Before the plague came, he liked to associate with the Spanish dancers and musicians in the city.

Cassavetes told Scorsese he should do something like Who's That Knocking At My Door, which Cassavetes had liked, and then came Mean Streets, which was based on actual events Scorsese saw almost regularly while growing up in Little Italy.

" His maternal grandmother, who had suggested his birth name of Samuel, also came up with his nickname: " heard the name on a soap opera she liked and decided from that moment on he would be Mikey.

However, his biographer John Grigg argued that Lloyd George's childhood was nowhere near as poverty-stricken as he liked to suggest, and that a great deal of his self-confidence came from having been brought up by an uncle who enjoyed a position of influence and prestige in his small community.

The latter chose the last name Keaton simply because he came across a picture of actress Diane Keaton and " liked the sound of name ," so he adopted it as his own.

Question writer Dick DeBartolo came up with a funnier set of questions, like " Mary liked to pour gravy on John's _____ ", and submitted it to Mark Goodson.

Foley came down the following year, liked what he saw and bought up between and of land.

Many came on the train and they liked the location. Noble Railroad

Her first name came from a train station whose name her father liked.

The group came to the attention of Guy Stevens at Island, who liked the group but not with Tippins as lead singer.

The former found a match in her when it came to ironical comments in Oxford society, where she was not liked much, either, due to her ridicule of that set in her novel Belinda ( 1883 ).

As much as he would have liked to put these last two Jubilees fourteen years earlier in order to be consistent with his idée fixe, Rabbi Yose could not do it because he knew these were historical dates, not dates that came from his own calculation.

Two decades later he said, " I didn't put The Runaways together, I had an idea, they had ideas, we all met, there was combustion and out of five different versions of that group came the five girls who were the ones that people liked.

The king very much liked the song and informally it came to function as his royal anthem.

" Stewart asked what Witches who were initiated via our Covens should be called ; after much discussion, he came up with " Alexandrian " which both Alex and I rather liked.

Also, a permanent fixture in both the third and fourth series was Burt Kwouk, who appeared as a guest in series two, and liked it so much that he came back on a regular basis.

Proverbially, during this time savvy IBM customers liked to have Amdahl coffee mugs visible in their offices when IBM salespeople came to visit.

The idea of The Carnival of the Animals came from Joe Grant, who liked the ostriches in the Dance of the Hours segment from Fantasia.

McKean said that Labyrinth provided something of a starting point for the project, and that he liked the " human element of that film ," but that ultimately the story of MirrorMask was something that he and Gaiman came up with on their own.

They also took it to Sherwin's hero, Rebel Without a Cause director Nicholas Ray, who liked it but had a nervous breakdown before anything came of it.

Mattus thought that Denmark was known for its dairy products and had a positive image in the U. S. His daughter Doris Hurley reported in the PBS documentary An Ice Cream Show ( 1999 ) that her father sat at the kitchen table for hours saying nonsensical words until he came up with a combination he liked.

The permission came from Ziggy Marley, who liked the new version when they played it to him.

Morten was looking through Paul's notebook, and came across the name, which he liked, and immediately decided that was the right name.

Ulrikh subsequently served on a number of military tribunals, and came to the attention of Stalin, who apparently liked the efficient way in which he carried out his duties and his terse, even laconic style of reporting these tribunals ' actions.

During these first days of the trial I didn't have as much time to commiserate with Viola as I should have liked.

She liked this taste of authority and independence, and, with darkness, was not likely to give it up.

Other hitters bloomed with more or less vigor in the news and a few even dared to dream of matching Ruth, who was still called Jidge by all his friends, or Leo or Two-Head by those who dared to taunt him ( Leo was the name of the ball player he liked the least ) and who called most of the world `` Kid ''.

for every grown man ( except a few who were always suspected of being shy on virility ) knew at least the fundamentals of baseball, just as every male American in this era liked to imagine ( or pretend ) that he could fight with his fists.

He liked to nip ear lobes of unsuspecting visitors with his needle-sharp teeth.

The reasons are that America generally believes that she can buy anything with dollars, and that she compulsively strives to be liked.

I never liked going straight into an examination with patients -- it relaxes them, I've always thought, to chat first.

Because I liked this sad person so much, I said, `` Will you have a drink with me ''??

Although the manufacturer committed to re-do the broken parts, Gaudí liked the aesthetic of the broken masonry and asked that the pieces be stuck to the main structure with lime mortar and held in with a brass ring.

However, despite her outwardly placid appearance, Anne was determined, and with experience, made a success of her position, becoming well liked by her employers.

He liked to surround himself with jazz musicians and often performed with a horn section drawn from a pool that included, among others, saxophone players Art Themen, Mel Collins, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Lol Coxhill, Dick Morrissey, John Surman and trombonist Mike Zwerin.

After a lengthy battle with his syndicator, Watterson won the privilege of making half page-sized Sunday strips where he could arrange the panels any way he liked.

I liked the one with bricks, but ultimately I thought simple red behind it was the boldest and the best.

At Versailles she was incorporated into the Olympian iconography with which Louis XIV, the Apollo-like " Sun King " liked to surround himself.

He did not agree with this film's philosophy but liked how it conveyed " the sense of New York as a kind of jungle, and I wanted to make a science fiction film along these lines ".

Bartov wrote that German film-makers liked to show the heroic last stand of the 6th Army at Stalingrad, but none has so far showed the 6th Army's massive co-operation with the Einsatzgruppen in murdering Soviet Jews in 1941.

Orwell liked to provoke argument by challenging the status quo, but he was also a traditionalist with a love of old English values.

He also suggested that two large Belgic tribes neighbouring Caesar's Germani, the Nervii and the Treveri, liked to call themselves Germanic in his time, in order not to be associated with Gaulish indolence.

Cukor liked leading lady Marilyn Monroe but found it difficult to deal with her erratic work habits, frequent absences from the set, and the constant presence of her acting coach, Paula Strasberg.

Palin later spoke, saying that he liked to think that Chapman was there with them all that day —" or rather, he will be in about 25 minutes ," a reference to Chapman's habitual lateness when they were all working together.

" At the instigation of the Devil ", Vortigern fell in love with Hengist's daughter and promised Hengist whatever he liked in exchange for her betrothal.

An FBI agent who had gone on fishing trips with Hoover and Tolson said that the director liked to " sunbathe all day in the nude ”.