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"I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go."
"Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time."
"A lie to get out of something, or take an advantage for oneself, that’s one thing; but a lie to make life more interesting—well, that’s entirely different."
"As I talk about strengths and weaknesses in academic economics, one interesting fact you are entitled to know is that I never took a course in economics. And with this striking lack of credentials, you may wonder why I have the chutzpah to be up here giving this talk. The answer is I have a black belt in chutzpah. I was born with it."
"If an artist is any good at all, then he or she will have a later phase that's more interesting than the early one."
"My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff."
"It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I"."
"Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself."
"Like when I host a party. I hope my guests get along. But if not, how interesting!"
"The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting."
"I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success."
"The king hath note of all that they intend, by interception which they dream not of."
"We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy."
"You make films whether they're dramas or comedies about neurotic people. Flawed people. Interesting personality traits. To make them about calm, stable untroubled people isn't interesting."
"I can't imagine any director directing a screenplay of mine, because the great directors all have very personal styles, and the ones that don't are not very interesting directors."
"When you want to become free, your righteousness and anger are much less interesting than they used to be."
"I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not care for that enormous brand of natural history which deals with invertebrates any more than why I do not care for brandied peaches. All I can say is that almost as soon as I began to read at all I began to like to read about the natural history of beasts and birds and the more formidable or interesting reptiles and fishes."
"Correct is fine but it is better to be interesting"
"It used to be irritating just because someone can meet you and before they would get a chance to get to know you, they’ll go find someone else’s story about who I am. For me personally, I just always think it’s more interesting to get to know the person myself."
"Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral: a thing as simple and specious as a statue to the first glance, and yet on examination, as lively and interesting as a forest in detail."
