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“Every child has inside him an aching void for excitement and if we don't fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and good for him, he will fill it with something which is exciting and interesting and which isn't good for him.”

Ifs Children Interesting Exciting Excitement Void

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“You know, when you're in your twenties you use a great deal of symbolism. You somehow think that a character standing beneath a cross is more interesting than a character standing underneath a billboard, but when you get a little older you realize that there's not much difference.”

Thinking Knows Littles Character Use Realizing Differences Interesting Deals Standing Crosses Twenties Symbolism Billboards

Author:Paul Schrader

“Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.”

Thinking Care Interesting Who Cares Being Cool

Author:Aimee Mann

“And I think Taylor Swift is just an exemplary young lady. It's kind of interesting to see what a profound songwriter she is. I don't even think anyone has realized, the long term is going to be the bigger revelation. It's incredible how quickly she writes songs. We've hung out a couple times, we live near each other in Nashville.”

Thinking Writing Kind Long Young Song Term Interesting Couple Bigger Profound Incredibles Long Term Revelations Hung Songwriters Nashville Young Ladies Exemplary

Author:Reese Witherspoon

“It's much more important to be interested than to be interesting.”

Important Interesting

Author:Jane Fonda

“You know what is interesting, Condit is very conservative. He voted to post the ten commandments in schools. Yet, he himself broke the 11th commandment, 'Thou shall not put thy rod in thy staff.'”

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Author:Jay Leno

“Im attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.”

Wells Seems Fun Enjoy Challenges Interesting Audience

Author:Kevin Spacey

“Its interesting to play a politician who gets stuff done.”

Done Play Stuff Interesting Politician

Author:Kevin Spacey

“When coming up with Wonder Woman cover designs, sometimes people will pitch ideas to me, either the writer or the editor. And it's interesting, because I know they're not trying to, but they end up pitching things that end up feeling like damsel-in-distress covers, where the tension comes from her needing to be rescued somehow. And it's something I immediately push back against.”

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Author:Cliff Chiang

“It's an interesting job, it's a fascinating job, I can't imagine anything that would have given me more satisfaction, and not everything I did was awful, but it was just writing another story in a world that's full of stories.”

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Author:Dennis O'Neil

“Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.”

Knows Interesting Talking Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Fisherman

Author:Arthur Ransome

“It was interesting to have both very a conservative and very liberal parent, because we deal with both these elements in the world and we have both elements within ourselves.”

World Parent Interesting Deals Elements Conservative Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The teaching process becomes most interesting for spiritual seekers once they've managed to hit the lower samadhis. However at that point many seekers become very egotistical.”

Spiritual Process Interesting Teaching Seekers Most Interesting Egotistical Samadhi

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sven's actual results on the park were not quite good enough to make him a hero, and not quite bad enough to get him the sack, so he left the gentlemen of the press with something of a void. And they abhor a void. Soon the discovery that Sven was in fact a hammer-man of legendary proportions filled the void, until the media came to realise that Sven was that rare thing, a man whose astonishing success with women somehow didn't make him more interesting.”

“Dark, subtle, complex, wicked - if only Hollywood movies were half as interesting as Hollywood accounting.”

Ifs Film Dark Interesting Half Hollywood Complexes Wicked Subtle Accounting Hollywood Movies

Author:Stephen Metcalf

“Tennis is a traditional game. A big sport like tennis does not need too many changes. The game has become too fast, there are hardly any long, interesting rallies these days. So maybe slowing down the courts could help. But you can't really stop a sport from evolving.”

Needs Long Doe Helping Bigs Games Sports Interesting Court Traditional Evolve These Days Tennis Slow Down Slowing

Author:Bjorn Borg

“The most interesting guy I've ever played with was King Hassan of Morocco. I went over there on a trip in the early 1970s, and the King and I played five holes. I've never been that nervous in my life.”

Guy Sports Interesting Five Kings Holes Nervous Most Interesting Morocco Hassan

Author:Lee Trevino

“The smaller man approaching our modern banking system, which controls all issue of credit and therefore pretty well all our industrial and commercial activities, is not what the controllers of that credit call "interesting." He borrows with difficulty and upon high terms, and must pledge security out of all proportion to that which his richer rival has to put down.”

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Book:The Crisis Of Civilization

Source: The Crisis Of Civilization

“The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.”

Wisdom Politics Interesting Economy Circumstances Property Valuable Our Family Liberalism Belonging Ancestry Perpetuating

Book:Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace

Source: Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace

“I have done scenes as Harvey Two-Face. It's interesting. I won't tell you exactly what we're going for, but I think that I can say that it will use all of today's technology to create this character. He's going to be interesting, and I think that's what makes this character important in the movie-you get to see him as he was before, as in the comic books. Harvey is a very good guy in the comic books. He's judicious. He cares. He's passionate about what he loves and then he turns into this character. So you will see that in this film.”

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Author:Aaron Eckhart

“It's interesting because you feel on the one hand, we understand people from what the say, and in another sense, you'd think that you'd be able to convey more through dialogue.”

People Thinking Feels Hands Able Interesting Dialogue

Author:Adrien Brody

“I read the script and I really liked it. It was high energy, crazy and it goes to any level to get people nuts and I thought Eve was an interesting character. At first I didn't get her, so it made me want to do the role because I wanted to dive in and see what she was about. On top of that I also wanted to work with Jason Statham because he's an amazing actor.”

People Want Firsts Made Character Wanted Actors Energy Interesting Levels Roles Crazy Scripts Nuts Jason Interesting Characters High Energy

Author:Amy Smart

“Yes, I direct commercials as well. I get these really weird offers and then I have to bid on them and win the job. One offer that I have now, and I've already done this last year for the same company, is for Cash Value Cheese, this cheese out in the midwest. I did two spots for them last year and I'm going to probably do three this year. I also did some for the Utah Transit Authority, which was weird and interesting and they turned out really funny - they actually won an award.”

