Sentence examples for interested not from inspiring English sources

No disrespect to the great Dale Carnegie, but I disagree with his clichéd mantra of "be interested, not interesting".

Remember that the key is to be interested, not interesting.

"Not interested, not interested," the senator insists.

Sneaky-funny instead of brassy, it is interested not in extremity but in small-bore observation.

I'm interested not only in what they do, but how they live.

Ingmar Bergman was interested not in saving souls but in baring them.

For Dr Watanabe is interested not in their bodies but in their minds.

Be interested -- not interesting.

PBS was moderately interested -- not in chess itself, but in the match's ideological subtext.

"I am interested … not so much in absurd discoveries as in their consequences" (MS, 16).

Furthermore, the letter should have read "We were interested…" not "I was interested …".