life. It's a very painful transition and all that he becomes is tested so quickly and violently.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Character, Doctors, Interesting

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• When I'm writing about complicated subjects, it usually involves a world. It could be the world of Scientology or the world of Al Qaeda, or the world of counter-terrorism.I look for emblematic beasts of burden - what I call "donkeys" - who can carry the reader through this world. They serve a different purpose. Donkeys are not especially interesting or likeable, but they are serviceable. They will take you into this world. The distinction I'm trying to make is: It's not about them. It's about the world.

  Lawrence Wright

  Writing, Interesting, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.

  Germaine Greer

  Self, Mistress, Understatement

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• Though I know that he had something to do with the attack simulation, and with all those deaths, I find it difficult to pair those actions with the man I see in front of me. I wonder if this is how it is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likeable as good men.

  Veronica Roth

  Men, Evil, Good Man

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• I am remarkably likeable. Few people have ever been as likeable as I am. There is, frankly, no end to my likeability. People gather together in public assemblies to discuss how much they like me. I have several awards, and a small medal from a small country in South America which pays tribute both to how much I am liked and my general all around wonderfulness. I don't have it on me, of course. I keep my medals in my sock drawer.

  Neil Gaiman

  Country, Awards, America

  Neil Gaiman (2005). “Anansi Boys”

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