Interesting Quotes - Page 28

• One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!

  Bernadette Devlin

  Jesus, Hate, Names

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• It was interesting to do a completely fictional piece. You know, Saving Private Ryan was not a fictional piece! So the challenge was: How do you incorporate real emotions? How do you incorporate aspects that people are going to be able to identify with?

  Vin Diesel

  Real, People, Challenges

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• It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that.' But with your grandparents you have a feeling that you can say anything or you can do anything, and they will support you. That's why you have this kind of connection.

  Novak Djokovic

  Support You, Grandparent, Judging

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• If I thought a man had never committed a sin in his life, I don't think I'd want to talk with him. A man with flaws is more interesting.

  Kirk Douglas

  Men, Thinking, Want

  "Kirk Douglas: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

  Lena Dunham

  Strong, Fun, Often Can

  Interview with Claire Danes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 11, 2012.

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• It’s interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.

  Lena Dunham

  People

  "Lena Dunham, ‘Girls’ Star, On ‘Labia Saturation,’ Oversharing And Her Tattoos". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.

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• The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

  Will Durant

  Knowing, Suffering, Answers

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• Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

  Robert Duvall

  Country, Thinking, America

  "Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek Interview GET LOW". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 30, 2010.

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• The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

  Umberto Eco

  Names, People, Rose

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• A woman called me interesting once, and it kind of blew my mind. She said, 'You're one of the most interesting people I've ever met,' and I was like, 'Wow.'

  Zac Efron

  People, Mind, Wow

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• The music industry is an interesting lens through which to look at change, because it has had such a difficult time adjusting to the digital age.

  Jennifer Egan

  Age, Adjusting, Digital

  "Conversation: Author Jennifer Egan". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. July 1, 2010.

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• 'Look at Me' started with Rockford, Illinois and New York and the question of how much image culture was changing our inner lives. That's an abstract idea; you don't think that's going to be a rocking work of fiction, but it seemed to fuse in a way that was interesting.

  Jennifer Egan

  New York, Thinking, Ideas

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• The faster you go, the shorter you are.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• Most of those melodies are me trying to find out what notes fit, and then hitting ones that don't fit in a very interesting way.

  Brian Eno

  Trying, Hitting, Way

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• I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, 'I'm a Celebrity - Get Me Out of Here!' is so sociologically fascinating that I think I'd better watch.

  Brian Eno

  Thinking, Watches, Television

  "Everyone is entertained to death". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2005.

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• One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.

  Brian Eno

  Moving, Musical, Littles

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• Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Should Have, Way, Records

  "Marianne Faithfull: 'I don't think I had any choice but to be decadent'". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2013.

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• I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

  Colin Farrell

  Lying, Beef, Might

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• It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side?

  Michael Fassbender

  Dark, Sides, Hedonistic

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• It's very interesting to know what people are doing while you're working on late-night television.

  Craig Ferguson

  Night, People, Television

  "Craig Ferguson Plays 'Not My Job'". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Carl Kasell, www.npr.org. July 10, 2010.

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• There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors who view bodybuilders as cavalier amateurs of science. And then you have the bodybuilders who view the doctors as too conservative to do anything interesting. So I've tried to become the middleman for putting some of those pieces together.

  Tim Ferriss

  Views, Doctors, Athletic

  "Tim Ferriss Wants to Hack Your Body". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. November 29, 2010.

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• The world is full of more interesting things than my voice.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Voice, World, Interesting Things

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• I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

  Renee Fleming

  Records, Want

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• I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends’ houses. I like places where there’s stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Coffee, Home, Writing

  Interview with Joshua Wolf Shenk, www.motherjones.com. May 2005.

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• Evolution has programmed our brains to find two things particularly interesting, and therefore memorable: jokes and sex - and especially, it seems, jokes about sex.

  Joshua Foer

  Sex, Memorable, Two

  Joshua Foer (2011). “Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything”, p.76, Penguin

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