Fascinating Quotes - Page 16

• You can learn any accent you want. It's a fascinating thing.

  Diane Kruger

  Want, Accents

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• I find myself fascinating.

  Milan Kundera

  Self

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• I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

  James Lipton

  Thinking, Talking, Interesting

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• If you don't know the right people or have the right connections, you may never be discovered. With 'Opening Act,' we are democratizing a notoriously impossible process, pulling back the curtains on a consistently fascinating industry, and affording aspiring artists the chance of a lifetime.

  Nigel Lythgoe

  Artist, People, Connections

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• I find the subject of childhood fascinating. I explored this subject in Speak to me of love and I am curious about portraying the often painful transition into the adult world.

  Sophie Marceau

  Pain, Childhood, Adults

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• I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Character, Thinking, Creating

  "Q&A with ‘Orphan Black’ Star Tatiana Maslany". Interview, www.bbcamerica.com. April 8, 2013.

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• The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

  Arthur Miller

  Theatre, Theater

  The New York Times, May 9, 1984.

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• Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.

  Moby

  Chaos, Internet, Benign

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• NASA is an utterly fascinating place, and the fact that the buildings look so anonymous almost make it more fascinating. You walk by a generic office-park-looking building, and you have no idea what's going on inside.

  Moby

  Ideas, Office, Looks

  "Pop star Moby goes to space camp" by Richard Stenger, www.cnn.com. July 29, 2002.

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• The ego is a fascinating monster.

  Alanis Morissette

  Ego, Monsters

  "'I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing'". Interview with Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

  Alanis Morissette

  Birthday, Sarcasm, Thinking

  "I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing" by Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• What I found fascinating was just how quickly the best of the young Negro League players were drafted into the major leagues once Branch Rickey broke the color line by hiring Jackie Robinson. It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the black ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Player, Color, League

  "An Interview With Walter Dean Myers About The Journal of Biddy Owens". Interview with Richard F. Abrahamson and Eleanore S. Tyson, www.scholastic.com.

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• It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.

  Ralph Nader

  People, Usual, Watches

  Ralph Nader (2011). “In Pursuit of Justice: Collected Writings 2000-2003”, p.177, Seven Stories Press

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• I love food. I mean, I really love food. I take pictures of my finest, funniest and most fascinating dishes, post them on Twitter, and send them to friends. I treat menus like classic literature, refusing to skip even one word. I read the description of every item, regardless of whether or not I'm interested in eating it.

  Rachel Nichols

  Mean, Literature, Classic

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• I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there's no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that's standing ten feet to eleven feet tall! Can you imagine? But it was fascinating to work that close to that kind of animal.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Animal, Play, Feet

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• Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Book, Reading, Listening

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• I’m always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything. When people have real faith in something, it’s fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.

  Conor Oberst

  Real, Believe, Hard Times

  "Ben Gibbard’s Seventh-Album Stretch". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 13, 2011.

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• I find the family the most mysterious and fascinating institution in the world.

  Amos Oz

  Family, World, Mysterious

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• The ancient Greeks were the first ones to say an unexamined life is not worth living. They don't tell you of course what we found out, an examined life not that fascinating either.

  Colin Quinn

  Greek, Firsts, Life Is

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• Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.

  Julia Roberts

  Communication, Challenges, Together

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• I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.

  Ann Rule

  Men, Rotten, Bad Woman

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• What's fascinating is, people in Washington would rather spend time in Hollywood, and people in Hollywood would rather spend time in Washington.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  People, Hollywood, Spend Time

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My dad, he is such a soft man. Even if he has these opinions about my boyfriends, he will be the sweetest guy. He will make you feel like you're fascinating and awesome, even if he doesn't like you that much.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Dad, Father, Men

  "'Dear John' Co-stars Channing Tatum And Amanda Seyfried Are The Write Stuff Onscreen And Off". Interview with Matt Pais, articles.chicagotribune.com. February 05, 2010.

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• I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

  Wallis Simpson

  Fashion, Travel, Pregnancy

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• New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

  Wallace Stevens

  New York, Stupid, Walking Away

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.38, Univ of California Press

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