Interesting Quotes - Page 25

• Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot.

  Jensen Ackles

  Drama, Character, Stories

  "Up Close with Supernatural‘s Jensen Ackles: Part 1". Interview with Ileane Rudolp, www.tvguide.com. October 25, 2007.

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• Perfect isn't normal, nor is it interesting. I have no features without makeup. I am pale. I have blond lashes. You could just paint my face - it's like a blank canvas. It can be great for what I do.

  Amy Adams

  Makeup, Perfect, Faces

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• Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.

  Mitch Albom

  Writing, Mind, Trying

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• I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'

  Mitch Albom

  Sports, Writing, Character

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• I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

  Alan Alda

  Nice, Character, Play

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. August 24, 2007.

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• I did several interesting jobs, working in restaurants, I worked at a lab rat farm, feeding and watering all these rats. Then I got a full-time job as a technical writer for a large scientific research laboratory.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Jobs, Research, Literature

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• It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

  Neil Armstrong

  New Horizons, Earth, Brilliant

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• I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

  David Attenborough

  World, Fortune, Rounds

  "Sir David Attenborough warns against large families and predicts things will only get worse" by James Meikle, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2013.

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• You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting.

  Margaret Atwood

  Views, Pyramids, People

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• You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Film, Audience

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• A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

  Walter Bagehot

  Pride, Ideas, Thrones

  Walter Bagehot (1930). “The English Constitution: And Other Political Essays”, p.53, Lulu.com

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• The interesting thing about a movie is the movie.

  Christian Bale

  Movie, Actors, Interesting Things

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices.

  Lester Bangs

  Children, Mean, Kids

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!

  Tyra Banks

  Fashion, Years, Here I Am

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• I actually regard Facebook as a huge bore, but I cannot refrain from participating in it. I guess I crave the feeling of hope it gives me to think that today will be different from yesterday, that I will find an interesting comment or poke or video, and on the extremely rare occasion when that happens, I am just thrilled.

  Roseanne Barr

  Thinking, Yesterday, Giving

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• A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

  James M. Barrie

  Fall, Past, Safe

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• Going back to Georgiana Drew and John Drew, and my great-grandfather Maurice Barrymore, and it was such a sort of circus of odd, interesting people that loved acting.

  Drew Barrymore

  People, Grandfather, Acting

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• It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

  Cecilia Bartoli

  Joy, Collaboration, Different

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• In America, I would say New York and New Orleans are the two most interesting food towns. In New Orleans, they don't have a bad deli. There's no mediocrity accepted.

  Mario Batali

  New York, Food, New Orleans

  "The Traditions of the Table". Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov. January/February 2004.

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• Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

  Gary Becker

  Yield, Analysis, Systematic

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• I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Girl, Thinking, Complicated

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• I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Journey, Difficult

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• I like comedies, I like thrillers, I like love stories. Everything is beautiful; it depends if the film is good, who cares? Everything is interesting.

  Monica Bellucci

  Beautiful, Like Love, Who Cares

  "Monica Bellucci Interview - SHOOT 'EM UP". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 5, 2007.

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• The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

  John Berger

  Thinking, Interest

  "A radical returns" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. April 03, 2005.

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• I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting.

  Milton Berle

  Husband, Feels, Know How

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