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• If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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• Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.

  Damian Lewis

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• I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Tree, Pumps, Picnics

  Roy Lichtenstein, John Caplans (1968). “Roy Lichtenstein: Exhibition 6 Jan.-4 Feb. 1968, Tate Gallery, London ...”

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• What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

  Laura Linney

  Self, People, Choices

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• No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.'

  Sophia Loren

  Years, Two, Three

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• Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place. It's like voodoo; we don't want things that are soaked in blood, sweat, and tears. I adore life, and I'm very easygoing - and it shows in my work.

  Christian Louboutin

  Fashion, Blood, Sweat

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• Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

  David Lynch

  Real, Comedy, Film

  "The Surreal Careers of David Lynch". Interview with Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 20, 2012.

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• A lot of music doesn't do one thing or another. It just doesn't do anything. Then there are those pieces of music that thrill your soul. It's such a wide range, and it's really interesting that we all love different things.

  David Lynch

  Soul, Different, Thrill

  "David Lynch on why he hates "It's A Small World"". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. July 17, 2013.

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• I may find something that looks interesting and then go on to alter the recipe by adding spices, things of my own. I also look for time-saving recipes, dishes that can be prepared ahead and stored.

  Paul Lynde

  Looks, Spices, Goes On

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• I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Blessed, People, Wish

  "Every day is a holiday for Yo-Yo Ma". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. November 12, 2008.

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• One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Years, Two, People

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• The trend today is vampires, zombies, angels, all the stuff that puts me right to sleep. It's too bad because it's so much less interesting than the diversity of stories you can tell with science.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Sleep, Angel, Diversity

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• When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.

  David Mamet

  Mean, Ideas, Play

  David Mamet (2010). “Theatre”, p.142, Macmillan

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• I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks.

  Demetri Martin

  School, Law, Three

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. November 29, 2006.

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• It's so interesting how success hits people and how they react to it.

  John Mayer

  People

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• What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.

  John Mayer

  Character, Home, Guy

  "John Mayer talks life on the road, latest album". Interview with Jessi Savino, 2007.

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• I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad day is a lot more fun than Robin Williams doing forty minutes of material.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Fun, Bad Day, Thinking

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• It's the cable shows that are really the most interesting - 'Mad Men,' 'Breaking Bad,' those shows are really the premiere shows on television right now.

  Dylan McDermott

  Men, Mad, Television

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• I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.

  Ewan McGregor

  Princess, Play, Would Be

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

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• I'm afraid that - not necessarily deliberately, but consistently - I've made a kind of laboratory out of my life, where I mix the stuff in the test tubes to create explosions - possibly resulting in interesting by-products. I mean, not deliberately - I'd be crazy to deliberately do that - or maybe not.

  Jay McInerney

  Crazy, Mean, Tests

  "The beautiful and the damned". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2000.

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• I'm not really a partier, in general. I've definitely learned that that's probably the least interesting thing you can do with your time.

  Leighton Meester

  Interesting Things, Can Do

  "Outtakes from Leighton Meester's February Cover Shoot". Slide 1, www.seventeen.com. January 03, 2011.

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• So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness.

  Angela Merkel

  Europe, Wish, United States

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

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• But my main thing that I would love to see as a fan of 'Glee,' like I said, is to really get into the character and who they are and what they do outside of school. I think that that's interesting. And then of course the themed stuff and the album episodes are all really cool too.

  Lea Michele

  School, Character, Thinking

  "'Glee' Lea Michele, Chris Colfer interview: 'Barbra Streisand should not be a guest star'". Interview With Catriona Wightman, www.digitalspy.com. September 19, 2011.

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• I've always been intrigued by color and by interesting hair. I was one of those weird little girls doing my own hair at the age of 9. I was, like, getting weird gels and new brushes and cornrow holders. I would tweak and perm at the age of 13.

  Nicki Minaj

  Girl, Hair, Color

  "Cyndi, Barbie, Nicki". Interview With Amy Larocca, nymag.com. February 12, 2012.

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• People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.

  Helen Mirren

  Character, People, Personality

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