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“Well, it's been an interesting career. Since I last appeared on 'Top Of The Pops,' I've been doing about 150 live shows every year. The live shows have always been well received and they consistently worked, it's just the records that haven't been very good.”

Years Wells Shows Lasts Interesting Careers Records Havens Very Good Pops Consistently

Author:John Otway

“I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.”

Thinking Wells Enough Individual Ability Interesting Attention Poet Depends Shapes Agree Impulse Visuals Bad Things

Author:James Laughlin

“Well, it was very interesting to play a character and stretch it over such a long time - 12 episodes. I had never done a TV show before, so week to week it was unclear what we would be asked to do.”

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Author:Nick Stahl

“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.”

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Author:Jim Talent

“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

“I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture that’s not well organized upside down, it won’t work.”

Ifs Wells Stills I Can Turns Interesting Quality Down And Photographer Photograph Obvious Instance Abstract Organized Upside Down

Author:William Eggleston

“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.”

People Writing Wells Ends Enough Facts Nations Stuff Interesting Autobiography

Author:Jane Smiley

“I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available.”

People Want Wells Country Energy Interesting Available Fuel Fossils Affordable Fossil Fuel Developed Country Burning Fossil Fuels

Author:Lee R. Raymond

“There are so many people, especially among our comrades, who imagine that words are nothing - on the contrary, isn't it true that saying a thing well is as interesting and as difficult as painting it?”

People Wells Difficult Interesting Imagine Painting Contrary Imagine That Comrade

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.”

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Book:Childe Hassam: American impressionist

Source: Childe Hassam: American impressionist

“The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent. The difference between stupid and intelligent people-and this is true whether or not they are well-educated-is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory situations-in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious when things seem overly straightforward.”

“Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the less well it performs. When this happens in a psychological experiment, it is interesting. When it happens in traffic, it can be fatal.”

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Author:Tom Vanderbilt

“Cats sleep in a state of total abandon, and I find that state very interesting in people as well.”

People Wells States Sleep Interesting Cat Abandon Very Interesting

Author:Mary Beth McKenzie

“That people even in well paid jobs choose ever earlier retirement is a severe indictment of our organizations - not just business, but government service, the universities. These people don't find their jobs interesting.”

People Wells Government Jobs Interesting Organization Paid University Retirement Severe Indictment Government Service

Author:Peter Drucker