#rested

Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#angry #arrested #because #before #everyone

It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#books #cliche #come #different #diverse

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#became #doing #few #few women #first

There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford. ↗

— Alexander Wang

#clothes #designers #fantasy #fashion #i

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#early #ever #folk #folk music #got

I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now. ↗

— Brigitte Bardot

#am #cinema #enjoy #even #even now

I'm interested in playing, not working. ↗

— Don Van Vliet

#interested #playing #working

I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics. ↗

— Bjork

#amateur #because #going #i #i can

I was always interested in photography and other forms of art. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#art #forms #i #interested #other

Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating. ↗

— Warren Zevon

#grating #i #interested #like #little