Not Interested Quotes - Page 18

• It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject.

  Michael Lewis

  Pain, Book, Writing

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• How anybody dresses is indicative of his self-concept. If students are dirty and ragged, it indicates they are not interested in tidying up their intellects either.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Death, Dirty, Self

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• How a club is run is what matters to me. The fewer board members, the better. If it's 18, I'm just not interested.

  Ernst Happel

  Running, What Matters, Boards

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• I am not interested in simply working as a director. If I am not making movies that I want to make, that I feel passionate about, or that I feel are hopefully at the level of cinematic quality that I feel they should be then I am not really that interested.

  Brad Furman

  Quality, Directors, Passionate

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel like my perception has changed a little because when I was posting stuff online it was an extension of my studio and then it started getting some of the attention. Now it's like, "Oh, this is actually a place where you can make money," but I'm not interested in competing in that space. It seems like too much to deal with.

  Kalup Linzy

  Space, Perception, Attention

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm not a big internet guy - not because I'm not interested in what people have to say, but probably because I'm too interested.

  Vince Gilligan

  People, Guy, Internet

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The trouble with the British is that they are not interested in ideas. If Jesus came back today and offered to speak for an hour on British television, they would say, "What! Another talking head?

  John Cleese

  Jesus, Talking, Ideas

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• I'm not interested in
  who suffered the most.
  I'm interested in
  people getting over it.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  People, Oppression, Over It

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1994). “Red Suitcase: Poems”, p.21, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with me politically or you're not interested in the thematics, the story will still keep you turning the pages.

  China Mieville

  Book, Trying, Stories

  Interview with Lou Anders, believermag.com. April 1, 2005.

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• Most black singers like to slow the word down and, and go directly to your heart. They're not interested in your ears, we just want to go directly to your heart.

  Ben E. King

  Heart, Black, Ears

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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'm not interested in building wealth, which is kind of naive and probably frowned on, living in America. It's something that people don't necessarily understand, but if I die poor, I die poor.

  Richard Armitage

  America, People, Building Wealth

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• To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

  George H. Mead

  Self, Disinterest, Goods

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• The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

  Sol LeWitt

  Thinking, Cages

  Interview with Saul Ostrow, bombmagazine.org. October 1, 2003.

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• I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want to relate.

  Lynne Tillman

  Reality, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.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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• I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either.

  Alice Walker

  Unique, Self, Role Models

  Alice Walker (1997). “The Same River Twice”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• When someone asks, 'Why do you think he's not calling me?' there's always one answer - 'He's not interested.' There's not ever any other answer.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Thinking, Dating, Calling

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• I think it started to feel like home when I stopped maintaining any pretense that I was ever going to be in the movie business. I went there like many writers - I had a screenplay deal and I would go to these meetings and it was the typical thing. And I hated it. I was not interested in writing screenplays, actually. But I kept feeling like that was what I was supposed to do. It was just this horrible cognitive dissonance.

  Meghan Daum

  Home, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The Time that Remains is a way of interpreting a certain ambience or emotion. These are the stories that my father told me over the course of fifteen or twenty years. I used to listen to him. From the cowardly part of my character, I'm always in fear of not telling the right story. I'm not interested in making epics.

  Elia Suleiman

  Father, Character, Epic

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• I can't be paralyzed anymore by the critics. My new mantra is, if you're not in the arena getting your ass kicked on occasion, then I'm not interested in your feedback. You don't get to sit in the cheat seat and criticize my appearance or my work with mean-spiritedness if you're also not in the arena.

  Brené Brown

  Mean, Arena, Ass

  "Brené Brown On Why Courage, Vulnerability And Authenticity Have To Be Practiced". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2013.

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• I am making an Enlightenment Capsule for the audience to meditate inside - virtual reality in which people can experience ancient ideas from the East... But I'm not interested in using ancient things; rather I want to connect them with contemporary life through the technology we have now.

  Mariko Mori

  Technology, Reality, Ideas

  Interview with Kunié Sugiura, www.jca-online.com.

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• I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safety at all. That's what makes me get up in the morning.

  Aunjanue Ellis

  Morning, Character, Safety

  "Aunjanue Ellis: Risk Taker". Essence.com Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.

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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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• 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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