Interest Quote by Melvin Van Peebles Download Open image “Essentially, I'm, most of all, a writer. So, what makes people tick interests me.” — Melvin Van Peebles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Interest People Tick Writing
Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested… — Eric Brown Copy Share Image
I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly by others.… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves. — Garry Hynes Copy Share Image
Writers interest me for their style, their obsessions, the ways in which they approach the world. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience. — Jonathan Carroll Copy Share Image
...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on around me. — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer. — Patricia Clarkson Copy Share Image
I went to a number of schools when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I'm not a normal director. You can't look at me that way. What's kept me alive is my technical skill at doing other things. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Don't ask me something if you don't want to know. Because I will tell you. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
After 'Don't Play Us Cheap,' I got very busy with theater and Wall Street. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
The studios didn't really take independent films seriously, till 'Sweetback' was such a financial success. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I said to my kids, 'Learn the business of America if you want to be an artist in America. The rest of that stuff,… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Right now we're concerned about budget. Right now we're concerned about the prospect of interest rate rise. We're concerned about government corruption, government handing… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
I became a bit of a teacher's pet, and it became known in the school by both faculty and students that I really excelled… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
I really like female singers; I've got zero interest in working with male singers. Any male voice I need to do, I can do. — Devin Townsend Copy Share Image
I could not identify with harming my child or giving up my child. But I could identify with giving up my child if it… — Drea De Matteo Copy Share Image
Human life consists of doing certain things ... to take part in the life of the community; to be able to talk about subjects… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
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