Interesting Quotes

• The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Player
  • Chess
  • Foolish

• Obama and Clinton make an interesting contrast in brands.

  

  John Quelch
  • Interesting

• I can't say it was challenging for me to shake the image of Frasier. I've been fortunate to have had a very interesting career since the series ended. I think the turning point for me was the show, 'Boss.'

  

  Kelsey Grammer
  • Career
  • Interesting
  • Boss

• So in the drafting process, whenever I would discover something about what my character wanted or didn't want, I immediately just wanted my character to admit to that so I could get to the next, more interesting level in the story.

  

  Molly Antopol
  • Character
  • Stories
  • Drafting

• Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

  

  John Russell
  • Interesting

• I really did Regression to work with Alejandro Amenabar. I found him very interesting. His movie, The Others, is one of the better scary movies of the last period of time.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Work
  • Regression
  • Scary Movies

• I have, over the years brought an enormous number of plays to television starting obviously with Nicholas Nickelby and then things like Angels In America or in Wit with Emma Thompson and Mike Nichols. So, yes, I do find that very interesting and I'm sure that down the road there will be plays that I'll want to do that way.

  

  Colin Callender
  • Angel
  • Wit
  • Enormous

• I had a drummer in my band who started teaching me tricks to come up with interesting rhythms. Because I don't come from a musical background, I've never studied music, and I don't know music theory at all, so a lot of stuff I discover on my own are things students would learn in the first grade of music.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • Up
  • Music
  • Band

• 'Caroline In The City' was such an interesting thing, because I'd never been on the set of a sitcom or even auditioned for a sitcom when they gave me that part.

  

  Lea Thompson
  • Interesting
  • City

• The best hours of my life have been spent in a quiet corner or under a tree or on the beach with a book in my hands. I’ve been told on more than one occasion that I should stop reading so much and actually have a life, but do you know what I’ve figured out? People in books are much more interesting than the people who’ve told me that.

  

  Bart Yates
  • Book
  • Interesting
  • Occasion

• I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my assumptions have been. That's interesting and exciting.

  

  Antony Beevor
  • Interesting

• A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Man
  • Interesting
  • Delineation

• I would never be innovative enough to "blaze my own trail," I'm just trying to be interesting. So I don't look to anyone else as far as inspiration.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Trying
  • Enough
  • Inspiration

• Most of my songs are pretty sketchy. There's not a lot of bass sections. I don't write big bridges. Sometimes I'll try. But it's hard for me to focus that way, because I always think it's more interesting to just see what will happen next.

  

  Ryan Adams
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Song

• It is an interesting thing. Every time I try and stray from the path of food, I get whacked.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • Time
  • Food
  • Path

• I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

  

  Charles de Lint
  • Interesting
  • Chinese

• I've gotten to work with people like Kristin Chenoweth and Chita Rivera... Seeing their process is so interesting. Seeing that these people aren't immortal - that they go through the same motions as we do and ask for feedback and break down scenes... They have to work, too, and that's really exciting to see.

  

  Andrew Keenan-Bolger
  • People
  • Work
  • Interesting

• When you struggle to reach for something you don't know, that's where most of the interesting stuff is.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Interesting
  • Struggle
  • Stuff

• It's interesting to think about connecting the dots within an archive in a different way than linearly or teleologically. It's a great delight to make art or use language or just have ideas, and put them together in a very unexpected way. Art gets categorized historically, geographically, by medium, not necessarily by concept or repeating imagery, or feminism or femininity.

  

  Chitra Ganesh
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Together

• Of course, we're so lucky to be in a time where that's not our reality anymore. I just thought it was very interesting to go back to that time now, and to look at all of these issues that are still relevant today, but just in such a different way, and to see how we approach them and try to overcome them. Yeah, we've come a long way with medicine and women's health in the Western world, but in a lot of parts of the rest of the world, that's still a huge issue.

  

  Eve Hewson
  • Reality
  • Issues
  • Medicine

• It's an interesting thing about being a 'fem.' People automatically assume that I'm straight.

  

  Mary Lambert
  • People
  • Interesting

• Considering the 'Tomorrow People' are supposed to be the next step in human evolution, I think it's a fascinating idea that they can't kill. They've evolved in all these other ways, and they have these special abilities, but they can't kill. It's a very interesting concept. I really like it. I like the idea of it.

  

  Luke Mitchell
  • People
  • Interesting

• Success is never so interesting as struggle

  

  Willa Cather
  • Success
  • Interesting
  • Struggle

• The nature of making music and making art, what motivates me is that it's interesting. It's interesting to listen, to really listen to other people's point-of-view. Take in their work. Listen to the way they sing. Listen to the way they write lyrics. What they are trying to express.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

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