Interesting Quotes - Page 34

• At every stage of my career I have had interesting and cordial colleagues, some of whom are close friends.

  Daniel Nathans

  Careers, Close Friends, Stage

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• Cows are gentle, interesting animals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Cows, Gentle

  "The ‘Real Milk’ Campaign Hopes To Make Real Suckers Out Of Us" by Ingrid Newkirk, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 1, 2012.

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• Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.

  Rachel Nichols

  Country, People, Lovely

  "Comic-Con 2011 Exclusive: Rachel Nichols Talks CONAN THE BARBARIAN, Comic-Con, Girl Fights, and the other Rachel Nichols". Interview with Bill Graham, collider.com. July 23, 2011.

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• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

  Jack Nicholson

  Movie, Thinking, Actors

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• The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Book, Inspiration, Satisfaction

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I tend to relate to a character in terms of the arc: what's interesting is where he starts versus where he ends up.

  Edward Norton

  Character, Ends, Arcs

  "Edward Norton in the Kingdom of Cannes". Interview with Annette Insdorf, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2012.

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• Television is the most interesting hobby I've ever had.

  Kevin O'Leary

  Hobbies, Television, Most Interesting

  Kevin O'Leary (2011). “Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money & Life”, p.210, Doubleday Canada

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• I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Art, Fun, Looks

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• Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sometimes, Reviews, Term

  Joyce Carol Oates, Lee Milazzo (1989). “Conversations with Joyce Carol Oates”, p.64, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.

  Conor Oberst

  Thinking, Ideas, Together

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• I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale. And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what’s to come, so I think that’s really interesting.

  Conor Oberst

  Thinking, Fiction, Arthur

  "Ben Gibbard’s Seventh-Album Stretch". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 13, 2011.

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• Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.

  Gary Oldman

  Travel, Want, Way

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• Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Play, Broadway

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• In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.

  Susan Orlean

  Dog, Mutts, Peculiar

  "The Social Animal" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I love the English way, which is not as capitalistic as it is in America. People don't talk about work and money. They talk about interesting things at dinner parties.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Party, America, People

  "Where the heart is". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2006.

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• One of the interesting things about YA books - I don't know about Percy Jackson, but I do know about 'Twilight' and 'Maximum Ride': There are a lot of adult readers. In fact, we released 'Maximum Ride' both as a paperback for kids and as a mass release for adults.

  James Patterson

  Book, Twilight, Kids

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• Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Wise, Insightful, Too Much

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• It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.

  Neil Peart

  Sports, Team, Athlete

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• There aren't many roles that are interesting if you're a 40-year-old woman, unless you're Julia Roberts or Cate Blanchett.

  Amanda Peet

  Years, Roles, Old Woman

  "Amanda Peet returns to television". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.cnn.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Fearless people are interesting to watch.

  Ron Perlman

  People, Fearless, Watches

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. January 12, 2011.

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• Aggies have a really interesting way of admitting defeat. We've never been outscored. We just ran out of time.

  Rick Perry

  Admitting, Way, Defeat

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• I never had a ton of male friends and it's always been something that's really interesting to me, what brings guys together? The bonding. 'Old School' is a good example of that. And even 'Starsky' and even 'Road Trip.'

  Todd Phillips

  School, Guy, Together

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

  Pablo Picasso

  Artist, Matter, Masters

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• When time permits, I try to see interesting people in the cities I visit. In Seattle, I met Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, who is shy in personality but flamboyant in his philanthropy.

  Steven Pinker

  Cities, People, Personality

  "My week" by Steven Pinker, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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• Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring.

  Roman Polanski

  Normal, Boring

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

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