Not Interested Quotes - Page 23

• I was starting a group of musicians and we had a group of young composers in Finland back in the '70s, and the real conductors, the professional conductors at the time were not interested in our stuff.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Real, Musician, Groups

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I don't want to infantilize the actor; I want to empower the actor. Actors can be many things, but all of the really good ones are really great storytellers, and I'm interested in that. If you're not interested in that as a director then you better be Stanley Kurbrick.

  Paul Bettany

  Empowering, Directors, Actors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of individual interest, and gain, from people's psychological motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life.

  Che Guevara

  Motivation, Fighting, People

  "The Many Faces of Socialism Comparative Sociology and Politics". Book by Paul Hollander, p. 224, 1983.

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• [I like to] engage with funny people, or weird people, or, you know, kind of off people. [Whereas when I meet] anybody who's ... normal ... I'm not curious, I'm not interested.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  People, Normal, Kind

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• As soon as your mind knows that it's on and it's supposed to produce some lines, either it doesn't or it produces things that are very predictable. And that's why I say I'm not interested in writing something that I thought about. I'm interested in discovering where my mind wants to go, or what object it wants to pick up.

  Paul Simon

  Writing, Mind, Lines

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• Most English writers are not interested in change but in the social novel. That demands a static backdrop. I'm intensely interested in change - probably as a matter of self-preservation. What the hell is going to happen next?

  J. G. Ballard

  Self, Demand, Matter

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• I'm not interested in the TV much. I quit watching the news a couple years ago and my outlook on life has gotten a whole lot better.

  Tom Petty

  Couple, Outlook On Life, Years

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• Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.

  Richard Serra

  Determination, Art, People

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• Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

  Ezra Pound

  Poet

  Ezra Pound (1968). “Literary Essays of Ezra Pound”, p.437, New Directions Publishing

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• The surest way to get a VC interested is to say that you're not interested in taking VC money.

  Chris Yeh

  Way

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• Homosexuals are not interested in making other people homosexuals. Homophobes are interested in making other people homophobes.

  Stephen Fry

  People, Homophobes, Homosexual

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• I remember how surprised I was when my first novel was about to be published and I was informed that I could be sued for anything any one of my characters said. 'But I often don't agree with what they say,' I protested. The lawyer was not interested in the clear distinction I make between my own voice and the voices of my characters. Neither, I have found, are many of my readers.

  Jane Rule

  Character, Voice, Firsts

  Jane Rule (2013). “Outlander: Short Stories and Essays”, p.213, Open Road Media

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• You cannot spend two thousand years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we’re not interested in it anymore.

  Martin Walser

  Years, Trying, Abandon

  "We Cannot Retreat To Atheism". Interview with Alexander Görlach, www.theeuropean-magazine.com. September 3, 2012.

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• Some people work to have a weekend and so on the weekend they genuinely don't think about anything apart from the fact that they're on their weekend. Some people are like that so maybe some people would be like, "Yeah that'd be great. Take away my anxiety and give me a nice lounge chair." But I would be so not interested in that.

  Kristen Stewart

  Nice, Weekend, Thinking

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself.

  Jay Neugeboren

  Book, Style

  Source: www.jewishbookcouncil.org

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• When you recite you're giving a performance, in the way that an actor or a singer performs, and some poets are not interested in doing that, maybe because they're writing for a readership as opposed to an audience, or because they see poetry as a very private art.

  James Arthur

  Art, Writing, Giving

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• I'm very careful about violence in games. I'm not interested in creating violent effects.

  Satoshi Tajiri

  Games, Creating, Violence

  "The Ultimate Game Freak". Time Magazine Interview (Volume 154, No. 20), content.time.com. November 22, 1999.

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• I am not interested in an economic liberation of man without the liberation of the whole man.

  Ernesto Cardenal

  Men, Economic, Liberation

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.

  Ernesto Cardenal

  Sake

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Once you say something, it stays said. I apologized to anyone who may have been hurt by what I said, and I really meant it. I am absolutely not interested in hurting anyone, or being mean or insensitive.

  Henry Rollins

  Hurt, Mean, May

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• Not interested. I didn't try very hard. I went to boarding school on a sports' scholarship after I bowled a cricket ball into my old headmaster's leg. He said, 'Christ, that was accurate,' and got it for me. But I walked out at 16.

  Tony Blackburn

  Sports, School, Trying

  The MIRROR Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 25, 2007.

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• I'm not interested in a persona.

  Chris Robinson

  Persona

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

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• There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

  Alan Ball

  Culture, Victimhood, Victimization

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• Eating takes a special talent. Some people are much better at it than others. In that way, it is like sex, and as with sex, it's more fun with someone who really likes it. I can't imagine having a lasting friendship with anyone who is not interested in food.

  Alan King

  Sex, Fun, Food

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• You saw a lot of guys, especially in the early '90s, whose acts were a pitch for a sitcom. A lot of them were very funny, but there's nothing worse than watching comedians or musicians who are up there and are doing something they're not interested in.

  Patton Oswalt

  Guy, Comedian, Musician

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. August 26, 2009.

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