It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Tell the story as if it were only of interest to the small circle of your characters, of which you may be one. There is no other way to put life into the story.
My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.
The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.
[From a window in the Writer's Building at MGM, which overlooked a cemetery:] Hello down there. It might interest you to know that up here we are just as dead as you are.
The best way of fulfilling your own interest is to take care of others.
I ask the internist why there aren't more Ornish-like studies. 'There aren't any financial interests involved. '
You can have a great script, and it can be a great show, but for whatever reason, it just doesn't take the public's interest.
A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.
I had no interest in being your basic vanilla girl. I've been lucky enough that I haven't had to play that.
Social Networking that matters is helping people archive their goals. Doing it reliably and repeatability so that over time people have an interest in helping you achieve your goals.
I have always found men quite fathomable. They look entirely to their own interest.
My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators.
No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.
Heads of state are actually prisoners of special interest groups.
I'm convinced that a trade deal between the U. S. and the U. K. is in the national interest of both countries and will cement the crucial relationship that exists between us, particularly as the U. K. leaves the European Union and reaches out to the world.
Originally, I started acting because I showed interest in movies and TV.
One thing that has been fascinating to me is the exploding interest in traditional American barbecue in Europe. We Americans have historically always imported food ideas from other places, and now we are exporting this gastronomic treasure called barbecue.
I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.
I'm someone who can fall in love at the drop of the hat. My parents raised me to be very accepting of other people, so because of that, I feel like I might be overly accepting of girls. If a girl shows any interest, I'm like, 'Yes! I love you, you're amazing!'