To a newspaperman, a human being is an item with the skin wrapped around it.
John F. Sullivan
The Olympics is not really about the sport, it's about the story behind the person. You keep the sport relatively simple to understand - let the fans understand that a takedown is 1 point, a turn is 2, a pin and the match is over. Keep it simple, and keep the story on the individual.
I'm interested in the human more than I'm interested in building suspense.
A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself.
I think economics - and this is what I've tried to impart - has a tremendous amount of human interest in it.
I will be doing a lot of human interest interviews. It involves empathising and listening. Which is a lot of what my day job is about. And, frankly, the priesthood isn't without its element of showbusiness.
Justice is the great interest of man on earth.
I like photographing the people I love, the people I admire, the famous, and especially the infamous. My last infamous subject was the extreme right wing French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen.
We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.
Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me.
Most of these people habitually led rather gray lives. And they came to see the president much as they would have come to see the circus. It was something to talk over and remember and tell their children about. But I think that besides the mere curiosity there was good feeling behind it all, a feeling that the president was their man and symbolized their government, and that they had a proprietary interest in him and wished to see him and that they hoped he embodied their aspirations and their best thoughts.
You don't want to just preach to people; you want to get them emotionally involved, and I think you do that with a wonderful human story about one person's struggle.
Scandal is news with a very human face, interesting to a high percentage of the American public.
I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.
I became a journalist to come as close as possible to the heart of the world.
It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes about people who happen to do sports. The best columns are the ones where you tie it somehow into the fabric of the country.
I am an old journalist, so I always do a lot of research and dive deep into people's character, who they are, and their motivation.
The Depression was an incredibly dramatic episode - an era of stock-market crashes, breadlines, bank runs and wild currency speculation, with the storm clouds of war gathering ominously in the background... For my money, few periods are so replete with human interest.
I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.
I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in children because they are people.
A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal.
After a summer trip to Switzerland, which was rich in experiences, I started writing. In the beginning, I aimed at descriptions of nature and folk life until, as the years passed, the description of man became my chief interest.
I think we have always had a fascination for gangs and gangsters, and I think we always will.
What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.
You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies.
