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• I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will come to me next. If you procrastinate a lot, you might be one who loves having written, but doesn't so much like writing.

  Dean Koontz

  Writing, Might, Next

  "Interview with the Master of Suspense, Dean Koontz (part 1)". Interview with Trisha Sugarek, www.writeratplay.com. June 28, 2014.

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• I write because I am curious. I am curious about me.

  Pat Mora

  Writing

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• There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines.

  Ronald Steel

  Relationship, Sandwiches, Enough

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• It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

  Mark Twain

  Interesting, Nickels, Fussy

  Mark Twain (2010). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.177, Univ of California Press

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• Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. Not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. We are no longer in art concerned with the type. It is with the exception that we have to do. I cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, I need hardly say. Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Memories, Passion

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.731, GENERAL PRESS

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• For all men have but a little while to live and none knows his fate thereafter. So that a man possesses nothing certainly save a brief loan of his body: and yet the body of man is capable of much curious pleasure.

  James Branch Cabell

  Fate, Men, Body

  James Branch Cabell (2012). “Jurgen”, p.124, Courier Corporation

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• I've only made short films and two features, which are very different. One is a surreal comedy, and the other is a period tragedy. I'm curious to know what misconceptions this could trigger

  Sophie Barthes

  Two, Tragedy, Different

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at the Mona Lisa it becomes a man. It is not a woman disguised as a man; it is a real man, and that was my discovery, without realising it at the time.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Real, Men, Discovery

  Marcel Duchamp (2002). “Marcel Duchamp”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• The making of adaptable, curious, open, questioning people has nothing to do with vocational training and everything to do with humanistic and scientific studies.

  Neil Postman

  People, Training, Study

  Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.32, Vintage

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• Recently I was directing an episode of 'Glee' and I lost my cell phone - and I didn't have time to buy a new one for three weeks. Well, the first few days I was anxious as hell, suffered the delirium tremens, didn't think I could make it through, etc. Then something kind of curious happened - I began to feel great.

  Eric Stoltz

  Thinking, Phones, Cells

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• One of the things I prize most about being a writer is its license - you could even say injunction - to be curious, to follow anything anywhere and see where it might take you, how it can transform you, whether in content or form.

  Gregory Allen Howard

  Might, Form, Prize

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• A Nation of Outsiders is smart, insightful, and politically astute. Grace Hale's analysis of the 'romance of the outsider' is necessary reading for anyone who has ever wondered about the meaning of our national obsession with 'authenticity'-as well as for anyone who might be curious about what Jerry Falwell and Holden Caulfield have in common.

  Beth Bailey

  Smart, Reading, Romance

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• This is why I respect those who are curious about God, but I beware of those who claim to find Him.

  C. J. Anderson

  Claims

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• I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.

  Albert Einstein

  Genius

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• The owl is one of the most curious creatures. A bird that stays awake when the rest of the world sleeps. They can see in the dark. I find that so interesting, to be mired in reality when the rest of the world is dreaming. What does he see and what does he know that the rest of the world is missing?

  M.J. Rose

  Dream, Sleep, Dark

  M. J. Rose (2014). “Seduction: A Novel of Suspense”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not gay, im just liberal-curious

  Kevin Rudd

  Gay

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• I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's curious to me why people do like to be afraid.

  Dylan McDermott

  People, World, Stuff

  "Dylan McDermott Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, His New Role on the Show, Why the Show Resonates with Viewers and Returning for Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 20, 2012.

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• it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Hate, Love Is, Hatred

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2010). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.225, Bibliolis Books

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• I remember every wand I’ve ever sold, Mr. Potter. Every single wand. It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand, gave another feather — just one other. It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its brother — why, its brother gave you that scar.

  J. K. Rowling

  Brother, Phoenix, Tails

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• We have two alternatives: either we question our beliefs - or we don't. Either we accept our fixed versions of reality- or we begin to challenge them. In Buddha's opinion, to train in staying open and curious - to train in dissolving our assumptions and beliefs - is the best use of our human lives.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Reality, Two

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.26, Shambhala Publications

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• It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sea, Progress, Monsters

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.47, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon – it is the very heart of painting. Repeated experiments with adjacent colors will show that any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.

  Josef Albers

  Heart, Color, Hue

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• It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Spring, Apes, Revelations

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1959). “The Ape in Me”

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• It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place.

  David Benatar

  Children, People, Suffering

  David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.6, Oxford University Press

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• With ADD, you’re curious. You’re eyes believe what they see. Your ears believe what others say. I learned to trust my eyes.

  Paul Orfalea

  Believe, Eye, Add

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