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• Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Morning, White, House

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• I've spent a great deal of my life doing independent film, and that is partly because the subject matter interests me and partly because that is the basis of the film industry. That's where the film-makers come from, it's where they start and sometimes its where they should have stayed.

  John Hurt

  Independent, Should Have, Matter

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2000.

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• I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

  Jim Parsons

  Strong, Piano, Age

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

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• The female love interest is boring to me. A female that's interesting, smart, funny - that's what I'm drawn to. I wouldn't say that every character has to be smart, but she has to have one trait I can relate to.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Smart, Character, Interesting

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• John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our world which has stayed with me through my life. Geography is a living, breathing subject, constantly adapting itself to change. It is dynamic and relevant. For me geography is a great adventure with a purpose.

  Michael Palin

  Teacher, School, Adventure

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• Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

  Peter Jennings

  Confused, Spirituality, Driven

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• I'm still going to do television. I'm just not going to do morning television. I would like to do some things that satisfy interests, private interests.

  Bryant Gumbel

  Morning, Television, Stills

  "Exclusive: Interview With Bryant Gumbel (and His Fiance)". Interview with Barbara Walters, abcnews.go.com.

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• There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Art, Gone

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• My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything?

  Duke Ellington

  Music, Writing, Problem

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• Attention should be paid to this question of our soul, and not simply to accounting procedures. Attention should be paid to the interest of those who are yet unborn, who should be able to see this generation as it saw itself, and the past generation as it saw itself.

  George Lucas

  Past, Soul, This Generation

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• Guys are so predictable. They can't seem to separate fantasy from reality, so I get a lot of bikers and race car drivers hitting on me. They're all just playboys, so they don't interest me.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Reality, Race, Car

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• A long time ago I learned not to put the blame for backwardness in Brazil on the US. We have to blame ourselves. Our backwardness is caused by an elite which for a century didn't think about the majority and subordinated itself to foreign interests.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Thinking, Long, Majority

  "Brazil rejects Bush move on climate change talks". Interview with John Vidal and Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2007.

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• I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things.

  Jude Law

  Actors, Want, Honestly

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

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• Too often in the past, U.S. leaders have forced Israel to pay the price for American strategic interests in the Middle East - through concessions in the peace process as well as passivity in the face of Iraqi attacks

  Ron Silver

  Peace, Past, Pay The Price

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• I've always had an incredible interest in the villains, which are a lot more fun to play.

  Joseph Morgan

  Fun, Play, Villain

  "Exclusive: Joseph Morgan Talks THE VAMPIRE DIARIES and IMMORTALS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 9, 2011.

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• I'm not a caterer. I just have to stay with my creative convictions. At some point, you have to just get past the special-interest groups and do what you're there to do, which is make a movie.

  Ron Howard

  Past, Creative, Special

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

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• A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.

  Man Ray

  Cameras, Doe, Needs

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• I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.

  Edward Burns

  Years, Guy, Television

  "Ed Burns, Lead Singer for the Indie-Rock Movies of Our Time". Interview with Matt Sullivan, www.esquire.com. December 22, 2011.

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• America has never paid any attention to other people, so it's absurd for Bush to say that it's all in the best interests of the Iraqi people.

  Richard Gere

  America, People, Attention

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.

  LeVar Burton

  Stars, People, Generations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.

  Arsene Wenger

  Team, Thinking, Too Much

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• I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

  Ted Shackelford

  Writing

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• The public interest always surprises me. I come to work in these rooms with no windows. At night I go home. I just live my life. I guess I just don't think much about whether people are going to watch. Most of my friends don't know much about what I do, and we don't talk about it. I have a different life away from work. Which is fine, because my work can get pretty intense.

  Dave Goelz

  Home, Night, Thinking

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• I don't think of it at the moment, but the roles that interest me are those of young people.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Thinking, People, Roles

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• I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.

  Ashley Judd

  Thinking, Assets

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