Not Interested Quotes - Page 21

• I'm not interested into victim photography. Photographing people suffering and putting it on a museum wall is too weird.

  Richard Misrach

  Photography, Wall, Museums

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• I'm not interested in
  who suffered the most.
  I'm interested in
  people getting over it.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  People, Oppression, Over It

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1994). “Red Suitcase: Poems”, p.21, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• Theta blew out another plume of cigarette smoke. “Not interested. Love’s messy, kiddo. Let those other girls get moony-eyed and goofy. Me? I got plans.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Cigarette Smoke, Goofy

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• I’m not interested in being polite. It’s false.

  Libba Bray

  Polite, Being Polite

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• I am making an Enlightenment Capsule for the audience to meditate inside - virtual reality in which people can experience ancient ideas from the East... But I'm not interested in using ancient things; rather I want to connect them with contemporary life through the technology we have now.

  Mariko Mori

  Technology, Reality, Ideas

  Interview with Kunié Sugiura, www.jca-online.com.

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• When you meet a man in the doorway of a Mexican restaurant who later kisses you while explaining that this kiss doesn’t “mean anything” because, much as he likes you, he is not interested in having a relationship with you or anyone right now, just laugh and kiss him back. Your daughter will have his sense of humor. Your son will have his eyes.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Daughter, Mean, Eye

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.248, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When someone asks, 'Why do you think he's not calling me?' there's always one answer - 'He's not interested.' There's not ever any other answer.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Thinking, Dating, Calling

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• What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with me politically or you're not interested in the thematics, the story will still keep you turning the pages.

  China Mieville

  Book, Trying, Stories

  Interview with Lou Anders, believermag.com. April 1, 2005.

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• I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

  Alice Walker

  Unique, Self, Role Models

  Alice Walker (1997). “The Same River Twice”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Death, Dirty, Self

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• I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.

  Aunjanue Ellis

  Morning, Character, Safety

  "Aunjanue Ellis: Risk Taker". Essence.com Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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• It's easy for me to work with other girls because I'm a tomboy and I don't want the guy, your boyfriend - I'm not interested in looking better than you, so don't worry. Fail or win, whatever it is, I need to go do stuff.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Girl, Winning, Worry

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• I am not interested in communicating something to you, I am interested in communion. Communication means my mind talking to your mind. Communion means I am not a mind, you are not a mind - just your heart melting into my heart, no words.

  Rajneesh

  Communication, Heart, Mean

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• I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts.

  Gina Bellman

  Quirky, Different, Scripts

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• The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak for an hour on British television, they would say, "What! Another talking head?

  John Cleese

  Jesus, Talking, Ideas

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• I was not interested in what I could bring to myself by being an actress, but in what I could bring out of myself.

  Sophia Loren

  Actresses

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• The great war that broke so suddenly upon the world two years ago, and which has swept up within its flame so great a part of thecivilized world, has affected us very profoundly.... With its causes and its objects we are not concerned. The obscure fountains from which its stupendous flood has burst we are not interested to search for or explore.

  Woodrow Wilson

  War, Flames, Years

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• Yet the New Testament treats of man and man's so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man's religious or moral nature, or in man even.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Bible, Spiritual, Religious

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.96, Penguin

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• I don't care how much people understand what it is that I'm doing, except if they're players in my ensemble or other ensembles. I just want people to be moved by the music. If you're not moved by the music, then everything else falls away. You're not interested in the text, you're not interested in how it was done, and you're not interested in interviewing the composer and all the rest of it.

  Steve Reich

  Fall, Player, People

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 22, 2006.

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• The idea that you have to drop any thing that you might be interested in doing because you have to pass that test tomorrow and it's something that you're not interested in, that's just the opposite of education. It's also harming teaching, because the teachers are evaluated by the results of the test.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teacher, Teaching, Ideas

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• I'm not interested in making movies only with female protagonists. I think it's ridiculous to think that a female director can't direct men. That makes no sense to me.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Thinking, Men, Directors

  "Elizabeth Banks On Directing, Playing the Hero in ‘Love & Mercy’ and Concluding ‘The Hunger Games’". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, blogs.indiewire.com. September 24, 2015.

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• Gold is the most useless thing in the world. I am not interested in money but in the things of which money is merely a symbol.

  Henry Ford

  Wisdom, Useless Things, Gold

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• A lot of people want to see this idealized version of heroism, all pretty and perfect, and I'm not interested in playing the goody-goody hero at all.

  Matthew Fox

  Hero, People, Perfect

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• The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don't understand that, and I think it's rude. You're at Grandma's house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Grandma, Thinking, People

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. October 13, 2011.

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• My kids are not interested in anything I do. And I mean that not in any dis to my children or dis to me. My kids have their own life, they could give a sh*t what I do.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Children, Mean, Kids

  "Jamie Lee Curtis Interview, You Again". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. September, 2010.

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