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"Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached."
"Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence."
"No one I knew talked about money. It's not an area of interest."
"Wanting to do one thing can require that you take on other interests."
"I live with someone, actor Peter Krause, who didn't find an interest in being an actor until the very end of college. So my message is: There's so much freedom left. There's no ticking clock. It's just not true."
"It's the irrational things that interest me."
"You don't do things for shock value anymore, because that's not even the language of today. At least, that's not what interests me. If I do it, it's because I want to see things in another way, not necessarily because I want to shock anybody."
"We've been sending billions and billions of dollars to Israel and Egypt for decades to keep the peace. So as an American taxpayer, I have an interest in this. It's galling to feel that as an American I have a higher stake, a higher interest in peace than you do."
"The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest."
"We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest."
"That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest."
"None of the Christian religions do [interest me]. They're all outer-directed."
"I've always had an interest in Louisiana, especially New Orleans."
"NATO is in our national security interests. And, yes, we pay a lot for it, but, when we had Afghanistan, NATO troops were by our side from almost all of the NATO members. And they put their life and treasure on the line for us."
"The NATO alliance is not just a transactional relationship, once again. That alliance serves our interests. That alliance has been critical to keeping security in Europe, so that we do not face another world war."
"All spiritual interests are supported by animal life."
"To have an interest in both sexes is equally normal. Whether it's practiced or not is something else. Some do. Some don't."
"A garden is mainly ...a space around which interests can be accumulated."
"I do not like to "interest" the public with myself."
"States are violent to the extent that they have the power to act in the interests of those with domestic power"
