“I'm just an entertainer. In a way crime stories are boring. A crime's been committed and at the end you know it will be solved. So you've got to make the story interesting besides it just being a plot. And that's why character matters, why you've got to make the characters interesting.” KnowsWayEndsMatterCharacterStoriesInterestingCrimeCommittedBoringPlotJust BeingEntertainers Author:Jo Nesbo
“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.” IfsEndsProcessInterestingResultsEatingMusic IsCookingCooksEnd ResultsEating Food Author:Ryan Adams
“Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.” PeopleWritingWellsEndsEnoughFactsNationsStuffInterestingAutobiography Author:Jane Smiley
“Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all of its trials and troubles, and perhaps more interesting because of them.” WayHeartEndsFactsWisdomTodayMovingLife IsFoundHoursInspiringInterestingTroubleJourneyMinutesLateTrialsToo LateEnlighteningLife Is GoodEnd Of The Road Author:Robert Updegraff
“What could be more interesting, or in the end, more ecstatic, than in those rare moments when you see another person look at something you've made, and realize that they got it exactly, that your heart jumped to their heart with nothing in between.” LooksHeartPersonsMadeEndsMomentsRealizingInterestingCommunicationEcstaticRare Moments Author:Robert Motherwell
“Soccer presented no challenge to me. Playing felt like breathing: I always had a magical connection to the ball. But it didn't feel like an adventure. Music was more of a challenge and, in the end, felt more interesting.” FeelsEndsFeltChallengesInterestingAdventureConnectionsBallsSoccerBreathing Author:Pete Wentz
“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
“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.” PeopleKnowsTryingBookIdeasEndsSometimesFeelingsInterestingWonderDesignComicTensionEditorsDistressComic BookPitchingWonder WomanDamsel In Distress Author:Cliff Chiang
“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.” YearsDoeTwoEndsNextLiteratureGrowsInterestingRichOne ThingTwo YearsPeasantsReally InterestingGet RichHeroinPoppiesAfghanDubai Author:Bruce Sterling
“When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.” EndsInterestingNormalTouristsVisitors Author:Denzel Washington
“As an actor, I never really had a strategy. I just take projects, as they come. It all comes down to the writing, at the end of the day, for me. I don't care if it's a two-line cameo or the lead of the thing, as long as the project has some weight behind the writing and it's interesting and I think people will enjoy it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWritingLongTwoEndsCareActorsEnjoyLinesInterestingBehindsProjectsWeightStrategyDon't CareI Don't CareThe End Of The DayCameos Author:Chris Vance
“You start out performing because it's fun, then you learn more things and you want to do more than go "Na-na-na-na" on a stage. The production end is interesting, writing is interesting, and you learn to coordinate all these things.” WantWritingEndsFunInterestingStageProductionsPerformingCoordinates Author:Grace Slick
“It's when most of the guests have gone that the party really gets interesting - peering under the table and into the bath to see who's stayed and what shape they're in. It is then that those who are still conscious divulge things you had not known before: sometimes about themselves, sometimes about other people and sometimes about you. It does not necessarily make pleasant hearing but it is always fascinating. In the relaxed atmosphere, in the wake of the hubbub, they unwind and grow confidential - nay, indiscreet. If they are not already, they end up as your closest friends.” PeopleIfsDoeStillsEndsSometimesGrowsInterestingPartyKnownGoneShapesConsciousTablesHearingAtmospherePleasantFascinatingGuestsClosestRelaxedBathsUnwindClosest FriendsConfidentialDivulge Author:Alice Thomas Ellis
“Isn't it interesting that in Acts 11, at the end of verse 26, it says, "The disciples were called Christians first at Antioch." What I find interesting is the simple thought that the Christians didn't name themselves. But rather, they were called (or named) "Christians" by those watching their lives. I wonder if it would be the same today. Could someone look at your life or look at my life and name me a Christian? A humbling thought for sure.” IfsFirstsLooksEndsWould BeTodayChristianNamesSimpleInterestingWonderVersesDiscipleHumblingBible VerseBible StoriesSimple ThoughtsAntioch Author:Chris Tomlin
