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I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing. -- Lillie Langtry
Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music. -- Carter Burwell
My father was adamant in his disapproval of my interest in show business. -- Paul Lynde
It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases. -- Alice Hamilton
You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years. -- Derek Jeter
My process of being inspired is very intuitive. Im constantly following my interest. -- Jeff Koons
What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program. -- Ronald D. Moore
I watch sports and cable news. I'm a political junkie, so that's my interest. -- Jerry Springer
Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie. -- William Landay
I guess my interest in performance has evolved and changed many times over the years. -- Allison Tolman
Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter. -- Evan Osnos
I went to Princeton from Amherst, where I split my interests between mathematics and philosophy. -- Stephen Cole Kleene
I have an excuse to show off my love of history, and my interest in cosmology. -- Fred Van Lente
It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest. -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If there is a connection between Harry Potter and my new novel, it's my interest in characters. -- J. K. Rowling
If the project piques my interest and scares me a little bit, then it's got me hooked. -- Ray Stevenson
I want to find material that piques my interest, keeps me outside the box and challenges me. -- Kyle Chandler
I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest. -- Robert T. Bakker
By the time I entered this prestigious high school, my interest in formal education had already been exhausted. -- Lewis Schiff
I think my interest gets sparked when I recognize a memory. That is when I take a picture. -- Alex Majoli
If I can find something that I haven't done before, then that is an immediate...it peaks my interest. -- Karl Urban
While I've worked on many topics and written many books, I have not abandoned my interest in multiple intelligences. -- Howard Gardner
Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals. -- J. M. Coetzee
The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy. -- Joseph Stiglitz
As long as I can remember, I've always loved to draw. But my interest in drawing wasn't encouraged very much. -- Chris Van Allsburg
My passion for innovation and my interest in the 'business of science' has seen Biocon commercialize many innovative platforms and products. -- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Usually my ideas for work have revolved around my interest in people, especially people that live on the edges of society. -- Mary Ellen Mark
My passion for snacking and search for a great tasting, better-for-you snack sparked my interest in creating what has become popchips. -- Keith Belling
As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing. -- Park Chan-wook
For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France. -- Jeff Lindsay
At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society. -- Helen Garner
I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors. -- Yuri Milner
I knew that my interest lied in international stories. I was interested in how women were living under the Taliban, for example. -- Lynsey Addario
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island. -- Nicolas Cage
And my interest in history was, and remains, very strong: what I wanted was to understand certain things better by understanding them psychoanalytically. -- Peter Gay
If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that. -- Joshua Lederberg
I never did anything else. In college I switched majors every two weeks, and acting was the only thing that held my interest. -- James Caan
Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own. -- Peter Jennings
Whether the Virgin Mary existed, I don't know. But the human need for her to appear in tortilla, that's what inspires my interest. -- Moby
While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection. -- Amartya Sen
The biggest regret of my whole football career was leaving White Hart Lane in 1970.....my interest in football weakened after that. I was heartbroken -- Jimmy Greaves
It definitely sharpened my interest in language, the way people used language, slang words, speech patterns. There's a big advantage to being the outsider. -- Amy Heckerling
I really don't care much about baseball, or looking at ball games, major or minor. All my interest in baseball is in its statistics. -- Ernest Lanigan
I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue. -- Alec Baldwin
It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down. -- Hunter S. Thompson
It's in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein. -- Seneca the Younger
I think always my interest in making movies is to have something really technical mixed with something that was not so formal...something free. -- Michel Gondry
When I was growing up, my stepmother's sister was the chief detective in one of the adjoining towns, so she piqued my interest in crime. -- Karin Slaughter
If there is a simple, easy principle that binds everything I have done together, it is my interest in people and their relationship to things. -- Bill Moggridge
I have always served the public to the best of my ability. Why? Because, like every other man, it is to my interest to do so. -- Cornelius Vanderbilt
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture. -- Sam Taylor-Johnson
I think the thing that I always try to do - because it piques my interest - is to play really different parts all the time. -- Christina Ricci
While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork. -- Greg Graffin
Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University. -- Harold E. Varmus
Ironically I think this is what sparked my interest in and passion for the NOAH, which is capable of creating all these old weird and wonderful sounds. -- Geoff Downes
At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science. -- Deborah Bull
REDEF is dedicated to my mother, who nurtured and encouraged my interest in everything and slightly regrets the day she taught me to always ask 'why?' -- Jason Hirschhorn
I think that my interest as a creator always comes first, so I'm wondering things like "Just how free is this world?" and "Where are the boundaries?" -- Hidetaka Suehiro
I follow my interests pretty - I don't like the word 'intuitively.' I follow them in a kind of natural way, without questioning them too much. -- Lydia Davis
There were a series of moments when I decided that art was important, and it was an important vehicle for me to express my interest in spaces. -- Theaster Gates
For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here... -- Carlos Castaneda
I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere. -- Joe Dante
I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain. -- Iain McGilchrist
Filmmaking became a possible way for me to combine my interest in photography and in gathering stories, as well as my interest in journalism and political science and international relations. -- Joshua Marston
For me as an artist, the expansiveness of my interests and my influences make me enigmatic. I think any man can be that way - if you love enough interesting things. -- CeeLo Green
While at Chicago my interest in the new field of particle physics was stimulated by a course given by Gell- Mann, who was developing his ideas about Strangeness at the time. -- James Cronin
I like being a cog in a wheel. I like being a small aspect of a much bigger thing, and I think my interest in that takes the pressure of myself. -- Charlize Theron
I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals. -- Mark Twain
I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical. -- Barbara Feldon
