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• One of the interesting things I discovered is that in the late 19th century, painters actually had black-and-white copies made of their own paintings. They chose it even over photographs because they knew the photographic medium would distort their work.

  Robert Longo

  Black And White, Interesting, Painting

  Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• One of the interesting things about being in public life is there are constantly these pressures being placed on you from different sides. To be effective, you have to be able to listen to a variety of points of view, synthesize viewpoints.

  Barack Obama

  Views, Interesting, Able

  "Obama’s Fascinating Interview with Cathleen Falsani". www.beliefnet.com. March 27.

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• The interesting thing is that in everyday life, I fail to see the most ordinary things. I often stumble and sometimes I even fall over. But when I draw or look at a painting, I go into a sort of overdrive and just see things differently than other people.

  Wolfgang Beltracchi

  Fall, People, Interesting

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• If I had interesting things to say, I would have been a speechwriter. I think it gets to musicians' heads a lot of the time. Just because people like your records doesn't mean what you have to say is going to be interesting.

  Aesop Rock

  Mean, Thinking, Interesting

  Interview with David Ma, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2007.

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• Make the time to be scared of more interesting things.

  Merlin Mann

  Interesting, Scared

  Inbox Zero theme statement at "Kung Fu Grippe" personal blog, www.kungfugrippe.com. 2012.

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• The rattling of the relays of the Z4 was the only interesting thing to be experienced in Zurich's night life!

  Konrad Zuse

  Night, Zurich, Interesting

  "The First Computers: History and Architectures". Book by Ra L Rojas, p. 270, 2002.

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• When I stopped smoking cigars it was the biggest mistake I made in my life. So my resolution for 98 is Im going to start smoking cigars again. I gave them up about a year and a half ago, and I now realize that it may have been my one last fun, interesting thing to do.

  David Letterman

  Fun, Mistake, Years

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• I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

  F. Murray Abraham

  Interesting, Wonderful, Materials

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

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• The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.

  Diane Sawyer

  Interesting, Mind, Literature

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• Sometimes when Im nervous, thats when the most interesting things happen.

  Chelsea Peretti

  Interesting, Sometimes, Nervous

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• One of the interesting things is, the most gifted people, the biggest people, have no problem taking small roles.

  Woody Allen

  People, Interesting, Roles

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• Well to me the most interesting things can be an actor's facial expression, a gesture, the movement of a body - all those things that we are saying to each other in-between the words.

  Julia Loktev

  Expression, Interesting, Actors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.

  Richard Benjamin

  Atlanta, Class, People

  "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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• I think Hillary Clinton is a militarist. She is a political coward. The interesting thing about Hilary Clinton, like Bill Clinton dodging the draft, he never touched the Pentagon - she is in the same position.

  Ralph Nader

  Thinking, Interesting, Political

  "A Portrait of the Crusader as a Young Man". Interview with Koshlan Mayer-Blackwell, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• One of the fairly interesting things about money is that it makes certain things possible that wouldn't be possible otherwise - it doesn't make them inevitable. Hence the strange blindness of economists to what would actually happen when one does exchange things if there isn't money in such contexts.

  David Graeber

  Interesting, Doe, Strange

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As a writer of criticism, the consumer thing is the least interesting thing, but as a critic, the single worst thing you can do is send a reader to waste time and money on something - even if it's something you personally love. You have to indicate the reasons why you love it and they'll hate it.

  Jonathan Gold

  Hate, Love You, Interesting

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I think there's an element to this business that writers especially are overlooked in many ways and this made everybody kind of look at us differently. I do think that an interesting thing happened during it, which was being on these picket lines and looking at the huge amount of executives coming and going that you realize don't really add much to the equation.

  Edward Allen Bernero

  Thinking, Interesting, Elements

  Source: deadline.com

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• The interesting thing about procrastination is that is has more to do with what we fail to do than with what we do.

  Nido R Qubein

  Procrastination, Interesting, Failing

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• Reputation is a very interesting thing, and I always give people the benefit of the doubt, and I think that there's a part of all of us, especially in a generation where a lot of the stuff gets recorded.

  Damon Lindelof

  Thinking, People, Giving

  "Damon Lindelof on Struggling With Depression and Why Knowing J.J. Abrams is 'A Bit of a Curse'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 8, 2015.

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• A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and setting it before him in black and white.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Black And White, Thinking, Interesting

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2005). “The Country of the Pointed Firs: And Selected Short Fiction”, Barnes & Noble

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• I don't mind violence, but it's quite an interesting thing for people to deal with. I don't know many people that like fighting. I certainly don't, myself. But it's always interesting to work on a shows where there's so much violence, as a part of the world.

  Antony Starr

  Fighting, People, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the interesting things about "outsidership" is that underneath it there's a longing to belong. I just wish the thing I refused to belong to - the species, Western capital culture - was a little more respectable. My one true relaxation is my flotation tank, in which I can either meditate or just drift off.

  George Carlin

  Interesting, Relaxation, Wish

  Interview with Ricky Young, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• An interesting thing about the beginning of our friendship and professional collaboration [with Tina Fey] was that the improve scenes we would do together were basically dramatic and not funny at all.

  Amy Poehler

  Interesting, Together, Collaboration

  Source: egomagazine.ae

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• The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all kind of mixed up.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Mean, People

  Source: outfront.blogs.cnn.com

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• I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.

  Jerry Robinson

  Hero, Interesting, Exotic

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