“The thing that was most interesting to me was getting my first prints back from the printer and realizing photography doesn't end with the click of a button, it starts there. Printing is so exciting.” FirstsEndsRealizingInterestingPhotographyExcitingPrintButtonsMost InterestingPrintingClicksPrinter Author:Bryan Adams
“I immensely enjoy any experience directing. I've never hated it, and I've had bad experiences. At the end of the day, I just feel like I'm supposed to be on a set. I'm supposed to be working with creative people. I'm supposed to be working with actors and I'm supposed to be manning a project in this capacity. It's interesting.” PeopleFeelsEndsActorsEnjoyInterestingCreativeProjectsCapacitySupposed To BeHatedThe End Of The DayCreative PeopleBad Experiences Author:Christine Swanson
“A lot of the characters I end up playing have a certain degree of glamour or sexiness, but I like it when you can have some other element that makes it much more interesting.” EndsCharacterCertainInterestingDegreesElementsGlamourSexiness Author:Erin Cummings
“That's what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I'm trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it's over and there's one more person in the world who thinks I'm a complete and total waste of space.” ThinkingWorldFeelsTryingPersonsI CanEndsHardLightEyeEarthAsksWaitingCan DoDarkSpaceInterestingBrainToo MuchWasteEmptySkinsAsk MeStaringShyTunnelsBest PlaceSomething InterestingEyes LookingBeing ShyWaste Of Space Author:Carol Rifka Brunt
“You can have an interesting story about a person living an interesting life. And if it's done well, that is just as engaging as the end of the world. A million people dying - we can't process. One person, we can process.” PeopleIfsWorldWellsPersonsEndsDoneStoriesProcessInterestingMillionsDyingEngagingEnd Of The WorldInteresting LifePeople DyingInteresting Stories Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“At the other end of the spectrum is, for example, graph theory, where the basic object, a graph, can be immediately comprehended. One will not get anywhere in graph theory by sitting in an armchair and trying to understand graphs better. Neither is it particularly necessary to read much of the literature before tackling a problem: it is of course helpful to be aware of some of the most important techniques, but the interesting problems tend to be open precisely because the established techniques cannot easily be applied.” TryingImportantEndsProblemCoursesLiteratureInterestingExampleObjectsTheorySittingMathematicsTechniqueHelpfulSpectrumTacklingArmchairsGraphs Author:Timothy Gowers
“Trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times. If you get lost and you just end up eating just anywhere, you know, you see a bunch of Venetians sitting around smoking cigarettes, eating something unrecognizable in a dark alley somewhere, chances are it's interesting.” IfsKnowsTryingEndsLostDarkChancePerfectInterestingTerribleEatingSittingDisasterBunchSmokingVacationCigaretteChances AreAlleysSitting AroundSmoking CigarettesTerrible TimesDark Alleys Author:Anthony Bourdain
“Jerusalem - a divided city, where demonstrations for and against various issues occur regularly. One day, during an Orthodox demonstration against autopsies, I happened to click a few frames while a young man pushed his hamsa (spread hand) into my camera, which is seen by some as 'the evil eye.' As it happened, it was the tail end of my roll of film and the image is actually a double exposure. This taught me that in spite of your careful framing, chance occurrences create the most interesting images.” MenEndsHandsEyeFilmYoungEvilChanceInterestingCitiesIssuesHappenedTaughtOne DayCamerasCarefulVariousSpreadYoung ManSpiteOrthodoxDividedTailsExposureDemonstrationMost InterestingClicksJerusalemFramingAutopsyEvil Eye Author:Micha Bar-Am
“I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma. This guy was evil, and this girl was very sweet. And in the end, we'd have to see eight endings because we'd also have to know what happened to the uncle. It's like, "Are you kidding me?!"” KnowsEndsAmericaFilmGuyGirlEvilInterestingHappenedSubjectsSweetSceneScriptsEightTendenciesThemeUnclesThis GuyVery InterestingDilemmaThis GirlVery Sweet Author:Mads Mikkelsen
