#referred

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#encounters #had #held #i #interviews

Winning Nobel imposed on me a lifestyle to which I am not used and which I would not have preferred. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#i #i am #imposed #lifestyle #me

There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over. ↗

— Branford Marsalis

#conclusion #done #i #just #kind

I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#close #close friends #friends #groups #i

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#delivering #films #i #liked #performance

My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance! ↗

— Kate Moss

#car #daughter #door #filling #fragrance

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

#because #behind #being #big #down

I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys. ↗

— Susan Olsen

#always #brady #family #i #i always

To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#bit #else #email #emails #everything

Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#filmmaking #great #hendrix #inspiration #jimi