"A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life."
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"Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far asblather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material."
"The most unpresentable persons are generally the most interesting."
"What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn."
"Some things that satisfy the rules of algebra can be interesting to mathematicians even though they don't always represent a real situation."
"The darker the character, the more interesting."
"There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting."
"The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses."
"Nothing remains interesting where anything may happen."
"If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting"
"Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it."
"Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere."
"Women who are to some extent resistant, whom one cannot possess at once, whom one does not even know at first whether one will ever possess, are the only interesting ones."
"There's a lot of stuff that happened to me when I was kinda young. Like when I was just 12, or 13 or so. It might really shock some people. It's an interesting part of my life, I hope it's in the book, I didn't check whether they put it in or not."
"Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life."
"You know who would make an interesting murder-suicide? Madeline Albright and Yanni."
"I'm really excited to act again because when I started out, there was an innocent sort of perception of the world that was coming though me, and I think now through a lot of experience and life and understanding, I've come full circle to having a purer response to things. So my craft will be really interesting to work from this place because I think acting is about being in tune with yourself - or maybe the struggle to be in tune with yourself."
"The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes. Then there is the business of surprise. I never know what is coming next. The phrase that sounds in the head changes when it appears on the page. Then I start probing it with a pen, finding new meanings. Sometimes I burst out laughing at what is happening as I twist and turn sentences. Strange business, all in all. One never gets to the end of it. That’s why I go on, I suppose. To see what the next sentences I write will be."
"In any case, it is better to have some deal than no deal, but it's interesting that Obama picked the day of implementing of Iran deal to impose new sanctions on North Korea."
"The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones."