Interesting Quotes - Page 102

The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

Thoughts come and go. It's impossible to stop your thoughts, but the idea is that the thoughts are kind of like waves on the ocean. That's Jon Kabat-Zinn's big analogy and that this is actually kind of diving under the waves. And you know it's kind of interesting.

Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.

Ours is the commencement of a flying age, and I am happy to have popped into existence at a period so interesting.

One of the advantages of being an older woman in films,is that you don't care as much about so many things. There are women in history throughout the world that need to be portrayed. Women don't stop being interesting at 20, they get more interesting and more fascinating and people are going to have to write about them. We're undeniable.

A whole album to one writer - now that would be really interesting.

I'm always looking for a chance to play somebody who's completely opposite of me, just because I find it more interesting.

The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.

It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.

I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.

Anybody who cares less about wanting to be cool, I think, is more interesting.

Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.

I love telling stories. I think of myself as a storyteller, and I don't feel bound by being just a singer or an actress. First, I'm a storyteller, and history is stories - the most compelling stories. There is a lot you can find out about yourself through knowing about history. I have always been attracted to things that are old. I have just always found such things interesting and compelling.

There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.

It's interesting, because as a musician, I don't feel like I need to be on the top of the pop charts.

There aren't a lot of movies being made about women, period. Most of the time, the roles that are available are the sidekick, the friend, the girlfriend or the wife, and they just aren't that interesting.

On a personal level, just for me in my own work, I would say the most interesting thing has been getting to work with the people that I've worked with.

Sometimes my mistakes turn into interesting music because I do things that aren't supposed to be done.

I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.

I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don't think it's so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don't want to do that.

People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

I guess for me - in the TV commercial world I was known for shooting locations, beautiful landscapes and things like that - so, it's interesting.

There was this interesting quote: try and live your life without fear and desire. It's this concept that's like when you look at a painting in a museum and you are held in aesthetic arrest. So the I, the ego, is stripped, is gone. The observer and thing become one. That's where fear and desire come in because you don't want to own it, possess it, desire it, and it's not moving you to fear. It's like you're in this harmonious state with the object.

I also feel like the kinds of jobs I want right now - I consider them aspirational. I want to raise the bar for myself, and I am in this interesting spot where I do get offered a lot of things, but frankly, the majority of the things I get offered I'm not really interested in doing. I want to do the things that I have to fight for.

You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.