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“What I find interesting about folklore is the dialogue it gives us with storytellers from centuries past.”

Giving Past Interesting Century Dialogue Storyteller Folklore

Author:Terri Windling

“What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written about by women that is doing well in the culture. We're seeing more women writing dystopian fiction, more women writing novels set post-apocalyptic settings, subjects and themes that used to be dominated by men.”

“What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the house genuinely doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. Custard pie humour is fairly universal, but at the other end, which I'm more interested in, there's the humour that hovers on the darkness, that walks in the shadow of something else, not always that obvious.”

Knows Ends Running House Walks Interesting Half Darkness Laughing Cry Humour Laughter Shadow Crosses Universal Obvious Crafts Pie Seriousness Custard

Author:Alan Ayckbourn

“What I find interesting is that the people that follow your Twitters are called 'followers.' Talk about false idolatry, right?”

People Interesting Followers Idolatry

Author:Emilio Estevez

“What I find interesting is this ricochet effect, that the audience perceives the work and then does something with it, throws it back to the world, and there's an ongoing interaction between work and audience, which doesn't belong to the artist anymore - from the moment you release it, it doesn't belong to anybody.”

World Moments Artist Interesting Audience Perceive

Author:Cate Blanchett

“What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.”

People Book Moving Understanding Bills Congress Civics

Author:Sam Brownback

“What I find is that many times when I work with chance, with indeterminacy, I am more open to experience, less prone to a fixed process, and I think it creates a very important challenge. It creates a way of writing that is, in a way, flatter or smooth, a surface conducive to release, to movement. And in this way, the form of writing gets delightfully melded with the process of the writing.”

Thinking Way Writing Important Form Process Challenges Chance Movement Surface Release Fixed Smooth

Author:Sergio Chejfec

“What I find is that the taking, the stealing, the appropriation of images has to do with prior availability, and it sets up a degree where things can be shared... It's like 50% off... You can let something of another emotion or another personality sign on your work, or co-sign it.”

Emotion Personality Degrees Stealing Availability Appropriation

Author:Richard Prince

“What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. At the bottom, there's really not that much difference between Christians and Muslims and Hindus and Buddhists. We all worship God.”

Believe Humans Christian Differences Human Beings Worship Bottom Buddhist Worship God

Author:Dennis Quaid

“What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere, if you're not in a hurry.”

Ifs Life Can Do

Author:Paul Theroux

Source: The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific

“What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative.”

Style Males Dues Colleagues Deference

Author:Susan Collins

“What I find more remarkable, however, is how readily many people in our society believe outlandish and unsubstantiated urban myths and conspiracies (Pop Rocks and Coke, JFK assassination, AIDS is man-made, etc.), yet disregard thousands of personal and consistent testimonies of miracles and near-death experiences from people throughout all cultures and religions.”

“What I find most appalling is the Senate calls it a qualified blind trust when it's not blind. Since the Senate says it's OK, the Senate has made it a political question. It's up to the voter. But there's no doubt it's a conflict of interest.”

Made Political Interest Doubt Conflict Blind Made It No Doubt Voters Senate Blindness Qualified Conflict Of Interest Blind Trust

Author:Kathleen Clark

“What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but in the height of flu season, it makes no sense.”

Looks Seasons Height Holiday Valentine Valentine's Day Disturbing Flu

Author:Lewis Black

“What I find most injurious to mankind in modern advertising is the constant appeal to material standards and values, the elevating of material things into an end in themselves, a virtue.”

Ends Values Virtue Modern Mankind Materials Standards Constant Advertising Appeals Material Things Elevating Standards And Values

Author:Ann Bridge

Source: Singing Waters

“What I find most interesting in fashion is that it has to reflect our time. You have to witness your own moment.”

Moments Interesting Fashion Witness Our Time Most Interesting

Author:Nicolas Ghesquiere

“What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.”

People Way Used Motivation Felt Interesting Taken Attributes Most Interesting Linux

Author:Linus Torvalds

“What I find most upsetting about this new all-consuming beauty culture is that the obsession with good looks, and how you can supposedly attain them, is almost entirely female-driven.”

Looks Culture Female Driven Obsession Upset Looking Good Consuming

Author:Julie Burchill

“What I find on the Internet is fascinating because whole subcultures are developing. And they really are cultures. They have their art forms, their music, and their language. They have their spirituality, they have new names. It's almost like watching colonies of little organisms develop under a petri dish. You can really see these cultures swarming and growing and developing and spawning on the Internet.”

