I've always been tremendously interested in criminal law. It goes to a deep interest I have in prisons and the criminal element, and what we do as a society with it. I've always been touched by the idea of criminality.
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Related I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader. LEVAR BURTON I don't know really. I've always been interested in the small picture instead of the big one... ADRIAN LYNE I've always been interested in the idea of people who fell through the cracks. PETER CAPALDI Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found... MICHAEL POLLAN I've always been interested in what happens in the studio. BRUCE NAUMAN As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be l... PETER STEELE I've always been interested in the outsider. CHARLES DE LINT I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans. STEVEN SPIELBERG I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them. HENRY JAMES I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to fil... SAM RAIMI Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for?... JACK KEVORKIAN I'm a hacker, but I'm the good kind of hackers. And I've never been a criminal. MIKKO HYPPONEN My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested i... AARON STANFORD I've always been this strong-willed person and I've always been in love with acting. KRISTY SWANSON I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that s... PETER ACKROYD I've always been very happy. I've always been easy going and I've always been very encou... JOEL OSTEEN I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people. LYDIA MILLET I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want... LARRY WALL I've always been interested in mindfulness and alternative ways of seeing the world. FINN JONES You have to keep challenging yourself. I've always tried to do that, and I'm not saying I... PAUL WELLER Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that ... OLIVIA D'ABO I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what... JAMIE CULLUM I'm really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I've always been fascinated wit... VICTORIA AVEYARD It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've alwa... KEVIN PLANK I've always danced. I've always been around it. LACEY SCHWIMMER I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relat... BEAU BRIDGES I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the sourc... JACK BRUCE Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly ... EDWARD HOPPER I've always been a huge fantasy fan. I was always interested in fairy tales and anything with ma... SARAH J. MAAS I've always been interested in the Depression as this very dramatic pivotal period in American h... RON HOWARD So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual pers... SOPHIA BUSH I've always been a rocker. Like ever since I was really young. I had a crush on the Green Day gu... ASHLEE SIMPSON I've been hot, I've been lukewarm, I've been freezing, but I've always been a headli... DON RICKLES I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought agains... HARRY BELAFONTE I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It... PATRICK FISCHLER I've been interested in dreams since I as a kid and I've wanted to do a film about them for ... CHRISTOPHER NOLAN I've always been a fan of advertising, I've always been a fan of television, I've loved ... JON HAMM Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's som... MANISH DAYAL I've always been interested in moments of disbelief... I don't know if they possess any magi... DAN COLEN Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology. RACHEL TRUE I've always been interested in singing. My sister's a fantastic singer, and it's just so... CHARLIE ROWE But I've always liked to be the kind of drummer and musician who likes to go outside of what'... MATT CAMERON I've always been really uninterested in politicians and the acts of the Houses of Parliament, or... EWAN MCGREGOR I am interested in people living in the margins of society, and I do have a mission to tell the stor... LYNN NOTTAGE I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotio... TATIANA DE ROSNAY I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performi... LANGHORNE SLIM I've always been me. I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very... BEV PERDUE I've always been really nationalistic, and I had a brother killed in Korea. And I think the '... JERRY WEST For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. An... KATE MICUCCI I've always had to create my own markets and I've always been at a juncture in my career. TRACEY ULLMAN I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one ... EDDI READER I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show. AARON LAZAR I've always been a liberal and I've always had strong socialist leanings. DAVID LLOYD I've always been a follower of silent movies. I see film as a visual medium with a musical accom... GEORGE LUCAS Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master crimin... FRANK ABAGNALE Nah, I've always had a great relationship with my two brothers, I have always had their support ... LIONEL MESSI If you want to slice into America, it's pretty red, white, and blue in terms of how it goes abou... ROBERT REDFORD I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Ear... AL PACINO I have always been Fred Durst and I've always been me. FRED DURST I've always been interested in the industrialization