"I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly."

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"I was not naturally intellectual, but somebody whose interest had to be whetted, still the case sadly."

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"When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke."

Brian P. Cleary, American Author

Interest, Thinking, Word

"It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go."

Robert Iger, American Businessman

Interest, Old, Rules

"The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire."

Leland Stanford, American Educator

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"I like zombies, Stephen King also like them.Zombies are pretty interesting creatures,..."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

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"I think Elaine would go out with anyone if they showed interest in her. She's nuts. The woman's nuts."

Julia Louis Dreyfus, American Actress

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"I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road."

Earl Scruggs, American Musician

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"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."

Gene Tierney, American Actress

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"It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured."

Man

"I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head."

Guitar

"So I continued through my next school, which takes me up to the age of 17, moving from the bottom stream of one year into the bottom stream of the next year, all the way through. I showed other talents which gave me self-respect, which is fine."

Age

"My next step must be to go to drama school. Well, I get into drama school, so I did that."

Drama

"Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be."

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"Actors often behave like children, and so we're taken for children. I want to be grown up."

Actor

"My father was a CPA. He worked hard in the aircraft industry, and would come home more and more infrequently. He was about to leave my mother, which he did when I was 15."

Home

"An acting assistant stage manager in a theater in Canterbury, a rep theater. A small wage but just enough to get by on, and I made props and I walked on, and I changed scenery, and I realized that I just loved it."

Management

"We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams."

Dream

"So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure."

Success