“I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.” PeoplePlayCharacterDesireInterestingViewsRaceIssuesRight NowTheaterFilledVery InterestingPersonal Views Author:Kerry Washington
“When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves, they think more clearly, their secret worries drop away, the world is fresh and interesting, and they can do more than they dreamed that they could do. In love of this kind sexual intimacy is not the dead end of desire as it is in romantic or promiscuous love, but periodic affirmation of the inward delight of desire pervading an active life.” ThinkingMenWorldKindEndsWholeDesireCan DoWalksInterestingSecretWorryActivityMen And WomenDelightActiveIntimacyInwardAffirmationDigestionDead EndsPromiscuousActive Life Author:Walter Lippmann
“[Drawing should be] a journey of pleasure. Each step must present to the travellers' view objects that are eminently interesting, varied in their appearances, and attracting to such a degree as to excite in each individual thus happily employed the desire of knowing all respecting all he sees.” ShouldDesireIndividualPleasureInterestingViewsStepsKnowingJourneyObjectsDegreesAppearanceDrawingEmployedTraveller Book:Writings and Drawings Source: Writings and Drawings
“For all my desire to be interesting, I have to confess that for most things and people I don't give a damn.” PeopleGivingDesireInterestingDamnDon't Give A DamnI Don't Give A Damn Author:H. G. Wells
“My fiction is almost always inspired by a character's need or desire to rise above him- or herself. No one is perfect and some of us have much adversity in our lives; it is those people who struggle to rise above their nature or background that I find the most interesting and heroic.” PeopleNeedsCharacterDesirePerfectInterestingFictionStruggleOur LivesAdversityInspiredBackgroundsHeroicRise AboveMost Interesting Author:Robert Crais
“A tender young cork, however, would have had no more chance against a pair of corkscrews, or a tender young tooth against a pair of dentists, or a little shuttlecock against two battledores, than I had against Uriah and Mrs. Heep. They did just what they liked with me; and wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell, with a certainty I blush to think of.” ThinkingLittlesTwoCharacterYoungDesireChanceInterestingTeethCertaintyPairsDentistInteresting CharactersCorkShuttlecock Book:Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times Source: Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times
“It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.” PeopleThinkingPlaySpiritDesireGamesInterestingInvolvedDegreesAmbitionDramaticRoughCompetitive Spirit Author:Beau Willimon