of our food; it's been an issue for me ... RICHARD LINKLATER And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invadin... STEPHEN KING Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we&... LACEY SCHWIMMER I grew up hunting and fishing. I've always been into archery. I've always been into cars... ... PAUL WALKER I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person. JULIANA HATFIELD I've always been the king of silence. I've always been a minimalist comedian. I've taken... ALBERT BROOKS I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - w... BARBARA KOPPLE I don't think I've ever been haunted by a ghost, but I always joke with my fiance about the ... KATEE SACKHOFF I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascina... EDGAR WRIGHT I've always been asked, 'What is my favorite car?' and I've always said 'The nex... CARROLL SHELBY I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm n... AARON KOBLIN We've always had anti-Muslim bigots, but they've always been at the fringes of society. IBRAHIM HOOPER I've always been a private person, and I've always valued my private life. AMBER HEARD I think I've always been interested in playing people who are judged very harshly. CHRISTINA RICCI I've always been a writer, and in high school, I was the editor of my school newspaper and I got... ZOE LISTER-JONES I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creat... ZOE KAZAN I've always really been a romantic at heart, and I have always wanted kids, and I think the idea... MONICA LEWINSKY I've always been a writer, I've always been a storyteller, but I never thought about screenw... DIABLO CODY As an adult, I've always tried to be a good person my whole life, so I've made good friends,... ROMAN REIGNS We would always be interested in hearing from someone who feels they have been a victim of any crimi... ELIZABETH DUNN I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing. TAMALA JONES I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people... TYLER PERRY I have always been principally interested in men for sex. I've always thought any sane woman wou... GERMAINE GREER I've been really very fortunate with the men I've been involved with. They've always rea... GLORIA VANDERBILT I've been proud to be a lifelong Chicago Cub and still be with the Cubs. That's always been ... RYNE SANDBERG Versace has always been a brand that I've loved, a brand that has supported me. I've been we... TREY SONGZ I love film. I've always been enchanted by doing film. It's something I grew up watching - c... RAMI MALEK Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay and Al Pacino made me want to act. I've always been interested in m... MARTIN FREEMAN I've been such an oddball my whole life, but I've always been cool and I've always dress... CEELO GREEN I've always been unhappy with my teeth. I've lost most of them from my bottom jaw, and those... KATE O'MARA I've always been a fighter and I've always fought through things my whole life. SERENA WILLIAMS I've always been a fan of issues around race and racialism, and I've loved playing with it. ... TREVOR NOAH I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me. KURT COBAIN I've always been - as a teacher, as graduate student, as a student, and I think, really, as a ch... DAVID FERRY I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always li... CLINT EASTWOOD Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I real... YARA SHAHIDI I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've bee... CHARLIZE THERON I've been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career he... RON SANTO I've always been seen as the underdog in everything I've ever done in my life, and it doesn&... VICTOR ORTIZ I've always been interesting in the lighting aspect and always listened to what they were saying... DEVON SAWA I've always been fascinated by everything with wings. DOLLY PARTON
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ELIZABETH GILBERT Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, an... ELIZABETH GILBERT I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay wit... ELIZABETH GILBERT This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something. ELIZABETH GILBERT Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, bu... ELIZABETH GILBERT There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdictio... ELIZABETH GILBERT Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then they ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk withou... ELIZABETH BOWEN Postmodernism refuses to privilege any one perspective, and recognizes only difference, never inequa... ELIZABETH WILSON People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other... ELIZABETH GASKELL I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions. ELIZABETH TAYLOR Do they know they're old, these two who are my father and my mother whose fire from which I came, ha... ELIZABETH JENNINGS It is strange that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity ... ELIZABETH TAYLOR The good are so harsh to the clever, the clever so rude to the good! ELIZABETH WORDSWORTH He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentili... ELIZABETH GASKELL Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own. ELIZABETH SMART The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening... ELIZABETH HARDWICK He who angers you conquers you. ELIZABETH KENNY When I dream, I am ageless. ELIZABETH COATSWORTH When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ELIZABETH BOWEN