Interesting Quotes

• I've always thought the Nat Turner story to be very interesting.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Interesting

• The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

  

  John Berger
  • Life
  • Interesting

• I graduated from Bowdoin College and went to the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Then I left and took a job teaching really poor inner-city white kids in Boston. It was interesting to me because I'd never been around poor whites before.

  

  Geoffrey Canada
  • School
  • Job
  • Kids

• I really like the character of Jack Reacher - I thought he was interesting.

  

  Cobie Smulders
  • Character
  • Interesting

• I always feel like there are a lot of different types of favourites. There are some that I look to for interesting things, some that I look to for acting things, others that I watch again and again.

  

  Bill Pullman
  • Different
  • Interesting

• I don't like talking about my work at all. I find it very difficult. I never know what to say. It's too close to me, and there's so many things happening unconsciously while I'm working that I'm not aware of, and people will point these things out to me, and I'll say, "That's interesting." But I don't know what to make of it.

  

  Paul Auster
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Difficult

• There's an interesting story around that ["Heaven Without a Gun"], because the girl I was dating at the time got into a bike accident and couldn't make it into the studio, and the gentleman Dave Hamlin who worked on this record along with Ohad sort of took it, rearranged it. Dave went and sonically changed it and changed the keys so that Andy could sing it better. All these pieces came together that suddenly displayed that the song was meant for Andy [Kim] to sing. And he always said, "I'll never understand it, but I'll sing it with all my heart."

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • Heart
  • Song
  • Girl

• I went to a high school reunion a couple years ago and realized that the kids who were the most unusual in high school are the ones who are the most interesting now and the ones who were popular are dull and boring.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• The Babylonian and Assyrian civilizations have perished; Hammurabi, Sargon and Nebuchadnezzar are empty names; yet Babylonian mathematics is still interesting, and the Babylonian scale of 60 is still used in Astronomy.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Science
  • Civilization
  • Names

• I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Character

• Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I just always knew I wanted to be an actor. I gave my Emmy acceptance speech when I was 11. But, I wasn't allowed to do plays and things like that. It was considered dangerous. My parents didn't think it was safe for a girl to do that, and they definitely didn't think it was interesting to participate in the arts.

  

  Azita Ghanizada
  • Parents
  • Girl
  • Acceptance

• I'm not particularly a career-oriented guy. I'm lucky. I can make really interesting films much of the time with interesting people yet be anonymous, have a private life. But, I'd like to have the choice of the better roles.

  

  Aidan Quinn
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I'm not the writer who says, "You have to say it exactly as I wrote it," because you don't get good work. You want somebody who's going to bring something interesting to it and really create a character with you. You see that with certain actors.

  

  Scott Frank
  • Character
  • Actors
  • Certain

• Sports plays an interesting role in society. The greatest sportsmen have platforms to speak out on issues and really affect how the public thinks about some very critical issues facing the world.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Society

• It's kind of interesting when you sign on to a show because you're basically signing on to play a character because you only really see the first episode of the show.

  

  Megan Park
  • Character
  • Interesting

• Frankly speaking, I could never even imagine that such information would be of interest to the American public or that the campaign headquarters of one of the candidates - in this case, Mrs. [Hillary] Clinton - apparently worked for her, rather than for all the Democratic Party candidates in an equal manner. I could never assume that anybody would find it interesting.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Party
  • Imagine
  • Assuming

• I think virgins are far more interesting to write about. If we've been around the block a few times, we know what to expect. Not so with virgins.

  

  E. L. James
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Block

• The interesting thing for me is that everybody felt that I was really wild when i was unbalanced and desperate to communicate something and didn't have a sense of purpose. But I've never been so crazy and wild as I am with my son or as I am now.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Crazy
  • Purpose
  • Son

• I can't say that I wouldn't prefer to make small films, basically because I think they are probably more interesting in terms of the material. But every now and again, it's quite good to do a big one.

  

  John Hurt
  • Good
  • Small
  • Interesting

• In Maryland, I didn't grow up around poor white people. Where I grew up, the white people were middle class or upper-middle class. It's interesting how screwed up it is in reality, because most people who receive assistance from the government are white, but not in my head or in my experience.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • People
  • Up
  • Experience

• In theater, you sometimes can only do one or two jobs a year because they're long periods. In film, you can shoot so many. It's quite interesting.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Long
  • Interesting

• I think you just learn a lot of stuff in general about all the stuff he Edward Snowden released. I think there's probably a lot that we don't know. That's what is really interesting.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Thinking
  • Interesting
  • Snowden

• Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.

  

  Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Giving
  • Kind
  • Moving

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