“The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.”
Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist
Source: Kiss of a Demon King
“The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.”
Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist
“No; that doesn't interest me.'
'That's because you never read a book about it.”
Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises
Source: The Sun Also Rises
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Source: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 14
Context: One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. … All you need to do is to be curious, receptive, eager for experience. And there's one strange thing: when you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
James McBride (writer) (1957) American journalist
On letting his work speak regarding race and class in “James McBride Says Fiction Writing Allows Him More Freedom” https://www.npr.org/2017/10/01/554933082/james-mcbride-says-fiction-writing-allows-him-more-freedom in NPR (2017 Oct 1)
“Nothing seems interesting when it belongs to you, only when it doesn't."---Tuck Everlasting”
Natalie Babbitt (1932–2016) American children's writer and illustrator
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
I would have fired BP chief by now, Obama says http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37566848/ns/disaster_in_the_gulf/ (June 8, 2010) <br class="br">2010, 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill (April 2010)
“I'm not interested in being a "lover." I'm interested in only being love.”
Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now