“Believe it or not, one of my favorite songs is 'La Marseillaise'. I'll watch Casablanca just to hear it. It is enough to get me off my ass and want to jump on a horse and yell, "Charge!"” WantBelieveEnoughSongWatchesHorseMy FavoriteAssFavorite Song Author:Seymour Stein
“The childhood scenes [ in The Tree of Life] are tremendous. My favorite moment is when the mother levitate - for three seconds. Of course, this is how a child thinks of his mother.” ThinkingChildrenMomentsMotherThreeCoursesTreeChildhoodSceneMy FavoriteSecondsTree Of Life Author:Paul Auster
“One of my favorite teams of all time is Fran and Barry. I just thought Fran and Barry last season were just incredible and they just sort of went against all odds and were very successful.” LastsSuccessfulTeamSeasonsIncrediblesMy FavoriteAll TimeOddsAgainst All Odds Author:Tom Ford
“Cormac McCarthy is my favorite author in the world. I love him so much. There's one book that informs me more than The Road - it's called Suttree. That book is a huge influence on me. I'm not smart enough to emulate him, but he inspires me. He never infiltrates my writing directly. He writes incredibly intelligently about people that are marginalized.” PeopleWorldWritingBookEnoughInfluenceInspireHugeSmartMy FavoriteEmulateI Love HimMarginalized Author:Matt de la Pena
“My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.” InspirationalTimeMoneyClearBalanceCostResourcesInnovationMy FavoriteTime ManagementThings In LifeFavorites ThingsPrecious ThingsImportant JobsFavourite ThingsMoney Wasted Author:Steve Jobs
“When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director.” FilmSpeakDirectorsSilentMy FavoriteSpeak EnglishAbelSilent Films Author:Kola Boof
“One of my favorite things is watching my children learn something new. The combination of innocence and excitement makes a parent feel truly alive, even if only for a second and peripherally.” IfsFeelsChildrenParentAliveMy FavoriteInnocenceCombinationMy ChildrenExcitementSomething NewFavorites Things Author:Michael Adam Hamilton
“For me, one of my favorite parts of stop motion is not even the animating or the writing, but actually building. I always say that my favorite stage is just fabrication. It's just sitting on a workbench, making a little thing out of clay or whatever. That just totally excites me.” WritingLittlesStageBuildingSittingMy FavoriteLittle ThingsClayFabrication Author:Kirsten Lepore
“I have a lot of different collections of cards at home. It's hard to say my favorite deck, but there is a deck called the medicine cards, and it's Native American animal cards.” DifferentHardHomeAnimalMedicineMy FavoriteCardsCollectionsNativeNative AmericanDeck Author:Valerie June
“All of my favorite songs can bring me to tears. Some are rock, some are blues, some are love ballads. That's why I play music - to touch other people as I have been touched.” PeopleHas BeensPlaySongRocksTearsMy FavoriteTouchedBalladsFavorite Song Author:Kelly Blatz
“My favorite color right now is purple, but it used to be pink. It's kind of always going to be pink.” KindUsedColorRight NowMy FavoriteUsed To BePurpleFavorite Color Author:Kristinia DeBarge
“Keats's odes are among my favorite poems ever. As are Neruda's. So yes, I think my poems are odes, though I really just see those titles as ways of more or less orienting the poem. I've never thought about this until now, but I guess you could say that one effect of all the titles, their pervasiveness in the book, might be to once again, as so many other things do, put into question the meaning of the word "for," which I suppose is one of the great human questions: what is all this for? Why, and for whom, are we doing whatever we are doing?” ThinkingWayHumansBookMightEffectsMy FavoriteTitlesOdes Author:Matthew Zapruder
“That being said, some of my favorite poets are extremely funny. The aforementioned Matt Rohrer, for instance. Mary Ruefle. James Tate might be the best example of someone who is systematically misread because he can be hilarious. In his poems, as in all great funny poems, the humor is one very appealing version of the surprise and associative movement that is at the heart of all poetry.” HeartSaidMightExampleMovementPoetSurpriseMy FavoriteVersionsInstanceBeing The BestMaryExtremely Funny Author:Matthew Zapruder
