Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that.
I have always been vitally interested in physical conditioning. I have long believed that athletic competition among people and nations should replace violence and wars.
In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.
Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all.
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead.
When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.
I'm so lucky to have worked with Burt Lancaster, who I remember was one of the first people I'd heard swearing in a really interesting way.
People have asked me about playing outsiders. I don't consider myself an outsider. Maybe that's why I'm interested in that. I'm not really sure.
I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart.
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.
I didn't go out looking for negative characters; I went out looking for people who have a struggle and a fight to tackle. That's what interests me.
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
Don't resist the urge to burn down the stronghold, kill off the main love interest or otherwise foul up the lives of your characters.
It's interesting, because I've worked with people who are just not nice people, and I've worked with people who are crazy, and the difference is: crazy is much worse.
