Not Interested Quotes - Page 15

• You become a monk and you practice and the teacher tells you what to do. If you find that you have a resistance to that, and the resistance is strong, it just means you're not interested. Why put yourself through some sort of torture. It means you weren't that interested.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Strong, Mean

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• I'm not interested in being a wife. I'm interested in being an empress.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Women, Wife, Empresses

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• I'm not interested in popular culture, particularly. I'm not against it, I'm not avoiding it, but I'm not interested in it as a force in life.

  Joe Bradley

  Culture, Force, Avoiding

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I’m not interested in the words or the meaning of the words. I’m interested in disappearing in it completely, to not be aware of yourself at all. That’s the way music works for me. It’s purely emotional. It goes straight to the heart. There are no explanations. That’s just it.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  Heart, Emotional, Way

  "In Search of Karl Ove Knausgard". Interview with Jared Levy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view.

  Margaret Atwood

  Character, Cutting, Views

  Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. July/August 1997.

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• I'm not interested in breaking news. I'm interested in telling the story of what's going on and then trying to figure it out.

  Glenn Beck

  Trying, News, Stories

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• I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

  Lady Gaga

  Artist, People, Next

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• I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

  Noel Gallagher

  Talent, Making Money, Cursed

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• I enjoy reading blogs, but am not interested in having my spurious thoughts out there.

  Brian Greene

  Reading, Enjoy, Blogs

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• I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.

  Robert Redford

  Golf, Film, Metaphor

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• Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

  Alan Rickman

  Character, Play, Together

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• Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.

  Auguste Rodin

  Art, Looks, Different

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• It is only when someone cannot defend his opinion, and is not interested in believing the truth, that he will attempt to stifle discussion with good manners. Those who take religion, politics and sex seriously do not adhere to the general prohibition on discussing these topics. And they do not take offence when they are shown to be wrong.
  If you start to feel during a discussion, that you are not so much incorrect as insensitive, then you are probably dealing with a respectable bigot.

  Jamie Whyte

  Sex, Believe, Good Man

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• I tell you, I'm never going to stop. I'm not interested in rusting away.

  Dick Biondi

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

  Libba Bray

  Polite, Being Polite

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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 am creating an atmosphere! Oh, Unc, we’ve finally got bodies in this joint! Paying bodies. We could have a good racket going here.” “I’m not interested in a ‘racket.’ I’m an academic.” “That’s okay, Unc. I won’t hold it against you.

  Libba Bray

  Creating, Atmosphere, Body

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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 being fearful. I'm not a good flyer, but that doesn't stop me.

  Kate Hudson

  Flyers, Fearful

  "Le Divorce - Kate Hudson Q&A". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Everything that we do I pretty much want to be organic, so if that happens, then that's okay with me. But I'm not interested in trying to re-create what once was. That doesn't interest me; it's boring.

  Pat Benatar

  Trying, Want, Boring

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, believermag.com. May 1, 2003.

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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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• I love "Heartbreaker." "Heartbreaker" stands up for me still. It still works to me. The sentiment is still timely and it just works. But I don't want to do that again. I'm not interested in re-creating that. That was great and I'll just leave it there.

  Pat Benatar

  Creating, Want, Heartbreaker

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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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