Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.
Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship.
For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.
It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.
Never allow yourself externally to portray anything that you have not inwardly experienced and which is not even interesting to you.
Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.
The thing I always say to any writer that I'm working with is: Just make sure that in any argument, EVERYONE is right. I want every single person arguing a righteous side of the argument. That makes interesting drama.
As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.
As long as our civilisation keeps trundling along generally forwards, then there is the possibility of a future where ethnicity is merely an interesting badge, not a uniform you can't take off.
If you want to make more interesting pictures, become a more interesting person.
I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. Bu t my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.
War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.
It is interesting ... how weapons reflect the soul of the maker.
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others.
Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money
Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far as we can see them as typical of the human condition.
When I think about [characters], I like to think of them in their relationships to each other. In the same way, I think that's how humans are ultimately defined. We are our relationships to one another. And a lot of what's interesting about us happens in the context of other people.
What I think is, you're supposed to leave somebody alone if he's at least being interesting and he's getting all excited about something. I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.
It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.
Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.
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