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• At the end, excitement maintained its hysteria.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Oracles, Literature, Calm

  Henry David Thoreau (1862). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. By Henry D. Thoreau”, p.133

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• Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Motivational, Sports, Running

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• I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

  Irvine Welsh

  Music, House, Way

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• The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Travel, Space, House

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• I saw my name: THOMAS, Petria. Saw my time, 57.72. Saw the number one next to them. I'd done it. Me! Petria Thomas, Olympic champion. The feeling inside was one of pure, utter joy. Excitement, disbelief, relief, hapiness, amazement, the whole works. Id worked so hard. I'd gone through so much, privately, publicly. I'd lost faith in myself and found it again. I'd sometimes stopped believing that I could do it and that I had a purpose in life. I'd come through the darkness, and this, this moment, was the sweetest, most amazing light there could possibly be. I was alive and loving it!

  Petria Thomas

  Motivational, Sports, Believe

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• If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

  Cate Blanchett

  Disappointment, Perfect, Expectations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better.

  Sarah Chalke

  Character, Helping

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• Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

  Major Owens

  Together, Want, Students

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• In your life’s journey, there will be excitement and fulfillment, boredom and routine, and even the occasional train wreck… But when you have picked a dream that is bigger than you personally, that truly reflects the ideals that you cherish, and that can positively affect others, then you will always have another reason for carrying on.

  Pamela Melroy

  Dream, Journey, Train Wrecks

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• Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Firsts, Impossibility

  "Write Till You Drop". www.nytimes.com. May 28, 1989.

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• You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement.

  Brandi Chastain

  Sports, Fun, Thrill

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• Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow.

  Victor Hugo

  Lying, Wine, Pleasure

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• The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.

  William Wordsworth

  Beauty, Perception, Mind

  William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Mason (2007). “Lyrical Ballads”, p.64, Pearson Education

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• There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Character, Creative, Process

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• I saw the excitement, going to different places, being able to explore emotion in a healthy way.

  Corbin Bernsen

  Healthy, Able, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good, and against some greatly scorned evil.

  Ruth Benedict

  Fighting, Evil, Life Is

  Ruth Benedict (2011). “An Anthropologist at Work”, p.144, Transaction Publishers

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• It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, War, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.111

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• I lost that excitement I had when I first started out. It was all about the need to just get a job, and so I found the joy again when I was writing Deuce Bigelow. I was laughing so hard and along with my writing partner at the time, simply laughing until we cried

  Rob Schneider

  Jobs, Writing, Laughing So Hard

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• A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.

  Rachel Carson

  Beautiful, Children, Garden

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.

  Rachel Weisz

  Beauty, Running, Fall

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• The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.

  Fanny Kemble

  Weather, People, Curiosity

  Fanny Kemble (1879). “Records of a Girlhood”

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• When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement

  Tom Osborne

  Missing You, Player, Games

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• The real excitement and big deal for me started when I got cast in the first X-Men, which was sort of a fluke.

  Shawn Ashmore

  Real, Men, Firsts

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

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• The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.

  Brian May

  Guitar, Grit, Kind

  "Brian May - A Regal Audience". Vox Magazine Interview, www.brianmay.com. March 1991.

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