“I've been very fortunate to go from interesting chapter to interesting chapter. I've always enjoyed the process and always enjoyed working more really than the end result of what it achieves. I'm more interested in doing the work.” EndsProcessInterestingResultsAchieveEnjoyedFortunateChaptersEnd Results Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“I loved Rent when I first heard it, but it grew on me and so did Tick, Tick... Boom. Some songs are more interesting than others and sometimes the ones that never stood out at first end up being the best to perform.” FirstsEndsSometimesSongInterestingHeardGrewBeing The BestTick Author:Neil Patrick Harris
“The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening over the course of a year and a half, or two years.” IfsWayWritingYearsTwoEndsCoursesProcessInterestingHalfHappeningsTwo YearsWriting Process Author:Tom Perrotta
“As an actor, you don't want to know the beginning and end to your character's arc. It makes it more fun. You're not playing the end. You're playing it realistically. You don't know where this character is going to go and what's going to happen to him, which just makes it more interesting for the viewers to watch. They're going on the journey with you, as the actor and the character.” KnowsWantEndsCharacterHappensActorsFunInterestingWatchesJourneyViewersArcsBeginnings And Ends Author:Jordan Gavaris
“A lot of people have said my movies are all the same. But I don't actually make an effort to have a style. I'm usually just thinking of what can we do to make it funnier or more interesting or just kind of refine it and it ends up like that.” PeopleThinkingKindSaidEndsInterestingEffortStyle Author:Wes Anderson
“What's interesting is, if you take the scientists and the theologians, the really good ones, they end up both filled with this wide-eyed sense of wonder and awe about look at this world we live in.” IfsWorldLooksEndsInterestingWonderThis WorldScientistFilledWideAweTheologianSense Of Wonder Author:Rob Bell
“Music and time have such an interesting relationship. Music makes time fall away like almost nothing else. You hear a song from another moment of your life and it really is like you're still there. That's why the music of our youth ends up being particularly powerful. The coming of age music that you grab a hold of as the symbol or the expression of your independence and hopes for the future and anger and rebellion or whatever it is you're feeling is so powerful for the rest of your life when you hear it.” StillsEndsMomentsFeelingsAgeSongFallInterestingPowerfulYouthExpressionLike YouIndependenceSymbolsRebellionComing Of AgeRest Of Your LifeMaking TimeHope For The Future Author:Jennifer Egan
“Advertising agencies don't care about a better world in the end. They are servants of their client: what the client wants is what they get. Their only problem is to not lose the budget. I think its a shame because advertising is so boring and it can be so interesting. They should ask more artists to make interesting campaigns.” ThinkingWorldWantShouldEndsProblemCareArtistAsksLosesInterestingShameDon't CareBoringCampaignsAdvertisingBudgetsServantAgencyClientsAdvertising AgenciesSo Boring Author:Oliviero Toscani
“Choose your enemies carefully 'cause they will define you Make them interesting 'cause in some ways they will mind you They're not there in the beginning but when your story ends Gonna last with you longer than your friend” WayMindEndsStoriesLastsCausesInterestingEnemyDefine You Author:Cormac McCarthy
“When I start asking my friends, "What do you think this means?" And it leads to way more interesting conversations than what it actually ends up meaning in the dictionary. Like "apocryphal," for instance.” ThinkingWayMeanEndsInterestingConversationMy FriendsAskingInstanceDictionaryInteresting Conversation Author:Andrew Bird
“Create a really interesting, complex person that you want to know more about, and take her on a journey that is rich and fulfilling and that has an end that is perfectly fulfilling, and that has an end that is perfect for that character, and the audience will love it.” KnowsWantPersonsEndsCharacterPerfectInterestingAudienceRichJourneyComplexesFulfillingReally Interesting Author:Frank Spotnitz