Littles Art Whole Form Culture Spirituality Names Language Growing Internet Developing Fascinating Dishes Organisms Colony Subculture

Author:Jean Houston

“What I find powerful is a person with the confidence to be her own self.”

Persons Self Powerful

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“What I find predictable is crazy people's ability to predict that unpredictable people can be predicted by their consistent unpredictable behavior, thus making all crazy people predictable when the world says they are unpredictable. Therefore, I must be “right” because I can predict crazy because I have been trained in the unpredictable nature of consistent craziness because I am crazy.”

“What I find really astonishing is how quiet everybody is in my industry. I mean, nobody in the entertainment business except for maybe a handful of people ever speak out about what's going on. Nobody takes a political stance or expresses an opinion.”

People Mean Political Speak Opinion Industry Quiet Entertainment Handful Astonishing Speaks Out Stance Entertainment Business

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn up in London and you've just rewritten Dickens. And, of course, then you think, 'What have I done?”

Thinking Knows Littles Done Might Turns Courses Trouble Dangerous London Attractive Dickens

Author:Peter Carey

“What I find really difficult is making career decisions.”

Difficult Decision Careers

Author:Paul Walker

“What I find really difficult is making career decisions. Normally it will take me two weeks, until the very last minute and I have to say yes or no. For a couple of weeks, I will tune everyone out who is giving me advice, so that I can make a clear decision on my own and it takes time.”

Giving I Can Two Lasts Difficult My Own Decision Careers Clear Week Minutes Advice Couple Tunes Take Me Take Time Two Weeks It Takes Time Last Minute Yes Or No

Author:Paul Walker

“What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.”

Want Trying Different Interesting Risk Comfort Scared Zone Different Things Comfort Zone Really Interesting

Author:Michael Fassbender

“What I find really works for me is dry body brushing; it helps improve the circulation and exfoliates your skin.”

Helping Body Skins Dry Circulation Brushing

Author:Miranda Kerr

“What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.”

People Self Choices Interesting Effects Behavior Sense Of Self

Author:Laura Linney

“What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.”

Ifs Way Sometimes Play Actors Too Much Particular Scene Locked Tricky Immediacy

Author:Tom Cruise

“What I find the challenge is with working with, say, digital machines - performing electronic music - is that when we play instruments there's a physical act that results in a physical vibration. There's a mapping between our exertions and resultant vibrations, or resonance.”

Challenges Performing Electronic Music

Author:Vijay Iyer

“What I find them struggling most isn't with one of the twelve [things from daily list]; I find them struggling with what decisions to make.”

Decision Struggle Lists Twelve

Author:John C. Maxwell

“What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly be given. If we write simply about what we know we never grow. We don't develop any facility for languages, or an interest in others, or a desire to travel and explore and face experience head-on. We just coil tighter and tighter into our boring little selves. What one should write about is what interests one.”

Ifs Knows Should Writing Littles Self Faces Desire Language Given Grows Interest Advice Stupid Boring Sentences Facility Tiresome Bad Advice Interest In Others

Author:Annie Proulx

“What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.”

Trying Country Speak Being Yourself

Author:Freya Stark

Source: Letters: The furnace and the cup, 1914-30

“What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic for who they are and comfortable with themselves. And I think with those two things sexual energy does come out because you're not hovering or censoring yourself, you're just being who you are. And being who you are is a very attractive quality in a person.”

“What I find very interesting about the mutual funds managers is that here are people who are the new masters of the universe. They're managing billions, yet they're subject to this quiet daily tyranny of numbers.”

People Universe Interesting Numbers Subjects Masters Quiet Billions Tyranny Managers Fund Mutual Very Interesting Mutual Fund

Author:Ron Chernow

“What I found about the blues and music, tracing things back, was that nothing came from itself.”

Music Blues Origins Of Music

Author:Keith Richards

Source: Life

“What I found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it;nothing very bad could happen to you there.”

Looks Doe Happens Found Proud Calm Taxi Quietness Giggle Aspirin Breakfast At Tiffanys Tiffany's

Author:Truman Capote

Source: Breakfast at Tiffany's

“What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.”

