I'm entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they're thinking and who they are and who's hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what's the story, really?
Alice Walker
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES My friends and the people I know understand that I'm going to ask them what they're doing, h... SAM YAGAN Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don't know. I... WAYNE MCGREGOR They're lots of good Americans here in New York who have common sense and who believe in free ma... WENDY E. LONG I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or... ANNIE PARISSE It's weird to have people so interested in your personal life. It's a part of the business t... ANDY SAMBERG One thing that's true of gritty people is they love what they do, and they keep loving what they... ANGELA DUCKWORTH It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as suc... IRVINE WELSH I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's a... DAVID LLOYD People are interested in science, but they don't always know they're interested in science, ... LAWRENCE M. KRAUSS I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they'... A. S. BYATT People know who I am or are fans of 'Chelsea Lately,' and that makes my shows more fun. Peop... FORTUNE FEIMSTER I like a restaurant called Bruci, and there's some really nice people who work there and good fo... PAUL DANO I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because i... KAZUO ISHIGURO I'm fascinated by people in their eighties and nineties. Especially those who are still creating... MORRISSEY I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they... GABRIELLE UNION I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I t... JAZMINE SULLIVAN I really like people who have the gift of the gab. I like characters that are very eloquent, articul... CHRIS EVANS Being a grandparent doesn't interest me whatsoever. Babies are all right if they're your own... ANGELA BOWIE I weave the company into what we laughingly call 'Jack's novel.' I write this novel for ... JACK O'BRIEN I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important t... BEN AFFLECK I'm less interested in how people are following each other and more interested in how they are f... JACK DORSEY The funniest thing is I never understood why actors were so shady about who they're dating. Then... EMILY MEADE The story behind 'Check Point' is what drew me in. The script had a couple of twists that I ... BILL GOLDBERG I'm an old guy. I don't hustle and I don't bustle. So sometimes you're behind, but t... KUMAR PALLANA I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of w... ELLEN DEGENERES I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and mo... DENIS O'HARE This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped.... DORIS LESSING When I'm around black or white people, I'm always in the middle. Especially when I am around... KARYN PARSONS When I was on TV in the '80s, I wasn't thinking, 'There's a 10-year-old kid watching... STEVEN WRIGHT Children used to get bullied at school. Now they go home, and that's where the problem starts - ... JESSIE J Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it... ERIC BROWN I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to t... ERICA JONG I'm not expecting much work in Hollywood, to be honest. People stick to film because they tend t... KIM CATTRALL I get even more nervous singing when everyone's fallen silent, but I really try to communicate t... NAMIE AMURO There's so many people who have never heard of us, but I think what we've learned is you can... TYLER JOSEPH I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much abou... TOM STOPPARD I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives ... HALEY BENNETT In L.A., like, there's a lot of, like, materialism, and, you know, people who think they're ... KREAYSHAWN There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'... LOUIS C. K. I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhou... LAURIEANN GIBSON I'm not one who's big on accolades and all those things. I did my job and I'm proud of w... TROY BROWN I guess people don't think that young girls or young artists have opinions, but I'm so glad ... ALESSIA CARA I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense... CHRISTOPHER GUEST There are the people who read my horror novels - the first two of them - and they found them scary o... DAVID WONG I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing ... JOHN FRUSCIANTE I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who e... DARIUS RUCKER When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatev... JIM GAFFIGAN People can judge me for what I've done. And I think when somebody's out in the public eye, t... HILLARY CLINTON I'm interested in the acting and staging of specific emotions, and so I work with actors. It'... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their ow... LADY GAGA I like a lot of independent brands - Melbourne's Kloke, Handsom and Neuw Denim, and Bassike in S... CHET FAKER I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I&... EDDIE MARSAN It's an honor to have people follow you and watch you. I do get a lot of fan mail and I read eve... HELENA MATTSSON I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to th... ADRIAN EDMONDSON It's important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of direc... XAVIER DOLAN I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more intere... M. JOHN HARRISON I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and... DAVID SMALL Most people who end up being successful have good grades, but it's orthogonal - there's no e... GABE NEWELL Of course I want to have a deliciously seductive story on the surface which will keep people engaged... DEBORAH EISENBERG With music, there's a conversation happening. You're hearing what's going on right now, ... JIM DRAIN I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just tha... CHANCE THE RAPPER My homies in Gadsden aren't as exposed as I am culturally, which is awesome - that's why I l... YELAWOLF I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it's like they're in the desert with no... BEN SILBERMANN What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because ... AL JARREAU I would love to make my entire career as the guy who did not get cheered. Of course, I'm still g... DOLPH ZIGGLER You can't make anything without making mistakes, do you know what I mean? Robert De Niro's i... JAMES CORDEN In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes p... CARICE VAN HOUTEN That's what happens in Hollywood. People are like, 'I want to hate you, because everyone els... EVANGELINE LILLY I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for work... LARRY CRAIG I would never advise anyone to stay in the closet to further their careers - I'm sure it leads t... BEN DANIELS It's fascinating that people, there's so many people now who will make judgments based on wh... CLARENCE THOMAS But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than sa... DAMIEN HIRST What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they ... TED SHACKELFORD I'm blessed to have a dad who's always there for me and a mom who's always there for me,... TIFFANY TRUMP I'm not really a strange person or anything, so if there's music I like, usually there's... BEN FOLDS I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smell... ORNETTE COLEMAN There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, ... LOUIS C. K. I think there's a danger in how we can get addicted to the things that reaffirm to us who we are... CARRIE COON I think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obvio... SACHA BARON COHEN There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really pecu... ZADIE SMITH Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely ... JO BRAND Things come in waves, and I'm always more interested in places like, for instance, Chicago, wher... MIKE NICHOLS People who pigeonhole us for our queerness are not people I'm interested in knowing. They're... BEN HOPKINS It's always better to shock people and change people's expectations than to give them exactl... JONAH HILL I'm in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they're great musicians and pe... KID ROCK Writing by myself, I spread that out more. I'll spend more time on a song then. I'm more cri... HUNTER HAYES Character roles only indicate that they're very different from who you are as a person, and for ... MARK HAMILL There aren't a lot of female story artists, and it's baffling to me. There are a lot of kids... JENNIFER YUH NELSON I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it. CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ... MALCOLM GLADWELL People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are... JOHN LASSETER There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I ... JARED PADALECKI I've seen people glaze over when they're confronted with racism, and there's nothing mor... KARA WALKER It was never the fame or fortune that drove me to act. It was something I love and enjoy doing it. A... ADAM BALDWIN And that's what I really love, is finding a script and fantasizing and going to a different worl... ALEX PETTYFER There are two kinds of people in crisis situations - those who fight and those who freeze. I'm a... COBIE SMULDERS I've said this before, and I'm sure there are people who disagree, but I feel like one of th... AISHA TYLER I'm not interested in being famous. I'm interested in doing my job and doing it well, and th... AJ LEE
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ALICE WALKER Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre... ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co... ALICE WALKER The more I wonder, the more I love. ALICE WALKER Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He ... ALICE WALKER Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly. ALICE WALKER A grown child is a dangerous thing. ALICE WALKER People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always ... ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my c... ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co... ALICE WALKER Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved. ALICE WALKER And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some people... ALICE WALKER A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is th... ALICE WALKER Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the up... ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight... But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house... I loves Harpo... ALICE WALKER I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- those who wantonly dama... ALICE WALKER The longer I am a writer--so long now that my writing finger is periodically numb--the better I unde... ALICE WALKER Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve. ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date. ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way. ALICE WATERS When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit... ALICE OSWALD After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to... ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to... ALICE DREGER