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“I think a book that is over 400 pages should be split in two. I don't know that there's anything that interesting that can go on for 700 pages. I think that is a little bit indulgent.”

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Author:Chris Abani

“I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.”

Thinking Might Interesting Cases Virtue Vices

Author:Katy Lederer

“In terms of style, too, I think I've been working with a somewhat limited -- although intentionally limited -- set of tools. So I'm attempting to be a bit looser as I start stories off. To digress. To make interesting mistakes.”

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Author:Kelly Link

“Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If you want to get an interesting perspective do not think of Hugh as a traditional 20th century physicist but more of a Renaissance man with interests and skills in many different areas. He was smart and lots of things interested him and he brought the same general conceptual methodology to solve them. The subject matter was not so important as the solution ideas.”

“If you begin to think business whether you own it or work for it like you would a well managed sports team you will learn a lot of very interesting lessons”

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Author:Strive Masiyiwa

“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.”

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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.”

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Author:Reese Witherspoon

“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

“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.”

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Author:Nicholas Lea

“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.”

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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

“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.”

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Author:Meryl Streep

“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

“I think all actors are on the constant search for a real challenge just to keep things interesting.”

Thinking Real Actors Challenges Interesting Constant

Author:Benjamin Bratt

“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.”

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Author:Chris Vance

“It's great to have people to bounce off and I love working with people my age. I think young actors have such energy about them and such a passion and a drive to do their best and prove themselves constantly, and to work with that is really fun and interesting.”

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Author:Kaya Scodelario

“For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just because I can't stand the way I look. But, I think it's important to change every time and come up with something that's as interesting as it can be, for your characters.”

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Author:Johnny Depp

“I think real humans are so complicated, and often [characters] are written more one-dimensional without maybe even the writer knowing it. I've felt numerous moments in my life where my most confident moment and my most insecure moment were exactly the same time. There's nothing funny or interesting about perfection.”

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Author:Kristen Bell

“I don't really wanna think about themes. I wanna just think about the experience of the movie. I feel like, as soon as I reduce it to a theme, once I write that sentence, it won't be that great. I feel like there's more potential for it to mean something interesting if I'm not forcing it to mean something I've already decided.”

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Author:Wes Anderson

“I love the stories that have come before, that we know of. I think for me it's always more interesting to start from square one and you take the fundamental pillars of the character and, around that, try to create something new and different.”

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Author:Chris Pine

“I think virgins are far more interesting to write about. If we've been around the block a few times, we know what to expect. Not so with virgins.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Writing Interesting Block Virgins

Author:E. L. James

“Most of my friends are women. I think women are more interesting to talk to.”

Thinking Interesting My Friends

Author:John Baldessari

“I was in Manhattan during 9/11, and that was really the only thing that I related to as far as a disaster on a grand scale. It was really interesting to see on that day and in the weeks afterwards how people came together, and what people were able to do for each other, and what I found myself feeling and thinking and doing for the people around me, whether it was strangers on the street or my own family. It was really an experience that you can't fake.”

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Author:Alexandra Daddario

“In real life people fart, in the movies, people don't. Why not? Farts are a repressed minority. The mouth gets to say all kinds of things, but the other place is supposed to keep quiet. But maybe our lower colons have something interesting to say. Maybe we should listen to them. Farts are human, more human than a lot of people I know. I think we should bring them out of the water closet and into the parlor.”

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Author:Mel Brooks

“If you repeat yourself, then I think you're in danger of losing that fan base, because if you're not interesting yourselves, you're not interesting your audience.”

Ifs Thinking Interesting Audience Fans Danger Losing Repeats

Author:Martin Gore

“I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an interesting idea that you can control how you go. It's this thing that's looming, and you can control it.”

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Author:Ryan Gosling

“Im obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think thats extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.”

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Author:Sami Gayle

“I think everybody likes to play the villain. Theyre always much more interesting characters.”

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Author:Maria Doyle Kennedy

“I think a lot of the most interesting work in art and in films are often kind of polarized opinions and affect people in very different ways, which may be less successful commercially, but they elicit a dialogue that's quite interesting.”

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Author:Lily Cole

“I think CGI is interesting but it's too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot-by-shot.”

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Author:Ben Wheatley

“I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions.”

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Book:The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851

Source: The George Eliot Letters: 1836-1851

“Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.”

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Author:Hugh Grant

“I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.”

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Author:Anne Tyler

“I happen to believe that most people - and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least as they express themselves - I think that virtually every human being is dramatically interesting. Not only is he dramatically interesting, he is a creature of stature whoever he is.”

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Author:Lorraine Hansberry

“The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done without the most horrible confusions: no two people think exactly the same way about anything.”

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Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“It's not 'natural' to speak well, eloquently, in an interesting, articulate way. People living in groups, families, communes say little - have few verbal means. Eloquence - thinking in words - is a byproduct of solitude, deracination, a heightened painful individuality. In groups, it's more natural to sing, to dance, to pray: given, rather than invented (individual) speech.”

Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 1964-1980

“I just tend to think about everyday things for my onstage act. Actually you know what I like to talk about just the absolute most - the more mundane the subject matter, the more interesting it is to me.”

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Author:Brian Regan

“I have enjoyed teaching most of the times that I have done it. I also like being by myself and making things and performing, so much that if I hadn't needed an income I probably wouldn't have done much teaching. Having said that, I think working with others, having to come up with art projects, and learning how to present your ideas in a clear way, to adults and/or kids is always interesting and rewarding.”

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Author:Ed Askew

“I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.”

“I think you'll find, when you're married, that it isn't nearly so important for you to be interesting as it is to make your husband feel that he's interesting.”

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Author:Patti Page

“The ways in which people are damaged are the ways in which they're strong. It's what makes people interesting - what they've overcome and how, and what they haven't and how that's become a good thing. Almost everyone's life is both a gorgeous story and a tragedy. I think being alive is really, really hard, and I'm constantly stunned and amazed by people who make it interesting and beautiful.”

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Author:Sarah Polley

“Potatoes are very interesting folks. I think they must see a lot of what is going on in the earth - they have so many eyes.”

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Book:Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart

Source: Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart

“The process of building trust is an interesting one, but it begins with yourself, with what I call self trust, and with your own credibility, your own trustworthiness. If you think about it, it's hard to establish trust with others if you can't trust yourself.”

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Author:Stephen Covey

“I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.”

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Author:Eve Ensler

“I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were doing, and how important it was, and how nonexistent it is now! How dreamlike it is! Same thing with tomorrow. So where are we living?”

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Author:Laurie Anderson

“Grab a guitar, put some kind of strings on it, a banjo string, then a violin string, then a guitar string, tune it any way you want, and make some noise, and see what you get. And work on it until you get something that you think is interesting. That's all there is to art for me.”

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Author:Buffy Sainte-Marie

“I think 3D at 24 frames is interesting, but it's the 48 that actually allows 3D to achieve the potential that it can achieve, because it's less eye strain and you have a sharper picture which creates more of a 3-dimensional world.”

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Author:Peter Jackson

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