FastSaying

It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.


Randa Haines

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.
NOEL GALLAGHER I'm very enthused about everything. I have a lot to say and a lot of things I'm interested i...
DARYL HALL Advances don't fundamentally interest me. It sounds terribly naive, but money doesn't really...
UPAMANYU CHATTERJEE It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making...
ALICE OSWALD I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth...
DANIEL CRAIG I'm so not interested in gossip. It just gives me the creeps. I love the work; I love what I do....
FRANCISCO COSTA It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I ne...
MARY MCDONNELL I've got my foot in 'Saturday Night Live,' and my heart is there in a lot of ways, but I...
PAULA PELL I never really thought of myself as a musician. I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art ...
KIM GORDON I'm not a dogmatic, purist psychopath. There's an unfair image of me - mean, crazy, hostile....
MICHAEL HEIZER I'm sure there are some commercial applications for Twitter, but they don't really interest ...
BARRY DILLER It's just a way of trying to get to a third thing that's not particular to any quote-unquote...
CHARLIE HUNTER It's not really that I'm interested in filmmaking. I'm interested in the instrument of i...
K'NAAN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it&#...
RAF SIMONS I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak an...
TAVI GEVINSON I'm really not interested in acting as a facade, I'm interested in it as an emotional expres...
BRIE LARSON What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my w...
JANE WIEDLIN I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there'...
MARY ELLEN MARK I like doing the editorial stuff because it's nice to do something that's more me. But model...
DYLAN PENN Just because you're working does not mean you're making money. That's two very different...
BILLY PORTER I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or s...
ROBERT PINSKY Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'...
DAMIAN MARLEY I'm really interested in social justice, and if an artist has a certain power of being heard and...
SHIRIN NESHAT But it's a blessing to be so successful within a year; it's the greatest feeling in the worl...
LUDACRIS I'm tactile, very tactile. A woman who has really nice, looked-after skin is such a turn-on for ...
IDRIS ELBA If death is in the room, it's pretty interesting. But I would also say that I'm interested i...
GEORGE SAUNDERS It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right pro...
ZAC EFRON I'm still really interested in acting, I love film so much. It's definitely something I'...
OLIVIA CULPO But I want people to understand that poker's not all glamorous, it's not all being on TV and...
CHRIS MONEYMAKER If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not ...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON I'm interested in full disclosure for people who give money to politicians. But I'm not a po...
CAMPBELL BROWN For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. ...
ZARA LARSSON I'm not a huge scary movie kind of guy; like, I don't do slasher movies, because I'm rea...
BRENDAN ROBINSON I'm not a hermit, but I definitely stay in a lot more than I used to. There's more attention...
DEREK JETER How did I feel as a guy who was making a movie about a single mom who's a crackhead? That - I wa...
BARRY JENKINS A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD I'm interested in movement, and I'm interested in money, and I'm interested in the movem...
CONOR MCGREGOR If you think about making a difference in the community, my family has always had a strong interest ...
PAUL ALLEN With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is ...
ALEXANDRA SHIPP I mean, I'll say the filthiest things in the world, but when it comes down to it, I'm kind o...
ANDY RICHTER It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about ...
BETH DITTO We like to crystallize something in the audience's brain that makes them say, 'Hey I really ...
GARY GOETZMAN Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I fi...
NATHAN FILLION I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the...
DANIEL GILBERT The Wall Street Dow Jones up and down thing that's moving when the stock market's open? That...
ERIC CHURCH It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just no...
FKA TWIGS There's not enough money in the world to get me singing 'Because We Want To' again. I wo...
BILLIE PIPER I'm a blunt person, not mean-spirited. I come from a place of love, but I'm interested in be...
TRACY MCMILLAN Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's makin...
LAURA MVULA I think there's little things you can do with a dermatologist that can stave off major, giant su...
CHRISTIE BRINKLEY A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as...
JIMMY DEAN I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many yea...
MATT DAMON But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, w...
BJORK It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON When push comes to shove, I'm a fighter, and I'm going to force someone to fight. It takes a...
ROBBIE LAWLER If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a ...
ALBER ELBAZ I'm interested in creating a little sound world for songs, really crafting it, building it, and ...
IMOGEN HEAP A bad outfit can really get me down. If I'm wearing something really normal and boring, it's...
ALEXA CHUNG That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gende...
ALISON BECHDEL Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a ...
MEG ROSOFF I turn over a lot of money for a lot of people and I'm the smallest fish in it.
MICHAEL HUTCHENCE I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that...
LANCE REDDICK If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of diff...
MICHAEL P. ANDERSON I really loved making 'A Walk to Remember', so I'm not afraid of making smaller films. B...
ADAM SHANKMAN I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've bee...
CHARLIZE THERON I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in d...
SARAH JESSICA PARKER There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum,...
EDDIE REDMAYNE Films that score very high with test audiences generally tend to not be so great. But, there's a...
ANDREW DOMINIK If someone's intimidated by me, that's something they have to deal with. When I walk down th...
VING RHAMES When I'm auditioning for something, if it's not me, I really hope the part doesn't go to...
RACHEL KELLER It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It ti...
GARY LINEKER When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. ...
GAD ELMALEH It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about somet...
AVRIL LAVIGNE For me, I can't watch violence when it's too grotesque, and it's just like, that's r...
AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER I'm a prize fighter. Titles don't pay bills. I fight for money. I'm making money. They&#...
BROCK LESNAR 'La Lupe' is my passion project. I've done it as a one-woman show, but I'm raising m...
LAUREN VELEZ It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me ...
JONATHAN IVE I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me w...
BRUCE CAMPBELL I'm so not scary. I'm a pussycat. But what are you going to do, right? I mean, these cheekbo...
KIM COATES I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's ne...
FORTUNE FEIMSTER It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm maki...
JIM CARREY It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in...
FKA TWIGS I don't believe in being mean to anyone. I'm a really peaceful person. That's something ...
NICK CARTER I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to...
VERUSCHKA VON LEHNDORFF Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters ...
RANDA HAINES I consider myself something of a self-taught anthropologist. I try not to talk about something unles...
REGGIE WATTS To be in 'Vogue' has to mean something. It's an endorsement. It's a validation.
ANNA WINTOUR But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for ...
LAURA BUSH I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibi...
CALLIE KHOURI

