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Quotes About Interest

There were areas of her life about which she cared passionately and which he was indifferent to or simply unaware of.
~ Philip Pullman
She thinks, I'm telling him who I am. He's interested in who I am. That is true, but I am curious about who she is because I want to fuck her.
~ Philip Roth
What one feels when [politicians] loom into view is just an overwhelming lack of interest, the sort of deep disengagement that is often a defense against pain. Against sadness. in fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians make us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about.
~ David Foster Wallace
It's hard to get good answers to why Young Voters are so uninterested in politics. This is probably because it's next to impossible to get someone to think hard about why he's not interested in something. The boredom itself preempts inquiry; the fact of the feeling's enough.
~ David Foster Wallace
This kind of fiction doesn't interest me.
~ David Foster Wallace
If you are profoundly interested in useless opinions and stupid people, may I suggest the purchase of a television?
~ David Gustafson
Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
~ David Hare
the root of the word 'art' means to fit together, and Artisan artists even call their productions works of art, all of which suggests that a thing must be useful to interest an Artisan, immediately useful, concretely useful, otherwise who needs it?
~ Unknown
Romero's stepfather knew something was up when an officer working on a classified Russian dogfight simulation asked him if his stepson was interested in a part-time job.
~ David Kushner
Dullness is the spice of life. Which is why we must always use other spices.
~ David Levithan
I'm persnickety, I confessed. Not, incidentally, to the point of being snarly. But still. Delightful and persnickety are not a common blend. Do you want to know why I never married? The question wasn't at the top of my list, I admitted. The old woman made me meet her eye. Listen to me; I never married because I was easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It is much better to be too easily interested.
~ David Levithan
Rayanne: I think part of him is partly interested in you. Definitely. I mean, he's got other things on his mind. Angela: But that's the part that's so unfair. I have nothing else on my mind. How comes I have to be the one sitting around analyzing him in like microscopic detail, and he gets to be the one with other things on his mind. Rickie: That is deep.
~ David Levithan
Ik wil dat ze kon zien hoe geslagen hij is. De uitdrukking op zijn gezicht, zijn leven staat op instorten. Want dan zou ze misschien beseffen, al het was het maar een fractie van een seconde, dat hoewel de wereld haar niet interesseert, de wereld wel geïnteresseerd is in haar.
~ David Levithan
I never married because I was too easily bored. It's an awful, self-defeating trait to have. It's much better to be too easily interested.
~ David Levithan
One colleague captured the conflict that can ensue by expressing frustration after several years of unhappy dating: "Why am I being pestered by guys I don't care about, but the men I'm genuinely attracted to seem to show little interest in me?" I told her that she is an 8 chasing after 10s but being pursued by 6s. It dawned on her that pursuing men just outside of her mate-value range was the source of her misery.
~ David M. Buss
Over the last decade "shareholder" has been replaced by "stakeholder." I will remind my readers that a stakeholder is an onlooker to a gambling event. The contenders in the wager trust the stakeholder to hold their respective bets (the stakes) and at the contest's conclusion to award them to the winner. The stakeholder is one who, by definition, can have neither interest nor profit in the outcome. I believe no further comment is required.
~ David Mamet
He wanted the assurance from the department that nothing was going wrong underneath. But as long as that was the case, he didn't really want to get into all the detail of how the Job Network was actually running. He was not hands-on. He was generally interested in employment but he was not one of those ministers who run their department.
~ David Marr
One day I'll wish I had a recording of Gretchen that I could play when I start feeling sorry for myself. I don't know that I've ever met a more enthusiastic person. Her key, I think, is that she's never stopped being interested in things. She's never decided that everything reminds her of something else, that everything worthwhile has been crossed off her list.
~ David Sedaris
While the mini-series based upon novels generate a good deal of interest, it's these real-life dramas that tend to draw a larger audience. Why? I chalk it up to five simple words we use in every print or televised promotion. Five words: "Based Upon a True Story." Not made up in the mind of some typist, but true. Some say that truth is stranger than fiction
~ David Sedaris
Mädchen Two never accompanied us to the beach and rarely posed in any of the family photographs. Once her puppyhood was spent, we lost all interest. "We ought to get a dog," we'd sometimes say, completely forgetting that we already had one.
~ David Sedaris
In a roomful of shouting people, the one who whispers becomes interesting.
~ Unknown
Love, dear friends, begins with curiosity.
~ Dawn Powell
The multitude of the curious and the offended descends upon him.
~ Yann Martel
One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally.
~ Zadie Smith