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I was keen to direct an action film, and when Reliance approached me for the remake of 'Singham,' I saw an opportunity to return to my first love. — Rohit Shetty

Affluence, unless stimulated by a keen imagination, forms but the vaguest notion of the practical strain of poverty. — Edith Wharton

There are many Israelis who are not keen on Barack Obama - they did not want to see him elected. — Richard Engel

Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric. — Hugh Grant

The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make. — William Shakespeare

I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts. — Gina Bellman

For most of that time, I've also been a keen gardener, but for many years I failed to make the connection between gardening and science. — Ken Thompson

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes. — Sam Abell

I think over there in Montreal they're a bit hardcore with the old homos. They're not that keen on them. — Allan Carr

Our keen sense of our own unease does not mean that we are stuck, therefore. It means that we are already moving. But where, and how? — Yuval Levin

The Hawk's keen nose is picking up the scent of a COWARD! Right . . . about . . . HERE! he snarled, and pointed at ME! — Rachel Renee Russell

Deeply in love with you, I feel the keen pain of your absence. — Laura Ramirez

Time itself now held long breaths with keen suspense. — Herman Melville

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever. — Alfred Hitchcock

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. — Samuel Adams

It may be your soul that I love, but I'm pretty keen on its vessel, too. — Laini Taylor

We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story. — David Foster Wallace

We are very keen to disapprove. — Alexander McCall Smith

True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned. — Anthony De Mello

Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless. — John Stott

The one who obeys God's instruction for today will develop a keen awareness of His direction for tomorrow. — Lysa TerKeurst

I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like. — Judi Dench

This must be a real horrorshow film if you're so keen on my viddying it. — Anthony Burgess

I'm not that keen on the idea of being unconscious. — Christopher Hitchens

Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly. — Sam Keen

Some kinds of hunger were sweet in themselves, the anticipation of satisfaction as keen a pleasure as the slaking. — Diana Gabaldon

Why anarchists are so fond of Sue?
Because they are keen on Sue's side — Stephan Attia

I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks. — Carmen Ejogo

... when the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable ... — Steve Martin

I've known a whole lot of bulls in my time, and their work is never done. — Robert Earl Keen

The lack of energy struck unfairly keen when Mo bounced into the stables. Just had to come by before I headed off to the hell of school. — Nora Roberts

Free services like Wikipedia I don't think benefit anyone - they don't benefit the professional because they're not paid. — Andrew Keen

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination. — Eric Bana

We can only choose whether we will feel and not what we will feel. — Sam Keen

Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion! — J.K. Rowling

I'm not keen on the Internet. I don't trust it. — Amanda Eliasch

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket. — John E. Walker

[Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person. — Kumi Naidoo

Freedom is nothing if you don't take it with your bare hands. — Scott Keen

I was offered a few shows, but the money didn't work out, but I'm not very keen on judging such shows. I'm happy in my space as a composer. — Pritam Chakraborty

I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer. — Annie Lennox

Freedom is an inside job. — Sam Keen

Keen at the start, but careless at the end. — Tacitus

If you had your time all over again ... ? She was keen to know.
You can't rewrite history. I have no idea what I'd do. — Maeve Binchy

He is also a keen cook, gardener and birder. He has no middle fingers on one hand, so he can't swear but is permanently doing the heavy metal sign. — Alan Partridge

I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective. — John Buchan

I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan. — Nigel Kneale

I never got married anyway, because I wasn't particularly keen on accepting the responsibility of another person. — Jimmy Savile

As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world. — Warren Bennis

Nothing gives so keen an edge to the intelligence as a passionate suspicion. — Stefan Zweig

I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls. — George Aiken

We can't get away with anything with children. They are keen and attentive, and they will eventually grow up to tell the story of their home. — Sarah Mae

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. — Mary Wortley Montagu

I think it's increasingly hard to have deep self-knowledge without entering the darkness in some way. — Sam Keen

You can't do a good job unless you're keen on it yourself. — David Hawkins

The road goes on forever and the party never ends. — Robert Earl Keen

Kara Keen--Romance with heat, humor and heart — Kara Keen

There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,
And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy. — Emily Dickinson

Science fiction is a genre that no everyone is keen on watching. — Zoe Saldana

Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose. — Edmund Phelps

Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak. — Dan Stevens

Down to earth advice about the path that leads away from the kingdom of the hollow men. — Sam Keen

Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples ... is the great spiritual challenge of our time. — Sam Keen

The key relationships in the future will not be between people, but between machines and people. — Andrew Keen

No, thanks, we're not keen on cat pix. — Ira Levin

Whoever has a keen eye for profits, is blind in relation to his craft. — Sophocles

I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs. — Freddie Mercury

Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours. — John Dryden

My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances. — Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

What happens if I try to build a life dedicated to avoiding all danger and all unnecessary risk? — Sam Keen

I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else. — Bob Ainsworth

You don't go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul. — Sam Keen

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better. — Winston Churchill

I am keen on helping Indian bowlers but I am not seeking a full-time role. But yes I am really keen on helping out pace bowlers across the world, — Brett Lee

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same. — George Bernard Shaw

I was keen to stage 'Faust,' although I find Goethe's 'Faust' indigestible. — Simon McBurney

It looked like the basket of someone keen to live life to the full — Nina Stibbe

I'm not keen on history being tampered with ... to any extent. — Daniel Day-Lewis

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science. — Terry Pratchett

Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the history of this country. — Tyler Cowen

You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart. — Sam Keen

No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define
what is a bird. — Emma Lazarus

I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks. — Fay Godwin

We are so keen in our #pursuitofhappiness that we forget to be #happy!! — Twinkle Varshney

In the degree that we remember and retell our stories and create new ones we become the authors, the authorities, of our own lives. — Sam Keen

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace. — Nelson Mandela

Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure. — Henry Fielding

The way I see it, there are just 2 ways to go, livin' fast or dyin' slow! Which way you gonna go? — Robert Earl Keen

My wife has a keen sense of humor. The more I humor her, the better. — Henny Youngman

Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity. — Andrew Keen

in order to be an effective communicator: you must be a keen listener and a keen observer. Let — Alex Malley

I don't remember being a keen reader, but apparently I was. My aunt told me that whenever I was teased for reading, I would say, "To each his own." — Sefi Atta

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen. — Henry David Thoreau

a certain consciousness of our entire past and our imagined future blends itself with all our moments of keen sensibility. And — George Eliot

We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact. — Angelus Silesius

It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. — Samuel Adams

Economics is too important to leave to the economists. — Steve Keen

I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time — Robert Earl Keen

I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent. — Robin Trower