Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

- Hilary Mantel

I get the lyrics of a tune and interpret them my way.

- Kylie Minogue

And I like to interpret music. So I think it's all interpretive.

- Katey Sagal

How most consumers collect and interpret health information has changed.

- James Heywood

I'm responsible for what I say, but I'm not responsible about how people interpret my situation.

- Juan Pablo Galavis

I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.

- Joan Allen

The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On 'Rock 'n' Roll,' John Lennon does nothing but interpret old rock.

- Jon Landau

I've always been so surprised by how people interpret my photos in context.

- JR

I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

- J. M. Coetzee

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.

- Jacques Lacan

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

- Alfred Adler

I learned to interpret the ancient pictograph codices and read Nahuatl, the Aztec language.

- Gary Jennings

The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

- George W. Bush

There's some people who are not understanding what Limp Bizkit is about. But, then again, who am I to tell people what they can use art for or how they can interpret it?

- Fred Durst

'Brooklyn's Finest,' this is the kind of movie that's why I want to be an actor, to tell real-life stories. This is where I feel my job is, to interpret life.

- Ethan Hawke

Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.

- Eric Schlosser

I love it when people want to interpret my books.

- China Mieville

The mouse genome is an invaluable tool to interpret the human genome.

- Craig Venter

The people I've encountered who are really dangerous in my life don't go around with their fangs drawn - they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what's going on.

- Ben Mendelsohn

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

- Andre Malraux