More Randa Haines

I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
RANDA HAINES To adapt a play into a movie, you have to change it.
RANDA HAINES A barrier for me - which has been both a strength and a weakness - has been my taste. The kind of th...
RANDA HAINES There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These...
RANDA HAINES I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by thei...
RANDA HAINES As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily ...
RANDA HAINES I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film wi...
RANDA HAINES If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relatio...
RANDA HAINES I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to...
RANDA HAINES Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters ...
RANDA HAINES I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
RANDA HAINES A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
RANDA HAINES We still need community support. We want out-of-towners to see that everyone is involved in this.
BEN HAINES That will be a great event with a well-known act coming through the area.
BEN HAINES He's a war hero, and we really wanted a hometown guy to be our parade marshal.
BEN HAINES We want this to be the biggest parade since 1956 and give the community a great celebration.
BEN HAINES The bicentennial is now here. We're gearing up for it.
BEN HAINES With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation.
EDISON HAINES It was like a ghost town. No one made any noises.
JORDAN HAINES She did something that many people wouldn't do. I'm really proud of her.
ARNETT HAINES Right now, I'm a little upset. I'd really like to talk to you more, but...
ARNETT HAINES The C-130J is redefining tactical airlift with overwhelming performance in a variety of mission scen...
DAVID HAINES It began as a small beautification project. We installed potted flowers. Then the businesses jumped ...
CHARLOTTE HAINES It was a mildly disappointing quarter. Operating earnings missed the analysts' target and the proper...
ROB HAINES [Epitaph]Here's something I want to get off my chest.
WILLIAM HAINES I don't expect the Wachovia (joint venture) to be a big headache going forward. It's not a cheap sto...
ROB HAINES She's a lucky girl. She's going to live, so far.
ARNETT HAINES Forest Gump had it wrong. Life is not a box of chocolate; it's a kaleidoscope. In the flip of a wris...
CAROLYN HAINES It depends on the issue. If it's something people care about, then they come out to the meetings in ...
CHARLOTTE HAINES When I moved in, the neighborhood was small, but busy. But like many areas do, we went through a bit...
CHARLOTTE HAINES After we lost those two games coach made a point that we had to dominate in the third period if we w...
CASEY HAINES I was quite scared,
STEPHEN HAINES Now, a reoccurring theme is that there was a chip on the shoulder of some of the administration. If ...
DENNIS HAINES For example, Lockheed Martin has been working with the Ogden center since June of this year to prepa...
DENNIS HAINES I've always written [music]. I've always played the piano. And until recently-- with Metric being a ...
EMILY HAINES Creatively, it's just fun, to get together with people that I would otherwise be drinking beer with,...
EMILY HAINES Who knows the psychology? But I do know that they're very particular about who they have, and I know...
EMILY HAINES The ideal is one case per CASA. ... We desperately need more volunteers.
CONNIE HAINES We try to take the highest risk cases.
CONNIE HAINES We have people from all walks of life.
CONNIE HAINES Despite the Board's failure to approve the budget, management will continue to operate within the pa...
DAVID HAINES A lot of people like to come to Georgetown to view all the fall colors.
GARY HAINES Obviously, the savings vary depending on the home's location, as well as its construction type, its ...
JAY HAINES A dark-colored home absorbs as much as 90 percent of the solar radiation that strikes it, and even w...
JAY HAINES It'd be great [to win], not only for morale but just rankings-wise and for other people to see that ...
HOLLEE HAINES It's amazing being part of something -- making history -- especially for this team. I think we can g...
HOLLEE HAINES The pitchers were happy. People were cold, too, so they wanted to get out of there.
HOLLEE HAINES I just hit it out of there. I didn't want to touch it.
LINDSEY HAINES I hit a goose once. It was flying across the green. The ball dropped right there and the goose kept ...
LINDSEY HAINES And that's all he had time to get.
