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Quotes About Interest

I am very interested in female characters and bringing a new perspective to mediums where not necessarily that's been valued at all.
~ Noelle Stevenson
You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.
~ Clint Eastwood
My father said it was a delightfully odd - and dangerously self-destructive - quirk of humans that we were far more interested in pointless trivia then in genuine news stories.
~ Jasper Fforde
No one would argue that we owe a debt of gratitude to the Goliath Corporation. They helped us to rebuild after the Second War and it should not be forgotten. Of late, however, it seems as though the Goliath Corporation is falling far short of its promises of fairness and altruism. We are finding ourselves now in the unfortunate position of continuing to pay back a debt that has long since been paid--with interest...
~ Jasper Fforde
I'm always surprised that you all don't take more interest in other creatures. It's like living on a street and not knowing your next-door neighbor. If I were human, I'd start investing in a little kindness. When the arthropods rule the planet, all those lobster dishes and crab sticks could well be a cause of some regret.
~ Jasper Fforde
Aside from the Parker Brothers' celebrated geochromatic view of the Previous World, it was the only pre-Epiphanic map known. But somehow its rarity wasn't enough to make it interesting, and we stared blankly for some minutes at the faded parchment, hoping to either misunderstand it on a deeper level or at least get our money's worth.
~ Jasper Fforde
One final note from the world of fiction: You'll be more believable if you're not perfect. A useful flaw in your character makes you more interesting and gives you a hook so that you penetrate deeply into the minds of your marketplace. The marketplace then sees you as human and real. By
~ Jay Abraham
visitors to your site still want to read about themselves more than about you.
~ Jay Conrad Levinson
He smiled. Thought you said you weren't a romantic. I'm not. She turned another page. Doesn't mean I don't like to read about romance.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
Marilynne Eichinger's book will bring added interest to museums and what they can offer now and in the future.
~ Jean Auel
En ocasiones las mujeres que no son perfectas resultan más interesantes; han hecho más o han aprendido algo.
~ Jean M. Auel
Xeno couldn't manage too much nearness. He was solitary and introverted, with an enthusiasm that people mistook for sociability. He was interested in everything, attentive to people, genuinely kind, and entirely present when he was present. But he was never sorry to close the door at night or to be alone.
~ Jeanette Winterson
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Even if philosophers were in a position to discover truth, who among them would be interested in it? Each knows well that his system is not better founded than the others; but he supports it because it is his.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Les gens qui passent exactement la vie entière à travailler pour vivre n'ont d'autre idée que celle de leur travail ou de leur intérêt, et tout leur esprit semble être au bout de leurs bras.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
İnançlar?na egemen olan gereksinimleri, ÅŸuna ya da buna inand?rmaktaki ç?karlar?, kendilerinin neye inand?klar?n? öÄŸrenmeye engel oluyor.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This very fact that crowds possess in common ordinary qualities explains why they can never accomplish acts demanding a high degree of intelligence. The decisions affecting matters of general interest come to by an assembly of men of distinction, but specialists in different walks of life, are not sensibly superior to the decisions that would be adopted by a gathering of imbeciles.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Finally, when the State close to ruin subsists only on an illusory and vain form, when the social bond is broken in all hearts, when the barest interest brazenly assumes the sacred name of public good; then the general will grows mute, everyone, prompted by secret motives, no more states opinions as a Citizen than if the State had never existed, and iniquitous decrees with no other goal than particular interest are falsely passed under the name of Laws.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The existent individual, as Kierkegaard defines him, is first of all he who is in an infinite relationship with himself and has an infinite interest in himself and his destiny. Secondly, the existent individual always feels himself to be in Becoming, with a task before him;
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
It's important to me if I'm having a good time than I feel like the work is better. The quality of it is better and my level of interest is higher.
~ Martha Plimpton
Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.
~ William Lyon Phelps
Whatever work he does, beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance, can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.
~ Adam Smith
Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.
~ T. S. Eliot
I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has to say. Or what she or he looks like, instead of what she or he does.
~ Candida Hofer