Quotes of: Interesting-person Keyword

One person with a belief is worth 99 people who have only interests.

John Stuart Mill

But for me, personally, I didn't have any ambitions to become an actor. I'm interested in getting behind the camera.

Danny McBride

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Doris Lessing

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

Ambrose Bierce

You don't want your personality to eclipse your work because no one would be interested in seeing your work anymore.

Amy Landecker

I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark.

Carter Burwell

The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is.

James Gray

To practice tantra requires even greater compassion and greater intelligence than are required on the sutra path; thus, though many persons in the degenerate era are interested in tantra, tantra is not for degenerate persons. Tantra is limited to per...

Meditation on Emptiness

One is not loved accidentally; one’s own power to love produces love - just as being interested makes one interesting. People are concerned with the question of whether they are attractive while they forget that the essence of attractiveness is the...

Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics

So from now on, screw "perfect." Forget for a while about what kind of person you want to be, and just be the best version of the person you are. Figure out which of your classmates you genuinely like (not who you want to like you), and get to know t...

Kat Rosenfield

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.

Rowan Williams

I'm not sure I would make a direct connection between having press attention as a young person and being interested in the media as an older person. I came to it more organically, coming from a family of Irish Catholic storytellers. Storytelling is a...

Rory Kennedy

Now Dave Eggers, if you lived in San Francisco, is not an easy person to be done with. Everyone - and by everyone, I mean every white person with a college education and an interest in books - wants a piece of him. It's not just his amazingly powerfu...

James Bernard Frost

One of the interesting things about Twitter is looking how famous people choose to use it. Take someone like Steve Martin, who I follow: it's all sorts of comic gems, nothing private, nothing personal - all jokes. Other celebrities are overtly person...

Rob Lowe

Being in a successful marriage is no different than being cast in a successful movie. It's all about who you pick; in that first moment, did you pick the right person? I think you need to pick somebody who's more interested in being married than in g...

Rob Lowe

A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.

Henry Moore

I think insomnia is a sign that a person is interesting.

Notes to Self

I don't consider myself a very interesting person. I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

Paul Giamatti

Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person.

Marilyn vos Savant

I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.

Ira Sachs

I'm interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

Louis Garrel