I'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in those who accept their lot, as that is what many people in the world are doing. They do their best in ghastly conditions.
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ISABEL ALLENDE I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing ... JOHN FRUSCIANTE Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past. YVONNE CRAIG I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live i... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I was interested in the narrative of how we nurture our elite in this society: all that stuff about ... LENNY ABRAHAMSON I like my parents but they are just not good parents. They are nice enough people. I'm not inter... ADAM CAROLLA I'm really not interested in acting as a facade, I'm interested in it as an emotional expres... BRIE LARSON The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of the world but those who fight and w... JONATHAN HARNISCH Today, I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of mak... FRANçOIS TRUFFAUT I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and t... ELLSWORTH KELLY I've always been more interested in what happens after the bad thing has happened - the fallout ... CHELSEA CAIN Surround yourself with people who are smarter than you. Pick people who are interested in what you... RUSSELL SIMMONS I'm interested in doing movies I wouldn't normally be interested in doing. ERIC STOLTZ People are not really interested in what politicians talk about, but what they are really interested... TSAKHIAGIIN ELBEGDORJ When people who are not black are interested in what I do, frankly, I'm always surprised. I don&... TA-NEHISI COATES As a cameraman, I am interested in images and truth. Today, people are conditioned to accept lies if... HASKELL WEXLER Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history t... JON MEACHAM So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and s... CLAIRE DENIS I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, th... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. I'm interested in movement, and I'm interested in money, and I'm interested in the movem... CONOR MCGREGOR Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in ... GORE VIDAL I am not interested in the ephemeral-such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in... THORNTON WILDER In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their pla... KAZUO ISHIGURO If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into t... DENZEL WASHINGTON It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I ne... MARY MCDONNELL I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. ELIZABETH ARDEN I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. HENRI AMIEL I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel. HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are ... RACHEL WEISZ I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing i... YOUSSOU N'DOUR I'm not interested in just being the hot girl. I'm really goofy, and I love laughing, and th... CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in... FKA TWIGS I love playing different characters and things that are challenging. I'm not interested in safet... AUNJANUE ELLIS But they see themselves as women who are interested in men. They are not men interested in other men... DALE NEAMAN So many people I talk to who work in technology, you ask them, 'What got you interested in scien... ELLEN STOFAN PL is the natural home of all those who are united in favour of change in Malta, and he pledged to f... JOSEPH MUSCAT It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A... ADAM BALDWIN I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communica... MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot ... IAIN GLEN What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English. ERIN MCKEAN Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from th... KATE BRAVERMAN My wife is very interested in fashion. I am absolutely not. I couldn't give a toss. Fashion is a... SIMON WINCHESTER I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why ... ANDREA CORR Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are... VILLE VALO He's doing OK. They talked about how he'll continue his education. He's interested in doing that at ... LANEDRA CARROLL I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult. DANIEL CLOWES Seeing, say, 'My Left Foot,' and 'The Last of the Mohicans.' How is that the same pe... RUPERT FRIEND Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never... ANATOLE FRANCE For me, I skate as masculine as I can. I'm not a big strong guy. I'm not interested in fight... JOHNNY WEIR We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH I realized all the stories I was interested in were Southern stories, ... They are who I am and I ne... CYNTHIA HILL I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense... CHRISTOPHER GUEST Afro-Americans. Which is but a wedding, however, of two confusions, an arbitrary linking of two unde... JAMES BALDWIN People from my first home say I'm brave. They tell me I'm strong. They pat me on the back and say, '... KATIE J. DAVIS Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. People in Scunthorpe don't care what I say. And I'm not camp, either. I'm a geezer. I... BOY GEORGE Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON I'm interested in the real world. EDWARD BOND I'm not interested in trying to work on people's perceptions. I am who I am, and if you don&... JIM BROWN Maybe our young people are not as vacuous as we would like to lead ourselves to believe - that all t... DAVID JAMES ELLIOTT You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my... LUCIAN FREUD There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the div... SAM SHEPARD People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos - they just... CASS MCCOMBS I'm not interested in an imaginary world. EDWARD BOND
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