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• Iceland is fascinating; really an amazing place to visit, and great for a film to go there.

  Russell Crowe

  Iceland, Amazing Places, Film

  "Russell Crowe Talks Spending Time in the Rain, Researching Biblical History, Working in Iceland, and More on the Set of NOAH". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. March 6, 2014.

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• It seems to me there's this grand mathematical world out there, and I am wandering through it and discovering fascinating phenomena that often totally suprise me. I do not think of mathemaatics as invented but rather discovered.

  George Andrews

  Science, Thinking, World

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• There's nothing else exactly like it in any other art form, the orchestration of so many different elements. It's endlessly fascinating what can be done editorially. You can create meaning where there was none, you can create feeling where there was none, you can create narrative where there was none. Two frames can be the difference between something that works and something that doesn't. It's fascinating.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Art, Two, Differences

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Although not initially of his own choosing, Michael Mann has been the most important, resilient, and outspoken warrior in the climate battle--responding to threats and persecution with courage and resolve every step of the way. Anyone who cares about the climate issue must read his fascinating--and enraging--story.

  Chris Mooney

  Warrior, Issues, Important

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• The good writer and the good actor are always searching for what is essential. It is a never-ending task because what is essential is always elusive and, therefore, fascinating.

  Glenda Jackson

  Essentials, Tasks, Actors

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• If you take real-life circumstances and take out all the pauses then you have a thriller. It has to be non-stop, high stakes and fascinating all the time. Real life is like that from time to time.

  Hank Phillippi Ryan

  Real, Life Is Like, Thrillers

  "Interview: Hank Phillippi Ryan, 'The Other Woman'". Interview with Pamela Clare, happyeverafter.usatoday.com. October 4, 2012.

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• To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century.

  Brigid Brophy

  Sex, Two, Mind

  Brigid Brophy (1966). “Don't Never Forget: Collected Views and Reviews”

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• You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Careers, Two, Healthy

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• The most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every day moments of existence. In a particular and attaching sense, they are those that can partake our pleasures and our pains in the liveliest and most devoted manner. Beauty is little without this; with it she is triumphant.

  Leigh Hunt

  Pain, Littles, Moments

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.170

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• Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the magnet that attaches us to a context in the world can lose its grip.

  Molly Haskell

  Insanity, Mind, World

  Molly Haskell (2000). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, p.84, iUniverse

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• Those voices telling you that it's all wrong, and you should be louder or softer or more fashionable or marketable? Those are the bad voices. The only guide you can afford to listen to is the obsessive, lovestruck thing inside you that keeps insisting it finds some particular subject utterly fascinating. Do not shame this part of yourself. Take it by the hand and lead it to safety.

  Doris Egan

  Hands, Voice, Safety

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• History is made of empires, and the United States was by far and away the greatest, richest, and fairest empire that had every dominated the earth. Inevitably, it would fall. Empires always did. But we were lucky, you said. We got to participate in the most fascinating social experiment ever attempted.

  Lionel Shriver

  Fall, United States, Lucky

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.37, Counterpoint Press

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• It's when most of the guests have gone that the party really gets interesting - peering under the table and into the bath to see who's stayed and what shape they're in. It is then that those who are still conscious divulge things you had not known before: sometimes about themselves, sometimes about other people and sometimes about you. It does not necessarily make pleasant hearing but it is always fascinating. In the relaxed atmosphere, in the wake of the hubbub, they unwind and grow confidential - nay, indiscreet. If they are not already, they end up as your closest friends.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Party, Interesting, People

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• I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.

  Harrison Ford

  Drama, Exercise, Self

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• The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.

  Margaret Mead

  Cities, Childhood, Adults

  MARGARET MEAD (1930). “GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA”

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• Make it a point not to be over-fascinating.

  Martial

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• A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Beautiful, Mean, Hands

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• Blindsight is excellent. It's state-of-the-art science fiction: smart, dark and it grabs you by the throat from page one. Like a C J Cherryh book it makes you feel the danger of the hostile environment (or lack of one) out there. And it plays with some fascinating possibilities in human development, and some disconcerting ideas about human consciousness. What else can I say? Thanks for giving me the privilege of reading this.

  Neal Asher

  Art, Book, Reading

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• The fascinating thing about standard economic stories is exactly that: they assume that everybody wants that kind of closure. That all human relations are forms of exchange, because if everything is an exchange then it's true that we're both equals. We walk up, I give you something, you give me something, and we walk away. Or I give you something, you don't give me something right now, and you owe me. So if we have any ongoing relationships at all, it's because somebody is in debt.

  David Graeber

  Giving, Stories, Ongoing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I played upright bass. I wanted to write great tunes, play the bass, be a band leader, and smoke a big funny pipe like Charlie Mingus. So I went out and bought the pipe when I was around 18 or 19 years old. You know even women smoke a pipe in Glasgow. I worked with Carla Bley and she smoked a pipe, which I find fascinating.

  Jack Bruce

  Writing, Years, Play

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• It's an incredible education [for the movie J. Edgar Hoover] . It was like I did a college course on J. Edgar Hoover but not knowing and understanding the history and reading the books, but understanding what motivated this man was the most fascinating part of the research.

  Dustin Lance Black

  Book, Reading, College

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• ...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating molds which appeared one by one on the slowly disintegrating mass of horse-dung. Microscopic molds are both very beautiful and absorbingly interesting. The rapid growth of their spores, the way they live on each other, the manner in which the different forms come and go, is so amazing and varied that I believe a man could spend his life and not exhaust the forms or problems contained in one plate of manure.

  David Fairchild

  Beautiful, Horse, Believe

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• I find it fascinating to think about what the world is going to be like when people won't talk anymore.

  Beth Henley

  Thinking, People, World

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• The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an unknown that we may let its ideologists call Socialism the Communist dictators have produced a brutal approximation of monopoly Capitalism, a system that has all the disadvantages of our own, with none of the palliatives which come to us from surviving competition and from the essential division of economic and political power which has so far made it possible for the humane traditions of the Western world to continue.

  John Dos Passos

  Effort, Political, Competition

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• Sometimes it comes out in what I call tricksy behavior. That's not always easy to deal with, but it's fascinating. The key thing is to make sure that somebody's tricks don't trip up somebody else.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Keys, Sometimes, Easy

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 19, 2011.

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