My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators.
Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.
A cash advance on a credit card is one of the worst types of borrowing because the interest rate is typically 21 percent or more.
If there's some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I've gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free.
The more you think about and interact with other people, the more you realize that it is untenable to privilege your interests over theirs.
But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.
I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
There's lots of interesting jobs in the profession besides acting, and I like to try and keep an eye on and understand other people's jobs, rather than just my own.
I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.
An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.
To me, football is very personal. Even as a kid, I looked at football in dramaturgical terms. It wasn't the score that interested me, it was the struggle.
My mother listened to everything I said, carefully - not that what I said was particularly interesting, but I was her daughter.
I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance.
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.
Speaking generally, people who are drawn to journalism are interested in what happens from the ground up less than they are from the top down.
Anything one can do to provoke and inspire an interest in the works of Shakespeare in a young audience is fair game. Anything.
My interests and obsessions have always been so wide-ranging that I keep popping my head out of different boxes as much as possible.
I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.
There is another thing about a kid, if we all remember, that you have an attraction to evil. Evil is exciting and evil is interesting, and plenty of kids have a fascination for it.
There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.
