"What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place."
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"As you read, allow your reading to cluster around your interests."
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"We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests."
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"The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest."
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"Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your interest is."
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"My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot."
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"Secrets interest us all, I think."
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"Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart."
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"Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say "their life" I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life."
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"The search for a new personality is futile; what is fruitful is the interest the old personality can take in new activities."
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"The people that are surrounding me have my best interest."
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"Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking."
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"This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me"
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"Now the new things happening in France don't interest me."
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"Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others."
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"What we take for high-mindedness is very often no other than ambition well disguised, that scorns means interests, only to pursuegreater."
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"A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders."
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"Everywhere I am the object of an unbelievable esteem, the interest in me is, quite simply, tremendous."
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"We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those loopholes closed."
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"The key is whether or not we have got priorities that are working for you, as opposed to those who have been dictating the policy in Washington lately. And that's mostly lobbyists and special interests. We have got to put an end to that."
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