“I like a narrative, even if it's fractured, or kind of psychedelic. But my favorite thing is if I hear words and I close my eyes and the connotations or the image I get in my head, combine with the sound of them - sometimes phonetics. I'm just stringing those together.” IfsKindSometimesEyeTogetherSoundMy FavoriteNarrativePsychedelicFavorites ThingsConnotationPhonetics Author:Stephen Malkmus
“I wanted to literalize the surreal here. Those are my favorite kinds of stories. I love when Gabriel García Márquez does that, for instance - it adds to the joy, dares you to believe the unbelievable. And why not: so much of life is so dreamlike, so strange, so absurd.” BelieveKindDoeStoriesWantedLife IsJoyStrangeAddMy FavoriteDareAbsurdInstanceWhy NotUnbelievableSurrealGabriel Author:Porochista Khakpour
“My favorite recordings are the ones that feel like there were no middlemen in the creation. That's the biggest problem with most films and records being made today - too many people involved. I think it dilutes the artist's intent and inspiration.” PeopleThinkingFeelsMadeProblemInspirationTodayFilmArtistRecordsCreationInvolvedMy FavoriteMiddlemen Author:M. Ward
“I just want the songs to have the staying power as my favorite songs. If you listen to any Hank Williams song, when you're in a good mood, it's going to put you in a better mood. If you happen to be bummed-out, you're going to feel maybe a little more bummed-out and better at the same time. At any time in my life, his music has had meaning and value to me. If a song can shape-shift in that way, that's a sign of success.” IfsWayWantFeelsLittlesHappensValuesSongShapesMy FavoriteMoodStayingFavorite SongGood MoodStaying PowerHank WilliamsBummed Out Author:M. Ward
“A good mixtape didn't just gather together a bunch of love songs, but instead created an emotional narrative specific to your affection. The stories in most of my favorite collections are collected more like songs on a mixtape than, say, collected like spare change. By which I mean they are in conversation with each other and work to become larger than their parts.” MeanStoriesTogetherSongEmotionalConversationMy FavoriteAffectionBunchNarrativeCollectionsSparesMixtapesSpare Change Author:Anthony Marra
“A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and look through architecture books and interior design books. Something about the aesthetics of space and beautiful images works with my brain.” LooksBookIdeasBeautifulSpaceBrainDesignMy FavoriteArchitectureThings To DoInteriorsAestheticsBookstoresFavorites ThingsInterior DesignBeautiful Images Author:St. Lucia
“I'm a huge Hayao Miyazaki fan. He might be my favorite director of all time - the beauty that he sees in the world and the attention to detail. I try and focus on that while making music: trying to use as many real instruments as possible, have it feel as tactile and tangible as possible.” WorldFeelsTryingRealUseMightAttentionFocusFansHugeDirectorsInstrumentsMy FavoriteDetailsAll TimeTangibleAttention To DetailTactile Author:St. Lucia
“My favorite film is "Meshes in the Afternoon," a short avant garde film directed by Maya Deren. This was the first film that I saw that was actually directed by a woman.” FirstsFilmSawsMy FavoriteAfternoonAvant GardeMesh Author:Chris Hegedus
“One of my favorite tricks was taking a page and having the first student translate it from English into whatever language he or she was working on, and the next one would translate it back into English and then into the foreign language, and we'd go around the room and compare the two English versions at the end, and it would be amazing how much survived.” FirstsTwoEndsWould BeNextLanguageRoomsStudentsPagesMy FavoriteTricksVersionsCompareTranslateSurvivedThe Next OneForeign Language Author:Gregory Rabassa
“I love going up the West Coast of the U. S. because it's one of my favorite parts of the world to tour.” WorldWestMy FavoriteCoastWest Coast Author:Colin Hay
“I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are about these wild affairs and postmarital agonistes - but to be honest, I'm someone that doesn't deal well with instability.” WellsWishDealsNovelHonestAffairMy FavoriteBeing HonestLazyNonfictionInstability Author:Kate Zambreno
“I don't have a least favorite [movie] or favorite anything except love versus non-love. Love's my favorite, non-love's my least favorite.” My FavoriteVersus Author:Giuseppe Andrews
