Very Interesting Quotes - Page 17

• I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but that's not always true, just because of popular taste or any other reasons. When something doesn't do better than it deserves to in your mind, it's pretty transparent - you usually know why. Is that a comfort? Yes, because it's logical. Does it make you happy? No, because if you think a movie is beautiful or interesting, you want to share it. Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not.

  Willem Dafoe

  Beautiful, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• American culture is kind of a universal culture, I guess. It's things Greeks grew up with, common references you can use. It's very interesting.

  Yorgos Lanthimos

  Interesting, Greek, Culture

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I don't like filmmakers to tell people how they should react to their movies. I absolutely have favorites, and I have others that I'm mortified by, but I keep that to myself. I think I've managed to find some very interesting things that I've been very satisfied with recently. I don't know if that's gonna keep going.

  Christian Bale

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• Women spend 30 percent more time doing household chores. No surprise. But women also spend more time volunteering in their community. And if you add up all of the hours of non-leisure time, women are working more than men. So I thought that was very interesting, and I was surprised about the voluntarism piece, but when you think about it, it makes sense.

  Valerie Jarrett

  Men, Thinking, Volunteer

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Clearly there are some things about WikiLeaks... the material is in part very interesting although none of it is a real game-changer. I think if I was an American I'd be rather proud that American diplomats are quite assiduous in the way that they chronicle issues. Of course the impact has been that the whole culture of sharing is going down the tube.

  Misha Glenny

  Real, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What's great about symbols, what a writer can do with them is provide a really vivid, interesting image, and the reader will do the rest of the work. That's always been very interesting to me. Like if I just introduce the storks, I don't have to say what they mean because the reader will do that. And if I bring in the dark history of the region, other trends come up, for example how in ancient Egypt they are associated with the souls of the dead. You can surprise yourself by introducing an image and then see how developing the story fills it with meaning that is suddenly new.

  Miroslav Penkov

  Mean, Dark, Interesting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Either we all commit suicide together or guarantee institutions that provide stability for all. We need reforms that are enduring, so people aren't frightened. Our first year is going to be very interesting.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Suicide, Interesting, People

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Listening to people discussing a novel can be very interesting, if you've read whatever novel is being discussed. No one, it seems, ever says, "This is a great book but I didn't like it." Taking a little time to think about why this might be has been very liberating.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  Book, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To me, Sheitan movie is the answer to all the problems we have in France concerning immigration. That is a fake problem; people can actually work together and do something very interesting out of it.

  Vincent Cassel

  People, Interesting, Fake

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I spend a lot of time on Twitter, and it's a very interesting place. People are so driven to aggression. To me it's a funny thing. I grew up in an aggressive family, so I'm not at all intimidated by being verbally abused. I have no fear with words.

  Alison Moyet

  People, Interesting, No Fear

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• It's very interesting to read why Cornelius Cardew became disenchanted with academic avant-garde music. He wanted to reach as many people as possible and change their consciousness. He wanted to reach the "working classes" in England. The kind of music he was making was very much from the academy, even though it had a lot in common with things like free jazz and improvisation, and he felt that it was the music of the elite, and that he wasn't really speaking to the people.

  Alasdair MacLean

  People, Interesting, Jazz

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I did one interview with the Atlantic. It was very interesting; I could write an entire book on that one experience. I've never had any type of public persona outside of the face recognition I have with this job, so I was really ill prepared to have this conversation. I think the real story was that it became a source for a flurry of other derivative stories. I remember the Post headline said "Marcarelli's Bizarre Life," which to me is code for gay, primarily.

  Paul Marcarelli

  Real, Book, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm bored with DJs. Anybody that puts the title DJ in front of their name immediately turns me off. I prefer the term "sampling," because it has both the dilettante side, like someone tasting wine or caviar, but also functions as a kind of litmus paper dipped into culture. And the whole semi-legality of sampling is very interesting as well. So a DJ is not really creative enough for me to be an appropriate metaphor.

  Momus

  Wine, Interesting, Bored

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that some people have wonderful spots. I think that Karl Lagerfeld has a wonderful spot designing for Chanel. They really just let him go. I think John Galliano is a huge talent. Marc Jacobs is also a huge talent - and a very interesting one to me.

  Polly Allen Mellen

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think Rihanna is very interesting. But those people, the singers especially, know how to handle themselves because they're in the limelight. That's why it has grown into something where the model has stepped back - and I don't know if it's coming forward again.

  Nicolas Ghesquiere

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My work is nice, natural, it's never "been there done that," my work remains very interesting without losing my soul - because it's really me, and I am always honest with myself. I don't care what's in or out, I just listen to myself. And it's very nice to able to work like that. At the beginning people might have wondered what I was doing, but now they know my line, my evolution, I'm respected for that and that's a wonderful feeling.

  Ann Demeulemeester

  Nice, Interesting, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I don't have anything to say, I don't publish. Rather than posting something that's not very interesting, it's best to wait until you have something that really inspires you and makes you laugh.

  Garance Dore

  Laughing, Interesting, Waiting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We're spending, on average, 27 minutes a day cooking and about four minutes cleaning up, so basically about a half hour. Any one of TV shows takes twice as long to watch as that, which I think is very interesting because the main excuse people give for not cooking is they don't have time to cook, but somehow they're finding time to watch other people cook or eat on TV.

  Michael Pollan

  Thinking, Long, People

  "Michael Pollan On Cooking As A Spectator Sport". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. August 3, 2009.

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• I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

  Paul Giamatti

  Interesting, Actors, Persons

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

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• There is a reward structure in science that is very interesting: Our highest honors go to those who disprove the findings of the most revered among us. So Einstein is revered not just because he made so many fundamental contributions to science, but because he found an imperfection in the fundamental contribution of Isaac Newton.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Interesting, Imperfection

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• Let’s just say that being able to contact ghosts makes for some very interesting ménages á trios… and ménages á quartre, and ménages á … whatever five is in French. ~Jaime Vegas

  Kelley Armstrong

  Vegas, Interesting, Able

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• What's very interesting about the violence in Lebanon and the violence in Iraq and the violence in Gaza is this: These are all groups of terrorists who are trying to stop the advance of democracy. They're trying to thwart the will of millions who simply want a normal, hopeful life. That's what we're seeing.

  George W. Bush

  Interesting, Hopeful, Trying

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle for the questions. If the questions are interesting, I feel I evoke them in what I do. I feel that should be good enough for everyone else.

  Jack Kirby

  Interesting, Answers, Life Is

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• Since Star Wars, that film's success led to bigger budgets, more hardware, that the great movies like the ones I did, which were studio movies, are now independent movies. They range from half a million to several million, and a lot of those have very interesting roles.

  Faye Dunaway

  Stars, War, Independent

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• The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination, in a tight straightjacket.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Play, Games, Interesting

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.85, Princeton University Press

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