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“Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.”

People Ifs Way Want Different Sometimes Play Interesting Opinion Roles One Thing Going To Work Interesting Things Typecasting

Author:Aaron Tveit

“It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.”

People Young Interesting Instinct Maternal Instinct

Author:Holland Taylor

“Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere and he has a tendency to say them at exactly the time when they most undermine the conservative agenda.”

Wells Interesting Conservative Tendencies Occasions Agendas Insightful Speakers Outrageous

Author:Jim Talent

“Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.”

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Author:Lea Thompson

“'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.”

Interesting Cities Interesting Things Sitcom

Author:Lea Thompson

“People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.”

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Author:Tate Taylor

“And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.”

Ifs Writing Care Interesting Havens Blogs

Author:Uma Thurman

“For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I've always been interested in psychology and how people's minds operate. But I'm able to explore some of that as an actor and ultimately I think it seems more interesting.”

People Thinking Mind Seems Able School Actors Interesting Study Psychology Becoming Doctors Medicine Becoming A Doctor

Author:Rumer Willis

“I've always admired Cate Blanchett and the roles she chooses. I think she's got an incredible discipline in a way, with choosing roles that are going to help her grow and bring something interesting to the world.”

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Author:Gemma Ward

“Obviously sex and nudity sells, but that's what people go to cable for but that's not going to happen on network daytime television... so I think it really is always going to come down to story. How do you make a story interesting enough so people will tune in? That's always going to be it.”

People Thinking Enough Stories Happens Sex Interesting Television Sells Tunes Cables Nudity Daytime

Author:Jack Wagner

“Some of the most interesting questions needing to be asked today can best be asked on television, or on stage, and they can be wonderful, great dramas, but they won't necessarily be blockbusters.”

Today Interesting Wonderful Stage Television Drama Most Interesting Blockbuster

Author:Julie Walters

“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.”

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Author:Kerry Washington

“My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.”

Mind Firsts Made Book Bigs Age School Life Is Spirit Universe Interesting High School Concepts Meetings My Favorite Make Sense New Age Introduction Wrinkles Favorite Book Wrinkle In Time

Author:Mae Whitman

“Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.”

Thinking Said Play Mother Interesting Roles Exciting Deeper Teenager

Author:Naomi Watts

“I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.”

People Thinking Believe Interesting Fascinated

Author:Patrick Wilson

“Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea.”

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Author:Rick Yune

“I think phone cases will always be novelties, but there's always so many interesting phone cases I like phone cases and I think the sillier the better - but this is a cool take on it.”

Thinking Interesting Cases Phones Novelty

Author:Skrillex

“The process of making music is more interesting to me than the end result. If I was a cook, I'd be more interested in cooking food than eating food.”

Ifs Ends Process Interesting Results Eating Music Is Cooking Cooks End Results Eating Food

Author:Ryan Adams

“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.”

Thinking Way Writing Trying Sometimes Hard Bigs Happens Song Next Interesting Focus Bridges Sections Bass Sketchy

Author:Ryan Adams

“Sometimes I'll be channel surfing or something, and I'll see a glimpse of something, and I'll quickly turn the sound down, and then what I look at, that's an interesting movie. But it's not me who made it. It's whoever that guy I was 10 years ago who made it.”

Years Looks Made Sometimes Guy Turns Sound Interesting Years Ago Down And Made It Glimpse Surfing That Guy

Author:Andrew Niccol

“... coming to a place like Nashville, which is just music music music, it's always been such an influence on me. And there are so many interesting songwriters out there, and it's such a crazy business and so many people are trying to do it, and it's all right there in Nashville.”

People Trying Interesting Crazy Influence Songwriters Nashville

Author:Sandra Bernhard

“Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In Zen we approach everything backwards or inside out.”

People Way Inspirational Interesting Buddhism Approach Horse Backwards Carts Interesting Ways

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I can conceive of no greater, more romantic and interesting adventure than to undertake to live like Jesus in this complicated day.”

I Can Christian Jesus Interesting Greater Adventure Complicated Christian Inspirational

Author:Vance Havner

“The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.”

