Interesting Quotes - Page 29

• If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Book, Reading, Writing

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2008). “The History of Pendennis (Volume 2 of 2 ) (EasyRead Edition)”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Secret, Important, Pensive

  "Michael Ondaatje: The Cat's Table" by Christian Williams, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Family, Daughter, Fathers Day

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• It will be very interesting one day to follow the pattern of our life as it is spread out like a beautiful tapestry. As long as we live here we see only the reverse side of the weaving, and very often the pattern, with its threads running wildly, doesn't seem to make sense. Some day, however, we shall understand. In looking back over the years we can discover how a red thread goes through the pattern of our life: the Will of God.

  Maria von Trapp

  Beautiful, Running, Years

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• I don't mind how much my Ministers talk, so long as they do what I say.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Long, Political, Mind

  In Observer 27 Jan. 1980

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• At least I know that one film-maker in my career has had the initiative to come to me and thought of me as being capable of doing interesting and complicated work, and so I have a new-found belief that other film-makers will see me in a different way, the way that Patty did.

  Charlize Theron

  Careers, Different, Way

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• 'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Years, Three, Red

  "Olivia Thirlby Talks Playing a Bad Ass in DREDD, Comic-Con and Her Other Projects, Including NOBODY WALKS, RED KNOT and THE MOVIE". collider.com. July 27, 2012.

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• My grandfather was a man, when he talked about freedom, his attitude was really interesting. His view was that you had obligations or you had responsibilities, and when you fulfilled those obligations or responsibilities, that then gave you the liberty to do other things.

  Clarence Thomas

  Attitude, Responsibility, Men

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• The future is too interesting and dangerous to be entrusted to any predictable, reliable agency. We need all the fallibility we can get. Most of all, we need to preserve the absolute unpredictability and total improbability of our connected minds. That way we can keep open all the options, as we have in the past.

  Lewis Thomas

  Past, Agency, Mind

  "The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher". Book by Lewis Thomas, 1974.

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• If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.

  Emma Thompson

  Writing, Creative, Instinct

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• (Talks about Lucky You) "The song was about a girl who didn't fit in and she didn't care and she was different than everyone else. I think there's a long chorus of me singing "Do do do do do do do do do do". It's very young and I look back and it's kind of interesting to hear those kind of storylines and the lyrics that I used to write compared to the lyrics that I write now.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Song, Writing

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• Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were good lies, full of kisses and daring escapes and the occasional act of barbarism. I can’t abide a poor liar.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Lying, Liars, Writing

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.102, Macmillan

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• You know being relevant or coming up with something interesting, funny to say about what's current is just as hard as it might ever be depending on the serendipity of it all.

  Lily Tomlin

  Funny, Serendipity, Might

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• What I find most interesting is how people really have taken Linux and used it in ways and attributes and motivations that I never felt.

  Linus Torvalds

  Motivation, Taken, People

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• People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.

  Linus Torvalds

  People, Feelings, Groups

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• An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.

  Linus Torvalds

  Writing, People, Care

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• I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see it, the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there.

  Linus Torvalds

  Looks, Window, Economy

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• You notice that he does not ask, Where am I?" says the Mayor's voice, moving out there, somewhere. "His first words are, Where is she? And his Noise says the same. Interesting.

  Patrick Ness

  Moving, Voice, Doe

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• But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.

  Pete Townshend

  Thinking, People, Example

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• As you get older, you have to force yourself to have new dreams. For instance, I've been flying for 37 years, but now teaching others to fly is interesting for me. Sometimes you have to find new angles on life to keep you interested, like sharing successes and inspiring and helping others.

  John Travolta

  Dream, Teaching, Helping Others

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

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• My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.

  Steve Vai

  Writing, Past, Treasure

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

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• The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.

  Eddie Vedder

  Baseball, League, President

  Interview with Josh Brolin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2008.

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• I actually enjoy being heckled; it keeps it interesting, and I think it is a nice feeling for people once they have left the show.

  Johnny Vegas

  Nice, Thinking, Las Vegas

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• I'm getting positive feedback for my acting so we'll see if any other interesting parts come up.

  Johnny Vegas

  Las Vegas, Acting, Feedback

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• Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder.

  Tom Waits

  Song, Morning, Writing

  Interview with The Onion A.V. Club, www.avclub.com. May 29, 2002.

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