Young Found Black Lines Clear Player Talent Color Majors Broke League Branches Fascinating Owners Hiring Jackie Major League

Author:Walter Dean Myers

“What I Found in My Desk A ripe peach with an ugly bruise, a pair of stinky tennis shoes, a day-old ham-and-cheese on rye, a swimsuit that I left to dry, a pencil that glows in the dark, some bubble gum found in the park, a paper bag with cookie crumbs, an old kazoo that barely hums, a spelling test I almost failed, a letter that I should have mailed, and one more thing, I must confess, a note from teacher: Clean This Mess!!!!”

Author:Bruce Lansky

“What I found interesting about Slava Fetisov was that he went through three different generations of Soviet hockey. In the late 70's, he experienced the Miracle on Ice, and then in the 80's became with his teammates the Russian Five, the most dominant team in the history of hockey, and then helped bring down the hockey system when the Soviet Union collapsed and became one of the first players to play in the NHL, and then ultimately came back to Russia.”

Firsts Different Play Three Found Interesting Five Player Generations Team Late Miracle Unions Russia Ice Hockey Soviet Dominant Soviet Union Teammate Nhl Different Generations

Author:Gabe Polsky

“What I found interesting in dance is the idea that my work has always been dealing with the nervousness between the human subject as a subject and the human subject as a form. And if you look at my dance films, there are always these cuts between the dancer as a form, the dancer as a subject, and this kind of very harsh treatment of the dancer as someone who's actually drawing with their body.”

Kind Film Interesting Cutting Dancer Harsh Nervousness

Author:Elad Lassry

“What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything down and find the kind of essence, the skeleton if you like, which can then be fleshed out by performance and cinematography.”

Ifs Writing Kind Found Interesting Novel Essence Performances Down And Obvious Screenplays Skeletons Cinematography Obvious Things

Author:Salman Rushdie

“What I found is that just in the lifestyle today, people have fewer and fewer opportunities to get exercise.”

People Today Found Opportunity Exercise Lifestyle Fewer

Author:Shigeru Miyamoto

“What I found is, really, you always have to begin by nailing what is true about you, because something that works very well for someone else might not work for you at all.”

Wells Might Found

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“What I found most fun is just trying to get other people to crack up. That's always something that will help a movie and I've been lucky enough to have been able to work with some incredibly talented, collaborative comedy people in all of the stuff that I've been in. If you can get people laughing, cast or crew, you're going to have a good end product.”

People Trying Enough Helping Fun Laughing Comedy Lucky

Author:Joe Lo Truglio

“What I found most interesting about Session C was the unique window it provided the CEO into the business. It was "boundaryless" before the word came into favor as a GE company value. It was functionally agnostic and part of a more extensive system managed by the top executive with ties to the board of directors, corporate and operating executives, and various management levels. No one could claim outright ownership for it, but everyone was intimately involved.”

Talent Management General Electric Process Design

Author:Paul Pierroz

Source: The Purpose-Driven Marketing Handbook: How to Discover Your Impact and Communicate Your Business Sustainability Story to Grow Sales, Retain Talent, and Attract Investors

“What I found most ironic is that the safest part for us as journalists was during the actual war. Back then, during that stage of fighting, we were not targets. After the war itself, during the first month or two, it was extremely safe. We could go anywhere in Iraq, talk to anyone, and didn't have to worry about anything.”

Firsts Two War Fighting Found Worry Stage Months Safe Iraq Journalist Target Ironic

Author:Yaroslav Trofimov

“What I found out about myself was I am not someone who doesn't believe in marriage.”

Author:Jen Kirkman

“What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.”

Way Spirit Found Understood Tradition Oneness Fascinating Satisfying Hinduism Dharma Inclusiveness Hindu Religion Satisfying Work

Author:Radhanath Swami

“What I found was an ability to enjoy writing again, because I stopped making it about wanting to be the best, or wanting to be better than some past version of myself, or better than other people I admire a lot who write YA fiction. Instead of seeing it as a pyramid, or something that you're trying to get to the top of; I started seeing it as a huge ball that I'm trying to, like, contribute one layer of paint to. Lots of other people are contributing layers of paint, and through that the ball gets more beautiful and more interesting, and also bigger. And instead of me needing to be at the top of my game somehow, what I can really do I think in the end, is contribute in a small way to a very big conversation that's very old. And that's what art is for me.”

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Author:John Green