Most Interesting Quotes - Page 9

• Get people talking. Learn to ask questions that will elicit answers about what is most interesting or vivid in their lives. Nothing so animates writing as someone telling what he thinks or what he does - in his own words. His own words will always be better than your words, even if you are the most elegant stylist in the land.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Thinking, Talking

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• The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out tome on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Rome, Water

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.740, Delphi Classics

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• What I find most interesting in fashion is that it has to reflect our time. You have to witness your own moment.

  Nicolas Ghesquiere

  Fashion, Interesting, Moments

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• The most interesting characters are those you're drawn to, then repelled by, and then come to understand. All that tension - I live that. But I don't plan the tension. It's just something that should happen.

  Rachel Weisz

  Character, Interesting, Should

  Source: deadline.com

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• For me the most interesting thing about Leigh Bowery was the way he used his body as a style statement. He was a big guy, but, because he was tall and had long legs, he looked in proportion - even sexy - despite being overweight by conventional standards.

  Boy George

  Sexy, Long, Interesting

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• Mia Michaels is to my mind one of the most interesting choreographers alive right now and my colleague and my friend from So You Think (You Can Dance).

  Adam Shankman

  Thinking, Interesting, Mind

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes you get really bitter about how the prettiest images don't typically end up attached to the most interesting music. But I just take that as a challenge to try to do something cool.

  David Longstreth

  Interesting, Challenges, Trying

  "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.

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• I think most interesting people are socially awkward even if they're able to hide it most of the time. If Henry Darger hadn't been a shut-in would we love him so much? Any act that we do in private is amazing and profound because it is private. You don't have to worry about being socially awkward in the privacy of your own home... well, unless I show up.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Home, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Michel Houellebecq is the most interesting, provocative and important European novelist of my generation. Period. No one else comes close. He has written two or maybe three great books, and his latest, The Map and the Territory, is one of them.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Book, Two, Interesting

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• I think the most interesting New Yorkers are the people who were not born here.

  Elaine Stritch

  Thinking, People, Interesting

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• One of the most interesting reactions to come out of 1968 was in the first publication of the Trilateral Commission, which believed there was a 'crisis of democracy' from too much participation of the masses.

  Noam Chomsky

  Interesting, Democracy, Too Much

  "Noam Chomsky on 1968". www.newstatesman.com. May 8, 2008.

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• I was once asked if I'd like to meet the president of a certain country. I said, "No, but I'd love to meet some sheepherders." The sheepherders, farmers and taxi drivers are often the most interesting people.

  James A. Michener

  Country, People, Interesting

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• There's a page in #2 where I did one of the most interesting pages I've ever drawn. I had to think, "This is a big, blockbuster comic book." You're prepared to be more fan service-y or bombastic. Yet I did one of the most challenging pages I've ever drawn, and it was incredibly satisfying to do that on a project like this [All-Star Batman].

  Declan Shalvey

  Stars, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Yeah, people seem to really relate to it and feel moved by it. It's been the most positively received of all my movies so far. I don't know why. I like it just as much as I like my others, but people think this one is the best or the most interesting. I'll take it, though. I wouldn't want them to be saying my films are getting worse.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You're looking, moment by moment and scene by scene, how you can tell the most interesting story. So, we had this great short and we knew that we had a story about a boy and his dog. Because we had that pure emotional core, we could go on crazy tangents and always come back to Victor and Sparky. When I wrote in stuff like Weird Girl and the cat poop, Dutch Day and the windmill, it felt like it was part of Tim's universe.

  John August

  Girl, Dog, Crazy

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a person who really likes to understand motives - the inner motives and the inner personalities of persons. Why do people do some things? How do they deal with themselves while doing them? Definitely one of the most interesting parts of doing interviews and creating the movie was going into those persona issues in each one of them.

  Dror Moreh

  Creating, Issues, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The most interesting part of IIFA is that I get to meet filmmakers from India. I just attended a symposium on Satyajit Ray with Rituparno Ghosh and others. It was just so satisfying

  Deepa Mehta

  Interesting, Rays, India

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• Usually the most interesting stories are written not on paper but hearts.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Heart, Interesting, Stories

  Richard Paul Evans (2015). “Walking on Water: A Novel”, p.191, Simon and Schuster

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• Powerful women are the most interesting to play.

  Naomie Harris

  Powerful, Play, Interesting

  Interview with Jeffrey Wright, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 23, 2013.

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• I don't think I want to play title roles. I don't want to be the face on the poster. I don't want that pressure of having the success riding on my shoulders. I just want to play the most interesting parts. I actually think it's incredibly rare to get an interesting female character that is the lead in a film. Usually the character parts are so much more interesting to play.

  Carey Mulligan

  Character, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The U.S. healthcare system is probably the most interesting large group of companies that are heading for major problems that we've seen in a long, long time.

  James Chanos

  Long, Interesting, Groups

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• Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching.

  Bridget Fonda

  People, Interesting, Layers

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

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• Usually when I'm making a movie, what I have in mind first, for the visuals, is how we can stage the scenes to bring them more to life in the most interesting way, and then how we can make a world for the story that the audience hasn't quite been in before.

  Wes Anderson

  Interesting, Mind, Stories

  "Wes Anderson Talks MOONRISE KINGDOM, His Next Film, Doing Another Stop-Motion Movie and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 5, 2012.

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• Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Interesting, Towns, Appearance

  Marguerite GARDINER (Countess of Blessington.) (1841). “The Idler in France”, p.19

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• Sometimes, the smaller roles in movies can be the most interesting. If you only take the stance that you'll only play central characters in movies, you'll find yourself not being able to indulge in that morally grey terrain that makes support characters so rich and interesting.

  Joel Edgerton

  Character, Play, Indulge In

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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