There is definitely something that has to be said for me liking the action, Lara Croft type stuff. I really want to explore that side of me.
People do get ridiculed for liking us or because they look the way they do and they’re a part of what we do.
I grew up in this house of intellectuals, and for me, it wasn’t, like, a negative thing. And what I’ve discovered is, for a lot of people, it is. But I think knowing history, liking to talk about ideas – like, I just genuinely like to geek out and go on these intellectual thought journeys.
The truth is that Roy Hodgson and I never clicked because I was far too outgoing for his liking and I had to rein that in when I was in front of him.
If the fans are liking what I’ve been doing, and they want to create a song for me, let’s get on with it!
Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn’t.
Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.
Likings arise when one has no earthly reason for liking – the most wildly improbable marriages and uncommon friendship.
I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.
Everyone is going to go through that phase of not liking their hair, but at the end of the day you’re going to regret that you ever put relaxer or anything in your hair.
I don’t tweet, I don’t go on Facebook. I think there’s too much information about all of us out there. I’m liking the idea of privacy more and more.
My step dad’s from Nigeria, so he listened to Highlife music from Africa. He was also into hip-hop and R&B, and from that, I started to listen to music from his collection and liking it, developing my own taste.
‘Drive,’ that’s the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that’s the one, even though it took me 7 or 8 years to start liking it.
I’ve worked very hard at understanding myself, learning to be assertive. I’m past the point where I worry about people liking me.
I started liking basketball when I was 13, but I couldn’t play because my dad thought it was too physical.
In many ways, a song-writing partnership is like a marriage. Apart from just liking each other, a lyricist and a composer should be able to spend long periods of time together – around the clock if need be – without getting on each other’s nerves. Their goals, outlooks, and basic philosophies should be similar.
But as long as you’re creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn’t have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
It’s not a matter of being choosy as an actor but a matter of liking the right script.
L.A. prides itself on newness or being the last frontier or just not liking old things and tearing them down to build new things. But Malibu history is interesting to me. My mom’s family was one of the early families in California, so there’s history going back to the 1840s or ’50s.
If you like working out in a gym over playing a sport, then you should go ahead and do it. It is about what your mind has a liking towards.
I’m kind of ADD in that sense where if I start liking something, I’ll just learn it to the absolute max.
I found myself in this conundrum of loving acting, but not liking the path that you have to take to do it. I was just never good at auditioning, so basically I decided I would just write my own stuff and if I could get a role in it, then fine.
What it takes to get people from liking and sharing and retweeting to organising is a hard and long process. Technology has really changed the game in terms of how people participate and what they decide to participate in.
In yoga, we say that everyone has a magnet on them, and you’re either positively or negatively charged. So if you’re liking how you’re looking, you’re gonna be more positively charged.
The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.
Sometimes, big budget movies with big stars also flop, and sometimes small films manage to win the heart of audiences. Ultimately, it is the viewer who is the king and it depends on the liking of the audiences.
Watching monster movies as a kid, liking monsters, building monster models. TV shows like ‘The Munsters,’ ‘Addams Family’ and ‘Twilight Zone.’ It intrigued me. The music came from that.
When Czar Ivan III took a liking to the Judaizers, they were invited to Moscow, where they managed to convert so much of the court nobility in the last decades of the fifteenth century that traditionalists felt the need to counter the trend through selective burnings at the stake.
If there are 100 people, I don’t anticipate all 100 liking my scenario – but I write it so at least one or two of them will love and get really into that particular story.
When I fought in the amateurs and fought New York guys, they had a different swag, a different style, and maybe they didn’t take a liking to Texas fighters to begin with.
Right out of the University of California I had passed the bar, but Colorado was one of those places where anybody could come and nobody would ask what your background was or how long you had been here. So I took to the place with a liking.
If a script comes together, and you end up liking the people who are part of it, that’s when you can make magic happen. It’s a huge combination of trying to find something you think you can deliver on and a director you think you can collaborate with to make a good picture.
Much of the time I’m an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer’s sensibility.
The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in residence, and picks fights or forms alliances. The alliances build new structures, to defend themselves against intruders.
I probably played too much on the left for my liking – I’m not that kind of player who is going to get the ball and run past the full-back. Of course if it happens, you’ve got to do a job for the team, and no problem. But I feel better – and think you get more out of me – playing me through the middle.
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
I’m not a great fan of the modern style of personal agonising, which crops up a bit too often for my liking.
I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It’s like a hangover.
Liking beauty doesn’t mean you’re superficial.
We’re going to get the Internet we deserve, and those people who are the most active in shaping the Internet to their liking are going to win out.
It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself; to like is intrinsically to be conscious.
You know the 80s music is something that no one wants to admit liking, but once then start playing everyone is into it.
I remember liking Betty White a lot. It was one of those things as a little child actress, you get inspired by experienced actresses and actresses that reach out to you.
Success is liking yourself and what you do because if you like yourself, you are happy with who you are and how you live and what you do.
When ‘Play’ first came out, journalists didn’t review it; it didn’t get radio play. And then it became this big successful record and, I hate to admit this, I found myself liking the fame. I bought into it.
Being transgender has completely turned boys off from liking me.
Sometimes I worry about things changing and people not liking me any more. As a comedian you do feel like you’re walking on a knife edge.
I actually believe that the basis of a good relationship isn’t liking the same things, it’s hating the same things.
I never really planned on being a rapper, I just kinda did it and then people started liking it.
Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves.
Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It’s happened before where people have changed direction and then everyone’s stopped liking their music.
I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
I’ve had rooms that didn’t come out to my liking.
I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
Baseball wasn’t necessarily my first sport in terms of liking it. I’d never played baseball or softball growing up.
How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.
Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.
When I’d get out of school in the afternoon, I would go to the golf course, and I just picked the game up. And when I was 13 years old, I could shoot 70 – even-par 71, one over par and then something like that. I just took a liking to the game.
