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• My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn't actually play on my own for about 30 years.

  Louis Sachar

  Hands, Years, Bridges

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• I'm a Catholic, and I have always been fascinated by not just my religion, but religion in general, in the sense that it is the ultimate brand that they're trying to sell. Whereas Ford is trying to sell cars, the Vatican is trying to sell salvation, which is a much better product to be peddling.

  Tom Fontana

  Car, Catholic, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't know: Why aren't people fascinated by air traffic controllers?

  Kurt Fuller

  Air, People, Traffic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The thing that always fascinated me about improv is that it's basically a happy accident that you think you're initiating.

  Tina Fey

  Thinking, Happy Accidents, Accidents

  The BELIEVER Magazine Interview, www.believermag.com. November, 2003.

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• "Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What fascinates me is not that people ask the question, but what kind of answer are they really looking for? Because if I tell them the truth, which is "I make them up," they seem very disappointed. They want to know about the trek I do once a year to the mountain.

  Neil Gaiman

  Ideas, Years, People

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• These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and any broad literary stroke with outright hate. The result is a strange and arid literary climate where a meaningless little fingernail paring like Nicholson Baker's Vox becomes an object of fascinated debate and dissection, and a truly ambitious American novel like Matthew's Heart of the Country is all but ignored.

  Stephen King

  Country, Hate, Heart

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• I was fascinated by The Lord of the Rings from about the age of eight and that lasted well into my teens.

  Philip Reeve

  Eight, Age, Teens

  "Philip Reeve: 'I can't even drive a car, let alone an inter-dimensional phone box'". Interview with Patrick, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2013.

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• I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best known books, the Mortal Engines series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.

  Philip Reeve

  Book, Stuff, Used

  "Philip Reeve: 'I can't even drive a car, let alone an inter-dimensional phone box'". Interview with Patrick, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2013.

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• As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mad, Curiosity, Looks

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.36, Wordsworth Editions

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• People that could yodel always fascinated me. People that could sing loud always fascinated me. So I started trying to mimic at a really young age: 6, 7 years old.

  Brandi Carlile

  Years, People, Age

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• I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

  Trudi Canavan

  Supernatural Elements, Stories, Literature

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• Im so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well.

  Kimbra

  Way, Longing, Wells

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• I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I'd collect them like other people collect teapots. I don't know why I love them so much. I'm just very interested in the idea of a house as a metaphor for the way one lives.

  Frances Mayes

  Ideas, People, House

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• I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

  Antonio Damasio

  Decision, Feelings, Sides

  "Feeling Our Emotions". Interview with Manuela Lenzen, www.scientificamerican.com.

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• Having grown up Protestant, I was unfamiliar with St. Francis. Then I watched the movie Brother Sun, Sister Moon... I just became fascinated with the character of St. Francis. What I saw in that movie was a man who had fallen in love with God, someone for whom God was everything.

  Rich Mullins

  Brother, Character, Moon

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• The process of art evolving is always one which has fascinated me.

  Norman McLaren

  Art, Process, Evolve

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• I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens.

  Alexandra Kerry

  Garden, National Parks, Gateways

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

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• I've always been fascinated by the military, the discipline they have and the sacrifices they make to defend the country. It's something I've always been interested in.

  Troy Polamalu

  Country, Military, Sacrifice

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• No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

  Peter Mayle

  Southern, Matter, Backgrounds

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• India brings out so many different feelings in me. I've been fascinated with India and Indian culture as long as I can remember - ever since the '60s with the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

  Joe Perry

  Long, Feelings, Different

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• People are just fascinated by assassinations.

  Louis Stokes

  People, Assassination

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• I guess I'm fascinated with motion because I find that whenever anything is moving, I have some feeling about it. It doesn't matter what kind of motion it is. A motion will always evoke some kind of reaction.

  Arthur Ganson

  Moving, Feelings, Matter

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• When I was younger, I read a book by Frank Barnaby, this wonderful nuclear physicist. He said that media had a responsibility, that all sectors of society had a responsibility to try and move things forward. And that fascinated me... I'd been messing around with a camera most of my life...

  Jeremy Gilley

  Moving, Book, Responsibility

  "On September 21, call a global truce" by Jeremy Gilley, www.cnn.com. January 15, 2012.

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• I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a natural area that I'd have loved - to teach it, probably, Language has always fascinated me. There's a genetic inheritance there a good language gene, which I inherited [from my mother and grandfather] and she fostered that in me as he fostered that in her.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Thinking, Careers

  "George Carlin confronts reality" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. October 29, 2004.

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• The phrase the violent bear it away fascinated the 20th century Irish-American storyteller Flannery O'Connor, who used it as the title of one of her novels. O'Connor's surname connects her to an Irish royal family descended from Conchobor (pronounced Connor), the prehistoric king of Ulster who was foster father to Cuchulainn and husband of the unwilling Derdriu. In the western world, the antiquity of Irish lineages is exceeded only by that of the Jews.

  Thomas Cahill

  Kings, Husband, Father

  Thomas Cahill (2011). “How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe”, p.71, Hachette UK

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