“I admired the earnestness of these people, many of whom had joined Greenpeace and marched for noble things in their youth. But I didn’t share their hatred of the establishment. After all, the establishment had given me so many of my favorite things: Nick at Nite, the New York Knicks, Stephen King, Taco Bell, Green Day. The list went on and on.” PeopleGivenShareNew YorkYouthKingsHatredGreenMy FavoriteNobleListsEstablishmentBellsFavorites ThingsEarnestnessTacosKnicksTaco BellGreenpeace Author:Simon Rich
“My favorite artists from comics were early ones like Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko who had a real heavy ink style. Captain America, co created by Jack Kirby, was a favorite of mine and I sometimes use an altered version of his costume on some of my characters.” RealSometimesCharacterUseAmericaArtistStyleMinesMy FavoriteHeavyVersionsCaptainsCostumesInkAlteredFavorite Artist Author:Marcel Dzama
“One of my favorite things about the Kung Fu Panda 3 is the look of it. We never go for realism. I think a lot of time when people go for 3D that's the mistake. Because we're never going for full realism - for computer generated live action films like Avatar the goal is realism, to make the audience feel like they are seeing something that is real. Lord of the Rings had character design and environments to make it look real, whereas we aren't going for that, we are going for something that is theatrically, viscerally, and emotionally real.” PeopleThinkingFeelsLooksRealCharacterActionFilmGoalMistakeLordAudienceEnvironmentSeeingDesignComputerMy FavoriteRingsRealismFavorites ThingsKung FuAction FilmsPandasKung Fu PandaCharacter Design Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“One of my favorite eras is the '80s. I'm an '80s baby to the world, love everything about the '80s.” WorldBabyMy FavoriteEras80sWorld Love Author:Deon Cole
“MacGyver of course, that's probably my favorite show of all time, because it was a guy who was so, so smart and could use his wits, and his technical know-how could get him out of any situation. There's something about the adventurer aspect of that show that I loved, that he went on all these great missions and saved people without having to use guns or anything like that. And I think that show might even be coming back, too.” PeopleThinkingKnowsUseShowsMightGuyCoursesSituationKnow HowSmartGunAspectMy FavoriteMissionsSavedWitAll TimeComing BackAdventurerMacgyver Author:Rhys Darby
“Ghost tells me every few years, Yo, you showed me this style ... I'm like, man, we the same style. At the end of the day, he's one of my favorite rappers, I'm one of his favorite rappers, and we just do it.” MenYearsEndsStyleMy FavoriteGhostThe End Of The DayRapperJust Do It Author:Raekwon
“My favorite movie is Lawrence Of Arabia. But that's a long, long movie. So although I've seen it several times, it's not as fun as Jaws.” LongFunMy FavoriteArabiaLawrence Of Arabia Author:Paul F. Tompkins
“I like being around people who are good conversationalists, when there's a give and take, and you are heightening an idea, exploring it together, that is my favorite thing in the world.” PeopleWorldGivingIdeasTogetherMy FavoriteExploringFavorites ThingsGive And TakeGood Conversation Author:Paul F. Tompkins
“I love a small dinner party - let's say six people, max, were everybody's having the same conversation. That's my favorite thing in the world.” PeopleWorldPartyConversationSixMy FavoriteDinnerMaxFavorites ThingsDinner Party Author:Paul F. Tompkins
“My favorite thing to cook is anything that comes out okay. I'm very fond of certain pastas and sauces that I can just about cook from scratch. So those are what I like to cook, as well as roasted potatoes and chicken. Anything that tastes alright.” WellsI CanCertainTasteOkayMy FavoriteCooksChickensPotatoesScratchesAlrightSauceFavorites ThingsPasta Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor
“I've always had a social awareness. My favorite channel on TV is BBC News 24. For a while, I had to have it on repeat in my house. I've always been interested in what's going on in the world.” WorldHouseSocialAwarenessTvsNewsMy FavoriteRepeatsSocial Awareness Author:Douglas Booth
“I suppose to a certain degree. London's my favorite place on the planet and the reason for that is its fantastic diversity.” ReasonCertainPlanetsDegreesDiversityMy FavoriteLondonFantasticFavorite Places Author:Douglas Booth
“Seeing babies and little children smile or even just be inquisitive about a bottle cap isnpires me. Watching a great performance, particularly live or in the moment. My favorite actor at the moment is the three-time Tony Award-winning Mark Rylance. Makes me work to be better.” ChildrenLittlesMomentsThreeActorsWinningSeeingBabyPerformancesMarkMy FavoriteAwardsBottlesThree TimesCapsInquisitiveGreat PerformanceAward Winning Author:Graham Shiels
