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Quotes About Liking

Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!'
~ Randy Jackson
Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish it. Third, they think somebody's going to read it. Fourth, they think somebody's going to like it. How optimistic is that?
~ Margaret Atwood
Once she wasn't supposed to like it. To have her in a position she didn't like, that was power. Even if she liked it she had to pretend she didn't. Then she was supposed to like it. To make her do something she didn't like and then make her like it, that was greater power. The greatest power of all is when she doesn't really like it but she's supposed to like it, so she has to pretend.
~ Margaret Atwood
Well, to tell you the truth, I've thought of it often and often before, but he's such devilish good company is Huntingdon, after all - you can't imagine what a jovial good fellow he is when he's not fairly drunk, only just primed or half-seas-over - we all have a bit of a liking for him at the bottom of our hearts, though we can't respect him.' 'But should you wish yourself to be like him?' 'No, I'd rather be like myself, bad as I am.
~ Anne Bronte
but she wouldn't have been a Cat Person if she had not.
~ Anne McCaffrey
I like you both! And that's better than loving you, for that's expected, you know. But liking you, what a curious surprise.
~ Anne Rice
I like you both! And that's better than loving you, for that's expected, you know. But liking you, what a curious surprise.
~ Anne Rice
Walter and I are very fond of some children, but not across the board, not as a species. No
~ Anne Rivers Siddons
Not only had she paid him attention, but she had secretly taken more pleasure in him than in any of the others.
~ Anne Tyler
If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, Nobody's, In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself likes only the role, the thought of himself in a hat.
~ Annie Dillard
The worst of it was, he had come to like the Jacobeans, in all their sophipathic insanity. They might be grotesaries, caricatures, larger than life and full of violence-but they were also shockingly generous and, sometimes, shockingly funny.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I've never thought that what they did to me was personal anyway. It is politics. And if you decide to go into politics, you have to be prepared to put up with this kind of -- with these kind of problems. I like a lot of the generals. I'm rather inclined to liking people.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
I like Chance The Rapper a lot.
~ Angie Martinez
It's rare that I go on a first date and don't want to go out again.
~ Lamorne Morris
I have rarely met a musical I haven't liked.
~ James Snyder
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
~ Simon Beaufoy
All my collaborations happen in different ways. Sometimes it's through a chance meeting at a festival or event, while others can happen just off the back of me liking their music and reaching out.
~ Kygo
I like Public Enemy a great deal.
~ Randy Newman
I'm not a big disco guy.
~ Jon Bon Jovi
We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.
~ Eddie Van Halen
En cuanto a nosotros, aficionados a la lectura feliz, no leemos ni releemos más que lo que nos gusta, con un pequeño orgullo de lector mezclado con mucho entusiasmo.
~ Gaston Bachelard
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
~ George Bernard Shaw
He thought it probable that Miss Brooke liked him, and manners must be very marked indeed before they cease to be interpreted by preconceptions either confident or distrustful.
~ George Eliot
You shall have whatever you like,' said Grandcourt. 'And nothing that I don't like? - please say that; because I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like,' said Gwendolen, finding herself in the woman's paradise where all her nonsense is adorable.
~ George Eliot