Kind Stuff Interesting Acting Interesting Things Catharsis

Author:Melanie Lynskey

“Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.”

People Wells Has Beens Facts Interesting Intelligent Disappointed Something Interesting Keep Your Faith

Author:Richard Linklater

“The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.”

Shows Able Film Used Interesting Gone Worst Used To Be Worst Things Campus

Author:Richard Linklater

“I did the first study because I had been exposed to something that I took to be important and interesting - this thought reform process - in the military.”

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Author:Robert Jay Lifton

“From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.”

Ifs Knows World Kind Would Be Understanding Interesting Childhood Scientist Relevant Outside World Inner World Chemist Early Childhood

Author:Stephen LaBerge

“With drama, especially, it seems like the bigger the budgets and the edgier the characters, the more interesting they are. We're very lucky because 'Modern Family' wouldn't fit on cable: they'd want us to push it more and be edgier and turn it into something that it's not.”

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Author:Steven Levitan

“You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.”

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Author:Zachary Levi

“A girl who is interesting and educated and can spark conversation - I find that extremely sexy.”

Girl Interesting Conversation Sexy Educated Sparks

Author:Beau Mirchoff

“If you make something good and interesting and not ridiculing someone or being offensive, the creators of the original material will like it.”

Ifs Interesting Materials Originals Creator Offensive

Author:Christian Marclay

“Most of us are waiting. We're waiting for something interesting to happen. And I think we're going to wait forever if we don't do something more interesting with our lives.”

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Author:Donald Miller

“I love working with male actors, and I think there's a tendency to write really interesting characters that would work solely alongside men where they would be in a man's world and have to deal with that, and it creates a lot of interesting storylines. For me, it's kind of circumstantial, but I definitely enjoy it.”

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Author:Elisabeth Moss

“If you're working with someone who you get on with and you're supposed to hate them on the screen, then you get this playful challenge thing where you're trying to one-up each other and that's really interesting. Sometimes it can become like tennis. The harder you hit the ball back, then the harder the hit it back to you.”

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Author:Joseph Morgan

“I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Reality Language Interesting Math Physics Compelling Scenarios Really Cool Entry Disconnected

Author:Randall Munroe

“Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I’m going to do that.”

Ifs Want Made Wanted Actors Opportunity Fun Decision Interesting Projects Juilliard

Author:Anthony Mackie

“I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.”

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Author:China Mieville

“Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.”

Writing Firsts Book Voice Interesting Vary

Author:China Mieville

“I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.”

Thinking Real Self Interesting Quality Awareness Conscious Prose Tragic Self Conscious Conscious Awareness

Author:China Mieville

“Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies.”

Strong My Own Interesting Concepts Harmony Strive Intense Melody Ingredients Brazilian Music

Author:Chuck Mangione

“I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.”

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Author:Don McLean

“I thought a circus environment would be an interesting venue to explore, where you didn't just have one tent with three rings and a show going on but where you could explore different things in different tents.”

Different Shows Would Be Three Interesting Environment Rings Different Things Circus Tents Venues

Author:Erin Morgenstern

“By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.”

Faces Interesting Quality Definitions Poetry Is Phenomenon Mainstream Reluctant Dynamics Radar Mainstream Society

Author:David Whyte

“It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.”

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Author:Meles Zenawi

“There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.”

Interesting Class Limits Exciting Unpredictable

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.”

Knows Doe Opportunity Interesting Development Reader Suspense Plot Shifting Get Real Really Interesting Narrators

Author:Sara Zarr

“I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don't think it's so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don't want to do that.”

Thinking Want Important Challenges Interesting Projects Europe Hollywood Trash

Author:Zhang Ziyi

“Maybe what life needs is a good soundtrack, especially during the long stretches when nothing interesting is being said. A soundtrack might dignify things a bit, ennobling us with the proper drama and tension and pathos.”

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Book:Losing Julia

Source: Losing Julia

“I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.”

Thinking Way Needs Seems Order Culture Interesting Sake Pops Museums Engaging Pop Culture

Author:John Hodgman

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