Fascination Quotes - Page 8

• Suddenly the land is haunted by all these dead Indians. There is this new fascination with the Southwest, with places like Santa Fe, New Mexico, where people come down from New York and Boston and dress up as Indians. When I go to Santa Fe, I find real Indians living there, but they are not involved in the earth worship that the American environmentalists are so taken by. Many of these Indians are interested, rather, in becoming Evangelical Christians.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Christian, New York, Real

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be -- and that's so tempting.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Jobs, Illusion, Curious

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• I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.

  Wole Soyinka

  Humanity, Theatre, Sake

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I certainly had this fascination with monsters and vampires as did Tim and whatever this darkness, this mystery, this intrigue. And then, as you get older, you recognize the erotic nature of the vampire and the idea of the undead.

  Johnny Depp

  Ideas, Darkness, Erotic

  "Johnny Depp, Tim Burton Interview - Dark Shadows". www.moviesonline.ca. November 23, 2017.

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• What is it we are hating? It goes beyond politics. I suppose that my fascination with [Margaret Thatcher] is not just with her political record but with her as a phenomenon.

  Hilary Mantel

  Hate, Political, Records

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• I have been a comic book fan nearly all my life. My fascination began as a refuge after my father left because it was within the stories told in comics that I could find heroes who fought for justice and where outcasts or misfits could find purpose and commonality. But over time I have come to love comics as a medium for its ability to tell stories with tremendous depth and emotion that in some ways go beyond what is possible solely with the written word.

  Andrew Aydin

  Father, Book, Hero

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I think that the idea of boundaries is being challenged everywhere. And I think our fascination with sci-fi is that it is a boundary-less world where we can kind of create the reality that we believe to be as opposed to the reality that is. It is about the beyond and the unknown in a different way than pretty much any type of storytelling is.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Believe, Reality, Thinking

  Source: screenrant.com

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• My work involves the physical manifestation of emotional reality. Thus, the invisible becomes visible; the normal, abnormal; and the familiar, unfamiliar. Ordinary life is an endless source of fascination to me in its ritualistic objects and behavior.

  Sandy Skoglund

  Reality, Emotional, Abnormal

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• [The Neon Demon] was more my own fascination with beauty. It's my children's fascination beauty.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Children, Neon, Demon

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I think there is a certain fascination with a man's hair.

  Justin Hawkins

  Men, Thinking, Hair

  Source: www.gq.com

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• If there is a single factor which separates the best photographers from the wannabes it is the quantity of images which they produce. They seem to be forever shooting. I have watched many of them as they take picture after picture even when they are not photographing. [...] Often these intimate images do not look as though they were taken by the same photographer. And that is their fascination and charm.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Taken, Forever

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• My relationship to Brooklyn is probably the relationship that any 40-year-old man has to his hometown, which is that this is where I live, this what I know, yet it's different, it's changed. My fascination with the city has maybe subsided and now it's just where I'm from, where I live.

  El-P

  Men, Years, Cities

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I'm sort of fascinated by America's fascination with rednecks, the whole Duck Dynasty thing. Being a white guy from the South, I find it amazing that so many TV viewers are enchanted by beards, bad dentistry and moonshine accents.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Redneck, Ducks, White

  "'True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre' - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about 'Razor Girl'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 8, 2016.

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• There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our industry, to this medium. You have to go back to the 1930s to find a movie that's just about Abraham Lincoln. I just found that my fascination with Lincoln, which started as a child, got to the point where after reading so much about him I thought there was a chance to tell a segment of his life to to moviegoers.

  Steven Spielberg

  Children, Reading, Television

  "Steven Spielberg And Daniel Day-Lewis Talk 'Lincoln'". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. November 26, 2012.

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• I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there is a conflict between creativity and the Eastern form of enlightenment. I don't know if I'll ever finish that essay, because I had an experience, after I'd written two or three chapters, in which it seemed to me that my psychic antibodies decisively rejected Buddhism. Interestingly, the rejection felt as if it happened in Zen terms.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Book, Writing, Creativity

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• The research reading I did for Fascination and Liberation included some Jung, and I noticed that he had a similar impression of Buddhism to myself, that, if it weren't for certain qualifying clauses, the philosophy would be downright suicidal.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Philosophy, Reading, Suicidal

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic - that it is not interested in anything. Hence the 'Fascination' in the title of the essay, the fascination of art and creativity, stands in opposition to what is called 'Liberation'.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Art, Creativity, Character

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• My earliest memories about music are connected with going to church and listening to organ music. I am not from a musical family, actually, and I remember my first musical fascination to be for organ music. I wanted to become an organist and not a pianist.

  Rafal Blechacz

  Memories, Musical, Listening

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• I also have this kind of fascination with Don Quixote, kind of like wanting something you're not going to get. I like that a lot.

  Sean William Scott

  Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think that there are these two very different sides to my relation to the Bible: one, my professional life; the other, a more private concern, interest and fascination with the Bible.

  Hershel Shanks

  Thinking, Two, Different

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I must be honest and say that I was under the fascination of films. I was fascinated by all films, even the words of them. If I was to do a more-precise analysis of the situation, I have to admit that I was more entertained by the bad films than the good ones. Because when something is beautiful, it is there; it is finished; it is done. It doesn't have to be touched or be worked upon.

  Sergio Leone

  Beautiful, Analysis, Done

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Spring, Writing, Civilization

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• I moved to Charlotte at a young age, and despite how much I like Charlotte, I've always had a fascination with my hometown.

  Kenny Wallace

  Age, Hometown, Young

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• It's important to play the pieces that you feel you can play well. It was always my dream to play Bach - my first love and fascination - Chopin, and Szymanowski.

  Rafal Blechacz

  Dream, First Love, Play

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• Initially it was a fascination for Tolkienesque Fantasy, and role-playing games, with time I realized that it was the mythological elements that fascinated me the most, so I moved more and more in that direction.

  Varg Vikernes

  Playing Games, Role Playing, Roles

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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