Interesting Quotes - Page 33

• As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.

  David Mitchell

  Ethnicity, Long, Uniforms

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• I'd just rather have a really sharp, interesting, smart gay son than some big dumb hetero meathead.

  Moby

  Smart, Son, Gay

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• As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.

  Moby

  Long, World, Want

  "Destroyed: Moby". Interview With Amah-Rose McKnight-Abrams, www.dazeddigital.com. May 30, 2011.

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• For me, New York still ranks as the most beautiful and the most interesting city in the world. It is also the most varied in terms of the things it has to offer.

  Moby

  Beautiful, New York, Cities

  "I lost my heart in... New York". Interview with Tim Wapshott, www.theguardian.com. May 14, 2005.

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• I've worked with all sorts of random people - everybody from Metallica to Britney Spears to Ozzy Osbourne to Michael Jackson to the Beastie Boys. I've got a really strange CV. It's interesting - I work with a lot of these disparate, different people to learn what it's like to work with random people.

  Moby

  Boys, People, Different

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• More often than not, whenever gossip has been written about me, the gossip is more interesting than the reality. I know some public figures hate gossip, but personally I like it because it makes my life sound more glamorous and interesting than it really is.

  Moby

  Hate, Reality, Gossip

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• Here's an interesting thing about L.A. - it's overrun with black widow spiders. I could find you one on the street in 10 minutes.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Black, Spiders, Widows

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• I don't really think that very much is interesting about the superhero as an archetype.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, Superhero, Archetype

  "Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League, and Making Magic". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. February 23, 2009.

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• I've had years of bizarre hallucinogenic magical experiences in which I believed I had communicated with entities that may well have been disassociated parts of my own personality or conceivably some independent entity of a metaphysical nature. Both would seem equally interesting.

  Alan Moore

  Independent, Years, Personality

  "Unearthing the truth about Watchmen genius Alan Moore". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2010.

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• Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Writing, Light

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• Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Mystery, Vulnerable, Absolutes

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• I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

  Robert Morgan

  Discovery, Long, Texture

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• I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating and living in an interesting way. I am fascinated by them because they have so much to say now that they've lived for so long.

  Steven Morrissey

  Creating, Long, People

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• All of us, ultimately, we're not that interesting, when it comes down to it.

  Steven Morrissey

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• I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Other Cultures, Mind, Multicultural

  "LatinoBuzz: Viggo Mortensen On Playing Twins, His Love of Argentina, and Soccer". Interview with Vanessa Erazo, www.indiewire.com. March 21, 2013.

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• In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Lord, Given, Term

  "Viggo Mortensen Speaks: Part 1 of 3". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. March 10, 2012.

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• Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Years, People

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• I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Horse, Kids, Years

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• In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally different from each other as are performances and the conditions on how the performances are given and how they're edited and so forth.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Thinking, Ideas, Effort

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• Walking down the street in any town or city in the world and having people look at you and start talking to you, convinced that they know you as well or better than they do members of their own family, that's just an odd phenomenon. But I mean, I wouldn't say it was a bad thing. It's an interesting thing.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Mean, Cities In The World, Talking

  "Viggo Mortensen Speaks: Part 1 of 3". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. March 10, 2012.

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• Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.

  Jason Mraz

  Effort, Challenges, Way

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• The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.

  Mike Myers

  Thinking, Life Is, Happens

  "Toronto: Fleming Q&A’s Mike Myers On ‘Supermensch’ Directorial Debut". Interview with Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. September 6, 2013.

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• I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there's tremendous traditions; there's secrecy.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Team, People, World

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• Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Grandma, Water, People

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• Marriage of attraction is a gamble anyway, so you might as well marry into a family that is similar to your own, and make that much less of an adjustment. But the 'love marriage', as it is called, is equally common in India now. But it would be interesting to do a comparison of what would work better. Marriage is hard work, and it is a gamble.

  Mira Nair

  Love, Hard Work, Age

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