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• I was always amazed the way people would come in looking one way and transform completely to the point where I couldn't recognize their language, their accent, the way they looked, their hair, their face even changed becoming so inside of the character.

  Alicia Keys

  Character, Hair, People

  "Jeremy Piven, Ryan Reynolds, Alicia Keys, Common and Nestor Carbonell on Shooting Smokin' Aces". MovieWeb interview, www.movieweb.com. January 22, 2007.

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• It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Character, Yield, Harmony

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Color, Would Be, Subtle

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1969). “Self-realization Magazine”

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• I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Writing, Knowledge, Men

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!

  Edward Weston

  Reason, Interest, Sufficient

  Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (1990). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”

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• My caddy today was a Scot and he told me that he was cheering for Australia, which I thought was a bit harsh. But generally I've been amazed at how many people have come up to me here in Scotland and said: 'I've never really watched cricket before, but I was hooked all summer.' It's great.

  Andrew Strauss

  Summer, Cheer, Scotland

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• As a woman experiment and observe. Observe yourself as you go through a day. You will be amazed to discover the number and variety of things you do just on the physical level to control, or at least pass without being hassled.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Numbers, Enlightenment

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• One way to develop faith and confidence is simply to practice using it. If I were to ask you whether you're confident that you can tie your own shoes, I'm sure you could tell me with perfect confidence that you can. Why? Only because you've done it thousands of times! So practice confidence by using it consistently, and you'll be amazed at the dividends it reaps in every area of your life.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Practice, Shoes

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• You'd be amazed at how much power women have over men - and the basic control is nagging... Men are very simple creatures, like puppies.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Simple, Nagging

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• One thing about being a painter is that if you have a dog you are naturally going to spend a lot of time with him or her. It has always amazed me the closeness of that relationship even though a word was never spoken, intellect not any part of it.

  Ken Gillespie

  Dog, Intellect, Painter

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• I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!

  Quentin Crisp

  Talking, Sitting, Pay

  "The Naked Civil Servant". Book by Quentin Crisp, Chapter 15, 1968.

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• I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.

  Philip Roth

  Writing, Desire, Fiction

  "'The Novelist's Obsession Is With Language': Philip Roth on Writing, the Future of Language and the Ghost Writer". Interview with Cynthia Haven, news.stanford.edu. February 03, 2014.

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• For human nature is so made that only what is unusual and infrequent excites wonder or is regarded as of value. We make no wonder of the rising and the setting of the sun which we see every day; and yet there is nothing in the universe more beautiful, or worthy of wonder. When, however, an eclipse of the sun takes place, everyone is amazed - because it happens rarely.

  Gerald of Wales

  Beautiful, Eclipse Of The Sun, Rising

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• The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist. He stands unshook from age to youth Upon one pin-point of the truth.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Age, Tilt, Stones

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2008). “South Sea Tales”, p.257, OUP Oxford

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• I know what it is to put on weight. But when I got back to my routine, my body knew how to react. That's muscle memory, and you'll be amazed at what it can do.

  Arjun Rampal

  Memories, Routine, Weight

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• But an escape less self-depreciating was taken by Lord Westbury, who, it is said, rebuffed a barrister's reliance upon an earlier opinion of his Lordship: "I can only say that I am amazed that a man of my intelligence should have been guilty of giving such an opinion". If there are other ways of gracefully and good-naturedly surrendering former views to a better considered position, I invoke them all.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Taken, Men, Should Have

  "McGrath v. Kristensen, 340 U.S. 162, 178". Concurring opinion, 1950.

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• I am amazed that Congressmen can pass a bill imposing severe penalties on anyone who burns the American flag, whereas they are responsible for burning that for which the flag stands: the United States as a territory, as a people, and as a biological manifestation. That is an example of our perennial confusion of symbols with realities.

  Alan Watts

  Reality, People, Confusion

  "Individual and Society". Audio lecture,

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• I am always amazed by the novel angles that people come up with for kids' Christmas books. Even if a family is not religious, who could resist, say, "Olive, the Other Reindeer," about Olive the dog who thinks the song refers to her and heads for the North Pole to help Santa out?

  Jabari Asim

  Dog, Song, Religious

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• In an interstellar burst, I am back to save the universe. In a deep deep sleep of the innocent, I am born again. In a fast German car, I'm amazed that I survived, An airbag saved my life...

  Thom Yorke

  Car, Radiohead, Airbags

  "Song: Airbag (OK Computer)". March 24, 1998.

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• I am always amazed how much a certain facility with a special and apparently narrow technique can accomplish.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Special, Technique, Certain

  "Adventures of a Mathematician" by Stanislaw Ulam, Third Edition, (p. 96), 1991.

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• I had no idea how much music and singing really means to people, and in my own tiny way to be a part of that is very humbling and very sweet, and and I feel very honored. ... I have a great appreciation for this, in every ways and a new understanding, and I'm just as amazed as anyone else.

  Ysabella Brave

  Appreciation, Sweet, Mean

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"ysabellabravetalk #1", www.youtube.com. March 09, 2007.

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• I still am amazed that people would never buy a car if they were told it gets 75 miles to the gallon - they're absolutely clear on what's a scam. But when it comes to their health they will immediately fall for somebody telling them, "Take this pill and you'll live to be a hundred years old." There's something about medicine that allows us to fall for stupid sales pitches more easily.

  Dean Edell

  Pain, Stupid, Fall

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• As he was pummeled into one tight spot after another, emerging each time breathless and in amazed chagrin, Bryan flushed, with spots of anger in his cheeks. His whole body sagged. Before our very eyes, he became a beaten man.

  E. Haldeman-Julius

  Eye, Men, Atheism

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• I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a pitiful excuse for their own self-serving publicity. In response to their protests, I will provide a show where I balance my songs with a wholesome Bible reading. This way, fans will not only hear my so-called, violent point of view, but we can also examine the virtues of wonderful 'Christian' stories of disease, murder, adultery, suicide and child sacrifice. Now that seems like 'entertainment' to me.

  Marilyn Manson

  Christian, Suicide, Religious

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• In my own experience, I have been amazed to see how unrealistic are the bases for political opinion in general. Only rarely have I found a person who has chosen any particular political party - democratic or totalitarian - through study and comparison of principles.

  Joost Meerloo

  Party, Political Opinions, Atheism

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