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Last updated on April 15, 2025.
Work in nightclubs was interesting. There were interesting people and places, but by and large, the commercial music experience.
Learning things that are interesting and other people would find interesting is the biggest rush.
We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner — © Friedrich Nietzsche
We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner
Anyone who tries to write a memoir needs to keep in mind that what's interesting to you isn't necessarily interesting to a reader.
The most interesting things you learn in an interviews come from the: 'interesting', 'tell me more'
I believe in the lessons of life. Some things are mapped out for us. By that I don't mean that you wait for things to happen, but it's interesting the way our lives are like a jigsaw where sometimes the pieces don't fit - and other times they do.
I wish that something interesting would come across the desk. I'm bored by what people think is interesting.
Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
There's an interesting trend that occurs in times of mounting pressure and high uncertainty, which is that it's a natural human tendency to seek out people that agree with us, that are similar to us because it's a source of comfort in a world that's so rapidly changing.
I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
It's only interesting when you're from somewhere else, like America or Japan. The further away the more interesting it is.
The older I get, the more interesting the part has to be. Bobby Knight is extremely interesting.
High school was interesting. For the most part, I quite enjoyed it. But everyone is trying to find their footing, and school can be a tough environment. Kids can be cruel to each other. It's quite unforgiving at times.
All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner. — © Mavis Gallant
All lives are interesting; no one life is more interesting than another. Its fascination depends on how much is revealed, and in what manner.
So this is one of those times when life is just handing you something, telling you what to do, which way to go. So enjoy it. It'll be fun. I guarantee. I can't guarantee we'll find the goddamn thing, but it'll be interesting. Then if we do find it - if we do- the payoff's huge.
That's the secret: be interesting. If you can't be interesting, shut up. There's nothing wrong with silence.
It's not the number of trucks parked outside that make a movie interesting but if you have more money, you have more time. More time enables you to try out other possibilities or follow an interesting lead. I don't like indulgence, but to have more possibilities is always more interesting.
I love not being in a comfortable state, anyway. That makes for much more interesting storylines and an interesting story.
With any mannerisms or dialogue, you have to be careful you're not just serving yourself. What happens with improving is a lot of times, if you're not in the framework of the script, you're just making everything easier so it fits you. It's much more interesting and challenging to go to it, rather than it coming to you.
I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.
I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.
Each time, I try to find a family of interesting faces. I follow the tradition of films from the 40s - at this time, there were so many interesting faces in France. I often work with the same because there are not thousands and thousands in France. I'm looking for interesting faces and characters actors, and it's not for everybody.
Billy Tauzin is one of the most interesting people in Washington. He is smart, funny, and interesting.
I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring.
I was first in Sydney in 1993, and have been a few times since then. For someone who didn't know Australia, it came as a shock how intelligent, interesting and funny the people were. If I lived there I might see it differently, but as a visitor it was a lot of fun.
Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
I believe humanity is a pretty interesting lot, and they're all really busy doing and thinking interesting things.
It's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it?
Tools get socially interesting after they're no longer technologically interesting.
A lot of times, when you're acting, you have to explain things to the audience, and it's boring work to do that. It's really hard to make that interesting. I like the discovery of characters. I think people are smart. Audiences are intelligent and can figure things out by just watching behaviors.
When young girls are encouraged to explore what they find interesting, they grow up to be interesting women.
Visually, a lot of the electronic artists have really interesting video and interesting things like that.
Penguin is this interesting figure within the city of Gotham. He's this guy who has worked in the shadows and publicly. He's skirted the line between lawful and completely chaotic or villainous. He's risen and fallen multiple times in the ways that pretty much no other character can dream of.
It would be interesting to inquire how many times essential advances in science have first been made possible by the fact that the boundaries of special disciplines were not respected... Trespassing is one of the most successful techniques in science.
Unless you can begin with an interesting problem, it is unlikely you will end up with an interesting solution.
I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.
I like what I do, and a lot of these projects have really interesting material and interesting people to work with. I feel lucky.
The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world. — © John Barth
The first obligation of the writer is to be interesting. To be interesting; not to change the world.
Many times, one does get interesting work, but it is also work that doesn't get funded because one sure-shot way to get funding is to take a big star.
There is a huge market for interesting content to be made by interesting creators.
Journalists are interesting. They just aren't as interesting as the things they cover.
The interesting thing about Cleopatra is that she is such a shape-shifter. I mean through history we've all molded her to our times and our places. So there's room for a movie for her, but I don't think it will hew to the book.
Things aren't interesting if you level them. It's the voice that's interesting.
I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations.
I write about people I think are interesting, and then I discuss it with my editor, and she decides if she thinks it will be interesting to children as well. If I have no great interest in the subject, I find the work to be terribly boring. And if I find the person interesting, I love the research part and, by extension, the writing as well.
I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies.
There are films that look very interesting when on paper, but things change while shooting. At times, things changed during post-production, and I see no reason to blame anything on anyone. It is a collaborative effort. If it failed, we should face it.
People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.
Never is the gospel of Jesus Christ more beautiful than in times of intense need, or in times of a severe storm within us as individuals, or in times of confusion and turmoil.
I'm trying to keep a good record and do interesting movies with interesting filmmakers. — © Barry Keoghan
I'm trying to keep a good record and do interesting movies with interesting filmmakers.
I dare make those comparisons, but we often said 'the making of' would be as interesting if not more interesting than the film.
Shouldn't schools be the place where students interact with interesting books? Shouldn't the faculty have an ongoing laser-like commitment to put good books in our students' hands? Shouldn't this be a front-burner issue at all times?
I think you'll find, when you're married, that it isn't nearly so important for you to be interesting as it is to make your husband feel that he's interesting.
Time is so fast that all times are past times! When you look at a photo of the past, you must know that you are already in the album, someone else is looking at your photo! All times are past times!
People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting organisms.
There still aren't many black women on prime-time TV. Times are changing, but it's interesting: we're in 2013 and still experiencing firsts... Hopefully, in the next 100 years, things will balance even more.
Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.
If you repeat yourself, then I think you're in danger of losing that fan base, because if you're not interesting yourselves, you're not interesting your audience.
My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting people.'
The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come to the attention of those in authority" and finish with "may the gods give you everything you ask for." I have no idea about its authenticity.
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