"It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized."
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"To be interesting, one has to provoke."
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"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
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"The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that is most interesting."
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"Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding."
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"Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings."
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"One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it."
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"The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting."
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"I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet."
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"You can slow time down by traveling. That month from Shringar to the Taj Mahal is like a year in my life currently. Really, time is a measure of change, in a vacuum time doesn't exist because nothing's changing. If you can pack your life full of interesting changes you stretch it out. So if you want to live longer, have a really interesting life."
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"Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough."
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"If you want to be a good conversationalist, be a good listener. To be interesting, be interested."
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"It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important."
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"If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get this playful challenge thing where you're trying to one-up each other and that's really interesting. Sometimes it can become like tennis. The harder you hit the ball back, then the harder the hit it back to you."
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"I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies."
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"If everybody likes you, you are not a very interesting person."
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"The process of building trust is an interesting one, but it begins with yourself, with what I call self trust, and with your own credibility, your own trustworthiness. If you think about it, it's hard to establish trust with others if you can't trust yourself."
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"I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting."
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"The more difficult a problem becomes, the more interesting it is."
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"Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience."
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