They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me. -- Laura Prepon
I've always been a rocker. Like ever since I was really young. I had a crush on the Green Day guys. That's always been what I was like and been my interest. -- Ashlee Simpson
I work on the boundary between economics and statistics in this field called econometrics. Part of my interest is understanding how you use statistics in productive ways to analyze dynamic economic models. -- Lars Peter Hansen
Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I've always attributed this to my particular sensibilities. I like formality and elegance, and I'm fundamentally conservative. -- Laurie Graham
God created animals. And they're loving; they're beautiful. I feel the way (anthropologist) Jane Goodall does or any of those naturalists. I don't find my interest in animals weird or strange at all. -- Michael Jackson
I just reached the point where plot-driven novels don't hold my interest because I don't care about the fate of characters anymore - whether Emily marries Tom or not, that kind of thing. -- Billy Collins
In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day. -- Robert B. Laughlin
I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family. -- Bill Bryson
That's the most difficult issue for me... to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject. -- Leonard Nimoy
I've spent a lot of time researching the subject and government deception. So to be involved in Star Trek is perfect for me. I enjoy meeting the fans and discussing my interests with them. -- Dwight Schultz
In fact, it's in my interest to love digital recording, and I just spent a ton on a new digital recording system, so I speak from a place of heavy investment in both sides. -- John Vanderslice
In 1955, I got my degree in electrical-mechanical engineering. I realised, however, that my interest was less in practical applications than in the understanding of the underlying theoretical structure, and I decided to learn physics. -- Francois Englert
I was being groomed as an undergraduate to specialize in Midwestern prehistory, but going back to my teenage days, my interest has always been in our early human ancestors. I wanted to work in Africa. -- Donald Johanson
That's the most difficult issue for me - to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject -- Leonard Nimoy
Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing. -- Ally Carter
I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane some of my interests that there are people out there who are interested too. -- Sara Sheridan
All my interesting stories are from before I was on television. Nothing interesting has happened to me since then. Maybe it's because the most interesting thing in my life is the show and that's on telly. -- Graham Norton
Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it? -- Irving Stone
I got a job with a law firm in Portland after a couple of years with Senator Muskie. But by then, my interest in politics had been sparked, through meeting Senator Muskie, through seeing what he did. -- George J. Mitchell
That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent. -- George Stigler
I must keep on trying, just to keep the experiment going until I get tired of it all. Even if the last result is not necessarily the best, I stop when my interest in the problem wanes. -- Pablo Picasso
I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad. -- Marianne Faithfull
So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little different -- Bill Sienkiewicz
I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household and I wouldn't say so much it's informed my views, but it's informed my interest, so I think as a child I was often very baffled by knowledge claims. -- Rebecca Goldstein
I would say the connection between art and science is very tenuous for me. It's just that I'm interested in both. I don't think that my interest in art affects the kind of science that I do. -- Janna Levin
Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest. -- Aimee Bender
Of course, my interests and my focus change and become more diverse, more worldly. At the same time, I am interested in the simple basics, which is I love to dance and I love to make people dance. -- Madonna Ciccone
It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified. -- Barbra Streisand
I'm really interested with the way light plays on images and one of the artists that really reawakened my interest in comic books was Frank Miller and his treatment of Daredevil, and then Wolverine and, of course, Batman. -- James Marsters
I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things. -- Sean Penn
Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I technically live in the desert - Los Angeles being an artificial oasis - but my interest stems even farther to my own ethnic roots and to my love of antiquity, of the Old World and of the east. -- Vera Nazarian
I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy. -- Paul Nurse
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies. -- Christa McAuliffe
With the words, a lot of things start with questions. Some word kind of piques my interest, and I love the way it sounds, but I really don't know what it means. And I honestly don't care for a while. -- Andrew Bird
I think the inception of my interest in arts was when I was around 9 or 10 and I started dancing. I was really convinced that I was going to go to New York and be onstage in 'A Chorus Line.' -- Robin Wright
My interest in well-being evolved from my interest in decision making - from raising the question of whether people know what they will want in the future and whether the things that people want for themselves will make them happy. -- Daniel Kahneman
I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over the years. That's what the ancient Greeks first saw and that's what caught my interest. -- LeRoy Neiman
It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness. -- Gretchen Rubin
Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks. -- Andre Agassi
With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie. -- Harold Ramis
I first came to Russia because of the culture, literature and music... and my interest in the 19th-century revolutionary spirit of Herzen, Bakunin and Kropotkin. Russia is a wonderful place to bring new clowns because Russians give back a wonderful response. -- Patch Adams
Then, the other thing that affected my interest in choices growing up was the fact that I was going blind and that meant that there were lots of questions that constantly kept arising about how much choices I actually could have. -- Sheena Iyengar
I've had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition, sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes just because I hated everyone in my old career or they hated me. -- James Altucher
I have an organization called BLIND [Beautiful Love Incorporated Nonprofit Development], so named because even though my interest is in the black community, because that's where I grew up and that's where I'm most skilled in fixing things, it doesn't end there. -- Erykah Badu
I never lost my interest in acting but I did lose my interest in the business and what I had to go through to make a film. I felt saturated, you know, like a sponge when it's saturated - it's not good. -- Debra Winger
Sometimes my interest in working on a film is not always dictated specifically by the character. Sometimes it's simply about wanting to be a part of a vision that I love, or a script that I love. I find exciting and gratifying. -- Elijah Wood
I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie. -- Natasha Henstridge
I sort of have a dog-minded single strategy but I am a little more open to stuff that's out there, now and looking at scripts in the world and seeing if something that already exists can spark my interest and my curiosity. -- Todd Haynes

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