“My children are my greatest gifts and my greatest inspirations. That my husband is the most honest, kind, hard-working, and genuine person, and I honestly don't know how I could ever live without him. That my parents love me and I love and appreciate them. That I hate doing taxes. That my biggest pet peeve is inconsiderate people. That I love laughing, traveling, volunteering, and my friends. That my favorite smell is chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven. That I am blessed.” PeopleKnowsKindChildrenPersonsHardInspirationHateParentLaughingKnow HowHonestHard WorkHusbandTaxesMy FriendsAppreciateI HateBlessedMy FavoriteSmellHonestlyGenuineMy ChildrenPetMy HusbandChocolateVolunteerChipsCookiesBakingGreatest GiftsOvensParents LoveInconsideratePeevesChocolate ChipsPet PeeveChocolate Chip CookiesGenuine Person Author:Trista Sutter
“I had no idea the amount of people who even knew who I was. Suddenly, they were coming up and saying, "You're my favorite artist." Very surreal. After years of trying to get work, and then coming here and being able to meet some of the fans of Array.” PeopleTryingYearsIdeasAbleArtistFansAmountMy FavoriteNo IdeaSurrealFavorite Artist Author:Eric Wight
“For me, selfishly, Toronto is my favorite city in the world. It's the greatest city and you have the whole world here.” WorldWholeCitiesMy FavoriteWhole WorldTorontoCities In The WorldFavorite City Author:Kristen Hager
“Whitney Houston is my idol and my mentor and my dream forever, like she will always be my favorite artist, ever, on the planet. Like I don't think I'll ever feel that way about another artist.” ThinkingWayFeelsDreamArtistForeverPlanetsMy FavoriteIdolsMentorHoustonWhitneyFavorite Artist Author:Brandy Norwood
“I was just so honored to play the role of Cinderella and to just be the first African-American princess, that's just historic for me, that's such a mark in my life and my career and then the bonus of just working with my favorite person in the whole world, Whitney [Houston], like her voice just did something to my spirit.” WorldFirstsPersonsPlayWholeSpiritVoiceCareersRolesMarkMy FavoriteWhole WorldAfrican AmericanPrincessHonoredHistoricLike HerBonusHoustonWhitneyFavorite Person Author:Brandy Norwood
“I love watching comedies. It's my favorite thing to watch and it always lifts my spirits.” SpiritWatchesComedyMy FavoriteLiftsFavorites Things Author:LeToya Luckett
“I did this movie, Predestination, and it's one of my favorite movies I've ever made, because sci-fi really lets you talk about ideas in a way that's not pretentious.” WayMadeIdeasMy FavoriteSci FiPretentiousPredestination Author:Ethan Hawke
“My favorite stories are human, so I'm always looking for...” HumansStoriesMy Favorite Author:Ethan Hawke
“I like violence because I like looking at it and I like understanding emotional and physical violence and how they work with one another... It's operating in all these levels of hopefully - Oedipus is one of my favorite stories, that's like falling down a well when you read that - so that would be the hope, that each thing causes the next.” WellsStoriesWould BeFallNextCausesUnderstandingLevelsViolenceEmotionalMy FavoriteHopefullyFalling DownOedipusPhysical Violence Author:Kimberly Peirce
“One particular spark was when I went back to my favorite spot in the mountains where my father always used to take us before my graduate studies in Canada and finding that the stream I had gone swimming in wasnt there. The forest had been converted into an apple orchard with World Bank financing. The entire place, literally, had changed.” WorldUsedFatherGoneStudyChangedParticularMountainFindingsMy FavoriteForestsSpotsStreamsApplesCanadaSparksSwimmingGraduatesFinancingOrchardWorld Bank Author:Vandana Shiva
“My favorite villain was maybe Batman. I think Vandal Savage is really cool 'cause he has the ability not to die and he's smart, but he doesn't have any gadgets, he doesn't shoot fire and he doesn't fly. He's just old school, and I love that.” ThinkingSchoolDiesCausesAbilityFireSmartMy FavoriteVillainSavagesReally CoolOld SchoolGadgetsVandals Author:Casper Crump
“My favorite color is blue, and my secret favorite color is pink.” SecretColorBlueMy FavoriteFavorite Color Author:Paul Dano