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.

Mike Judge himself is highly critical of the animation and quality of earlier episodes, in particular the first two --" Blood Drive "/" Give Blood " and " Door to Door "-- which he described as " awful, I don't know why anybody liked it ...

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

In later years Hoover liked to think of himself and his associates as having been " engineering doctors to sick concerns ", and so hence his reputation as the " Doctor of sick mines "

Critics generally liked the finished building, but the architect himself was unsatisfied.

Cousteau liked to call himself an " oceanographic technician.

However, Charles, who liked to see himself as a champion of Protestant Europe, greatly disliked Louis XIV for his treatment of the Huguenots, and was generally uninterested in the western war.

Gustav liked to compare himself to Moses, whom he believed to have also liberated his people and established a sovereign state.

Conway liked the new name, and later adopted it himself.

Gorton liked to portray himself as a man of the people who enjoyed a beer and a gamble, with a bit of a " larrikin " streak about him.

A great many of these experiments Rivers made on himself, and for this purpose gave up for a period of two years not only alcoholic beverages and tobacco, which was easy enough for him as he liked neither, but all tea, coffee and cocoa as well.

Verhoeven himself liked comic drawing and created The Killer, a grey character in a detailed story full of revenge.

On several occasions Pettersson pointed out that he himself was a " Social Democrat ", and liked Olof Palme.

Jagiełło himself frequently travelled from Kraków to Vilnius, and he liked to stay at the Radom Castle during the trips.

" Lang himself, despite objecting to his dismissal conceded that he too liked Game, regarding him as fair and polite, and having had good relations with him.

Gaiman mentioned wanting to do a Renfaire issue with Hob in it because he thought it would be funny for several reasons: Gaiman himself mentioned in " The Sandman Companion " that he never liked Renfaires, particularly in America and wondered what it would be like if someone from the time popped in.

Gratian liked and respected his tutor, and when he himself became emperor in 375 he began bestowing on Ausonius and his family the highest civil honors.

Beckett said, though he liked Nausea, he generally found the writing style of Sartre and Heidegger to be " too philosophical " and he considered himself " not a philosopher ".

He was a sophisticated swindler who liked to think of himself as a kind and generous benefactor to the needy.

Trujillo doused himself with perfume and liked gossip.

Fleming himself liked gold enough to commission a gold-plated typewriter from the Royal Typewriter Company, although he never actually used it.

He liked to call himself " El alcalde de Machuchal ," ( the Mayor of Machuchal ).

I ’ ll go .’ So Paul went up Chicago and introduced himself to Ragbaby Stevens and Ragbaby liked him … and Paul got the railroad fare from his father and sent me $ 60 ”.

He describes him as having " in the plain way of speaking and delivery a strange power of making himself believed ," as a man of " not only firm gravity but a severity and even some morosity ," as " rather exceedingly liked than passionately loved.

The $ 64, 000 Question had the opposite problem: sponsor Revlon – possibly under pressure from its chieftain, Charles Revson, who has been credited with expressing the desire for famous faces that prompted Challenges expansion to include celebrities-often tried to interfere with the production of Question, including and especially trying to bump contestants it simply disliked, no matter whether the audience liked them.

Still, he had liked the way she had looked, in a fresh, neat cotton dress -- citron yellow, if he remembered.

* The nurses who liked the old white nurse dress uniforms ; they argue that nurses who wear scrubs are seen by the patients as cleaners or surgeons and cannot be identified as nurses.

From an early age he liked to dress in women's clothes and in his teens realized that he was a transvestite.

After finally admitting she liked Seth, grew jealous of Seth's friend Anna Stern ( Samaire Armstrong ), whom he met at a cotillion dance practice and whom he shared many interests with, including comics and dress.

One he liked in particular was a dress shop called Minnie, Maude and Mabel's.

1979-The Stables at 1123 Folsom ( for those who liked to dress as cowboys ), The Trench ( for those into hardcore urolagnia ), The Hothouse on the northwest corner of 5th and Harrison ( another BDSM gay bathhouse ), Tailor of San Francisco, Mister S Leathers.

") He then steals the bride — but only after they swap clothes, since she decided she liked trousers better than skirts, and he claimed to have always felt more at ease in a dress.

She routinely attended events at which Clinton would be present, wearing a black dress she believed he liked.

In Larry Jaffee's book, Albert Square & Me: The Actors of Eastenders, McCutcheon discussed the auditioning process at the BBC in December 1994, saying that the casting directors liked the way she read, but did not feel that her dress sense tallied with their vision of Tiffany.

Mann understood better than most men the incest comedy at the center of the myth and the psychological truth in which dread is shown as the other face as longing was for him just the kind of deep and complicated joke he liked to tell.

It usually turned out well for him because either he liked the right people or there were only a few wrong people in the town.

) is for the most part a recondite affair, for manifestly, if everyone in the world who could afford the best wines also liked them, the supply would dry up in no time at all.

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.

A few passed along a tip for the simple reason that they liked him and wanted to give him a break.

And then I remembered a few years before after their return from a short trip to Rome I had heard her boast, over and over again, `` On the boat people liked me for myself ''.

This was developed into the language " E-Prime " by D. David Bourland, Jr. 15 years after his death ( E-Prime a form of the English language in which the verb " to be " does not appear in any of its forms ; for example, the sentence " the movie was good " could translate into E-Prime as " I liked the movie ", thereby distinguishing opinion from fact ).

The Apple I went on sale in July 1976 at a price of, because Wozniak " liked repeating digits " and because they originally sold it to a local shop for $ 500 plus a one-third markup.

The cartoonist liked to joke about how he failed geometry for nine straight terms.

The chips were also liked for their undervolting ability.

Lancaster sought demanding roles, and if he liked a part or a director, he was prepared to work for much lower pay than he might have earned elsewhere.

Part of the reason for its success was that libraries in teachers ’ colleges liked the way Bliss had organized the subject areas on teaching and education.

Each of the other candidates had hindrances to his nomination: Bayard had spoken in favor of secession in 1861, making him unacceptable to Northerners ; Butler, conversely, was reviled throughout the South for his actions during the Civil War ; Thurman was generally well liked, but was growing old and infirm, and his views on the silver question were uncertain.

However, Lord Russell sometimes liked to use this position to speak for the whole government, as if he were the prime minister.

" Mercer emphasized that he was not blaming heavy metal music for Gill's actions and added " It doesn't matter actually what music he liked.

" 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.

Mrs. Kennedy liked the design, but resistance began in Cambridge, the first proposed site for the building, as soon as the project was announced.

In the editorial notes of his compendium Portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Hilles theorizes that " as a corollary one might say that he was somewhat lacking in a capacity for love ", and cites Boswell's notary papers: " He said the reason he would never marry was that every woman whom he liked had grown indifferent to him, and he had been < u > glad </ u > he did not marry her.

He received praise for his performance, and the studio liked his work enough to offer him These Wilder Years with Barbara Stanwyck.

He liked the informality of manners, the food, even the fact that one did not have to wear a kimono for a formal dinner and could leave shoes on all day.

It was promoted in cursory fashion: the group, while well liked, had a reputation for being wayward and ill-disciplined, and no one expected much of them or their album.

An experienced motor industry executive, he was not merely liked but indeed loved by those who worked for him.

He paid close attention to the types of films people liked to rent and has cited that experience as inspiration for his directorial career.