LISA HAINES When a man wants to have an alehouse meltdown, the worst thing you can do is stand in his way
LUKE HAINES Before I decided what field I wanted to go into, I wanted to teach college.
MICHAEL HAINES The big question Allstate will need to answer in its conference call tomorrow is how much of the ris...
ROB HAINES The Pirates have now started to mix in some veteran guys along the way, which I think is so importan...
JOE RANDA It may be easier for them to reach what we call functional proficiency.
RANDA DUVICK We had him. We talked about it on the mound -- 'The grass is slow here, so hop off' -- and he did. H...
JOE RANDA Believe me, there's no sense of complacency in here at all. We're going out and giving it everything...
JOE RANDA Everybody's at the point now where they're getting mad,
JOE RANDA I didn't get drafted my senior year, ... I got offered a contract by the Brewers for $1,500 from Sal...
JOE RANDA I went to [Kettle-Moraine High School], 20 miles outside the city [in Wales, Wis.], and I've stayed ...
JOE RANDA My two older sisters and their families live here,
JOE RANDA I think every situation is unique. You can get along great, but if you go out on the field and don't...
JOE RANDA Chemistry is important, but it can mean a lot of different things.
JOE RANDA I think there's a lot of hidden agendas there. With the revenue sharing and all the money he's getti...
JOE RANDA To go up against the guys we've faced lately and hold our own, that's not too bad. We've gone throug...
JOE RANDA A lot of things are unexplainable.
JOE RANDA We can't complain and whine about where we're at. We've got to go forward.
JOE RANDA I think the biggest problem in any school for any program, no matter how wonderful it is, is funding...
RANDA DUVICK From every book invisible threads reach out to other books; and as the mind comes to use and control...
HELEN E. HAINES Feast of Barnabas the Apostle It is obvious ... that there are many lay people who can counsel mor...
HOWARD B. HAINES I own a crevice stuffed with moss
and a couch of lemming fur;
I sit and listen to the musi...
JOHN MEADE HAINES When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is ...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read &...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to w...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH When it comes to the hijab - why to wear it, whether to wear it, how to wear it - there is theology ...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, ...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories.
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH Spirituality is deeply personal. Yet, society has to face the fact that certain faiths celebrate spi...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag s...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and thin...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relatio...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character en...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through per...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH A woman's body is her body and what she wears or does not wear is her choice. Get over it and mo...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignoranc...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday ...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a ...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH It seems Palestinians can't win. The language of peace negotiations has always been predicated o...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, at...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress m...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH Too many people look at it as though it (the hijab) has bizarre powers sewn into its microfibers. Po...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH You? Nervous? Man, you've got more balls than any girl I've ever known!'

'You've known s...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH I just don't know what I'd do without a brain, Simone!" I say. "I mean, what's a person without one?
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to gi...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH But persistent name calling? that prolongs hurt. It stretches out. Each nasty word stretches the rub...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH That's why when Peter started talking to me in homeroom this morning, i soaked up his attention like...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH