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• I am fascinated by how people eat and what it reveals about them.

  Joanne Harris

  People

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• I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.

  Penn Jillette

  Sports, Talking, Firsts

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

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• I am really interested in eccentric minds. It's rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It's really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.

  Mark Haddon

  Car, Mind, Abnormal

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• Ever since I've been young I've been fascinated by the human body. I've written songs about it, but you can become quite morbid if you think about it too much - paranoid and a hypochondriac.

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Thinking, Body

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

  Brian Eno

  Magic, Kind, Form

  "The 77 Million Faces of Brian Eno". Interview with Andrew Marantz, www.motherjones.com. November 12, 2012.

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• I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

  Brian Eno

  Musician, Territory, Best Work

  "Brian Eno: from the Velvet Underground to Burial". Interview with Rob Fitzpatrick, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2011.

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• I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene.

  Nicolas Cage

  Years, Television, Waking

  "Interview with Nicolas Cage from 'G-Force'". Interview with Julie Bonner, www.alloy.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.

  Nicolas Cage

  Boys, Thinking, Magic

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• I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.

  Peter Benchley

  Believe, Men, Sharks

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• I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in.

  Amanda Burton

  Thinking, People, Locks

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• For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

  Bill Bryson

  Summer, Running, Home

  "Bill Bryson changes course for 'One Summer'". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. October 28, 2013.

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• I'm fascinated by power, especially veiled power. Shadow power. The National Security Agency. The National Reconnaissance Office. Opus Dei. The idea that everything happens for reasons we're not quite seeing.

  Dan Brown

  Ideas, Everything Happens For A Reason, Agency

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• Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Language, Wonder, Achieve

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• When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.

  Boris Becker

  Children, Rooms, Kind

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• I'm a student of media and I've always been one. I'm fascinated by the way we make the world around us based on pictures and how can we improve our perception of this picture world.

  Vik Muniz

  Media, Perception, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

  Jim Carrey

  Mother, Crazy, Mirrors

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• My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that we call neuropeptides.

  Deepak Chopra

  Years, Training, Molecules

  "You Are Not Your Brain: Interview With Alva Noe, Ph.D". Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2010.

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• I was fascinated with jeans, because you can impress your life upon the jeans you wear. The way you sit imprints on the jeans.

  Jack Dorsey

  Jeans, Way, Impress

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• I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by end-of-the-world stories, by outbreak narratives, and always wanted to set a world-ender on Hispaniola.

  Junot Diaz

  Stories, World, Narrative

  "This Week in Fiction: Junot Diaz" by Cressida Leyshon, www.newyorker.com. May 27, 2012.

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• I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments.

  Junot Diaz

  Reality, Fragments, Connected

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• People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows there's absolutely no more piercing betrayal. People are undone by it.

  Junot Diaz

  Betrayal, People, Infidelity

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• I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.

  Rachel Cusk

  Mother, Ifs

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• Being a former theater student, of course, there is a part of me that is fascinated with stage crafts and what you can do with illusions and working within the confines of the studio.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Crafts, Students, Illusion

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• The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

  Anderson Cooper

  Knowing, Culture, Fame

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• I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.

  Billy Connolly

  Offended You, Differences, People

  "Billy Connolly: 'My ambition is to be regarded as a nuisance'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2012.

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