America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.
The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.
But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism.
I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years.
I suppose one of the things that interest me about acting is unpicking what makes people tick and why they do what they do and what it means to be human.
My interest in economics has always been in the whole corpus of economic theory, the interrelationships between the various fields of theory and their relevance for the formulation of economic policy.
I was never the girl who yearned for children. I pretended to be interested in other people's kids, but that was obviously just an act.
That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.
I've always been interested in socially political, or overtly political, comedy. And I guess I've always liked to channel some kind of personal element to that.
Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.
When suddenly everybody is guessing, or some even getting close, to the ballpark of what you're earning - well, that's interesting, that everyone knows what you make.
I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.
I'm interested in the gene bank of how Americans have built in different regions in different times.
I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.
They said that Seven was a former Borg who had been human and had been assimilated. She was regaining her humanity. I had no interest in this character.
In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community.
If all you have to offer is a look that is supposed to be appealing, the you are going to be paid attention to about a tenth as long as you would be if when you speak you are interesting.
The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.
The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.