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Author:Andy Dick

“I was a big fan of Joe's film, Narc, so when you hear there's a script coming over from Joe Carnahan, you know it's going to be interesting because he has such a fresh voice.”

Knows Bigs Film Voice Interesting Fans Scripts

Author:Andy Garcia

“The size of budgets does not alter my decision if I should do it. If there's a movie with a budget of only $1 million that I find interesting, then I'll sign up, but it has to be in the hands of a director who can do something with it. Ultimately, it's a director's medium.”

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Author:Andy Garcia

“I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.”

Knows Interesting Wonderful Materials Comfortable Interesting Things Wonderful Times

Author:F. Murray Abraham

“Survivor has been such a hit, and out of that have come so many interesting stories from people that we don't see on the big screen. We have helped make them incredible celebrities.”

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Author:Mary Hart

“It's certainly more interesting for me as an actor, but I think it's also more interesting for the audience to see three-dimensional characters, rather than just a bad guy or a good guy.”

Thinking Character Guy Three Actors Interesting Audience Bad Guys Good Guy

Author:Nicholas Lea

“Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting.”

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Author:Radha Mitchell

“We thought about it, what we want to tell, and I didn't want to move it directly into the Nazi times. I thought it's much more interesting to see how BloodRayne became BloodRayne.”

Want Moving Interesting Nazi

Author:Uwe Boll

“You have to have pace, you have to have high production values, you have to have interesting graphics, and you have to have attractive people - CNN could afford not to be so obedient to those commands, and for a long time, it wasn't.”

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Author:Brit Hume

“It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing you can be pretty sure of. The Afghan peasants who grow poppies won't get rich. The money will end up in places like Dubai.”

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Author:Bruce Sterling

“The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.”

Ifs Mind Facts Literature Interesting Tests Interesting Things Changing Your Mind

Author:Diane Sawyer

“Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“The Swords were still interesting but by then a cast of characters had started to appear and go on from book to book, and other things about the world began to feel constricting. And there were other things I wanted to do, so I closed the series up and stopped it.”

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Author:Fred Saberhagen

“Jackson and I spent the day together, just me and him and his children. Little underlings came and went. The P.R. person came and went... It was just Michael and me and the kids. And it was very, very interesting.”

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Author:Geraldo Rivera

“In those days, in Far Rockaway, there was a youth center for Jewish kids at the temple.... Somebody nominated me for president of the youth center. The elders began getting nervous, because I was an avowed atheist by that time.... I thought nature itself was so interesting that I didn't want it distorted like that. And so I gradually came to disbelieve the whole religion.”

Want Whole Kids President Interesting Atheism Youth Atheist Nervous Temples Elders

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down.”

Ifs Book Country Would Be Literature Interesting New York Position Experiments New York Times

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.”

People Funny Interesting Smart Most Interesting

Author:Tucker Carlson

“The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.”

People Way Giving Two Interesting Atheism Positive Atheism Testament Deities

Book:What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

Source: What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings

“Golf gives no margin: either you win or you fail. You cannot hedge; you cannot bluff; you cannot give a stop order. One chance is given you, and you hit or miss. There is nothing more rigid in life. And it is this ultra and extreme rigidity that makes golf so intensely interesting.”

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Book:The Mystery of Golf

Source: The Mystery of Golf

“You have everything in you that Buddha has, that Christ has. You've got it all. But only when you start to acknowledge it is it going to get interesting. Your problem is you're afraid to acknowledge your own beauty. You're too busy holding on to your own unworthiness. You'd rather be a schnook sitting before some great man. That fits in more with who you think you are. Well, enough already. I sit before you and I look and I see your beauty, even if you don't.”

Ifs Thinking Men Wells Looks Self Enough Problem Christ Interesting Fit Sitting Busy Acknowledge Great Men Holding On Too Busy Enough Already

Author:Ram Dass

“I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them.”

People Thinking Love Is Interesting Attention Effects Admire Being Famous Getting Laid

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“I had a number of great teachers and the ones that really were the strongest influences on me were women. They were really, really smart and interesting women.”

Interesting Numbers Teacher Influence Smart Strongest Great Teacher Really Smart

Author:Meryl Streep

“The barrier between TV and movies has come down and film actors are willing to do TV and vice versa, because they just want to follow what's interesting.”

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Author:Tina Fey

“I don't have very much interest in trends and fashions. I don't follow the fashion shows and stuff like that into my real life. But I'm very, very interested in how people put themselves together, how women and men announce themselves to the world, through what they put on their bodies. Whether we choose Birkenstocks or whether we choose Burberry - it all signifies something and it's really interesting to me.”

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Author:Meryl Streep

“It is interesting how fashion filters down and we discover in the "Devil Wears Prada" that we're all prey to trends, even if we think we are not.”

Ifs Thinking Interesting Fashion Devil Down And Trends Prey Filters Prada Devil Wears Prada

Author:Meryl Streep

“Generally, the bigger the budget, the less interesting the characters become.”

Character Interesting Bigger Budgets

Author:Matt Damon

“I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks. By the fourth week, I found it tedious. I got bored and grew restless. I had no other plan for a job, because from seventh grade on, I had planned on law. So I shifted my focus from classes to extracurricular activities.”

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Author:Demetri Martin

“Think about the way you go surfing on the Internet - you go from one thing to another. You can't really concentrate. I can't sit and read 10 pages on my computer. You'll read and then all of a sudden part of your brain is like, "What about that? ...You're not reading the whole book. You're reading fragments. Even though I think it's bad, I think it's interesting too, because that's the way my brain works.”

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Author:Ali Banisadr

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