Fascinating Quotes - Page 6

• Tennis is a battle of the minds, just as much as it is a battle of playing ability. Trying to expose your opponent's weaknesses is one of the most vital and fascinating facets of tennis.

  Sue Barker

  Tennis, Mind, Battle

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• I just feel like it's fascinating to me just watching my own family, seeing my cousins have children here, seeing the generations go on, and seeing how people are still very connected to their home, but are actually, of course, Americans too. That sort of a hybrided sense of self is something that I yearn to see more of expressed.

  Danai Gurira

  Cousin, Children, Home

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you see what goes on in Iraq on a daily basis - more people dying in car bombings - you almost brush it aside after a while. To actually comprehend the human tragedy of these events is overwhelming. We see so many images, but there's always the sense, for Americans, that it's not in our backyard. That's another reason why the war in Bosnia was so fascinating; because it really was in Europe's backyard. It was in Europe. And they didn't do anything about it for years. It took the Americans to end that war, really. That's a shame.

  Richard Shepard

  War, Years, Europe

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• The dictionary has been in the making for several decades, and the result is well worth the wait. MacLean and those who worked with her have consulted with Iñupiaq speakers from across Alaska's North Slope to compile a comprehensive collection of word stems, along with postbases, grammatical endings, and an array of other valuable material. . . . This dictionary will prove fascinating for anyone interested in the Iñupiat and their language.

  Lawrence Kaplan

  Alaska, Waiting, Language

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• I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and ceremonies.

  Bitsie Tulloch

  Latin, Thinking, Culture

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• I like the sense of the road passing my eyes. It's always a fascinating experience to come into a new city...the sense of the people changing, the food changing, everything changing, the art.

  Greg Lake

  Art, Eye, Cities

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• Because all the movies that we tell ourselves we can't make - ballets, westerns, dramas, everything that are the hardest things to make - those are the movies that are not only winning awards which is fantastic, but also those movies that are commercial. We won't see a fascinating season like this for a while.

  Amy Pascal

  Drama, Winning, Awards

  Source: deadline.com

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• It's a fascinating time, I think. I do believe that with all the qualifications I've said - [such as] the uncertain accuracy of the web - nonetheless the access to speeches, documents is unparalleled with the ease of gathering information. If I had had that access when I was an editor or coming up, it would have made my life so much easier. As it was, everything took so much longer.

  Harold Evans

  Believe, Thinking, Editors

  "Harold Evans Sees Bright Future for Print-on-Demand Newspapers". Interview with Mark Glaser, mediashift.org. October 29, 2009.

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• People are kinda still a bit puritanical, perhaps. People don't expect a woman to feel so open, in a way, about her sexuality onscreen, and they probably find it fascinating. I think more actors are doing it and being open to that and not being afraid of it, so it's becoming less of a thing.

  Maria Bello

  Thinking, People, Actors

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. June 10, 2011.

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• I have, and do sometimes, work with other media. But there is something about the physical activity and the directness of painting that I find fascinating. I am very attracted to the materiality of paintings and the visual phenomena of hue and value.

  Stephen Beal

  Media, Hue, Painting

  Interview with Jason-Louise Graham, jasonlouise-graham.squarespace.com. November 19, 2010.

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• It's amazing to completely focus on something for four, five or six months, have it completely consume your life and be constantly thinking about somebody else's set of circumstances and how they would react to something. I find it fascinating. It's rewarding and on a professional and personal level.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Thinking, Focus, Six Months

  "Inception - Leonardo DiCaprio interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I take pens and I write on the inside of my arm. When I'm with people and somebody says a really fascinating anecdote, or fact, or phrase, I'll write it on the inside of my arm. At the end of the day, I'll take the very best things that are on my arm and I'll copy them into a notebook that I always carry and only when the weather is absolutely terrible will I really key the very best of that notebook into the computer. At that point, it's all sort of censored twice - only the best things go from the arm to the book and only the best things go from the book to the computer.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Notebook, Writing, Weather

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• What is a human-like droid that operates from a place of free will and has been designed to have a soul? That's fascinating stuff that you just can't quite comprehend quickly. It's not like playing a fireman with a wife and kid. You can gauge where that's going to go and what's going to happen, and you can talk to other people who have done it.

  Michael Ealy

  Kids, Wife, People

  "Michael Ealy Talks ALMOST HUMAN, Connection to His Character, Finding His Performance, Approaching the Humor, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 8, 2013.

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• It's fascinating how all of us, everyday, rely - at some point, to some extent, for some reason - on faith in our life. Whether it's God or not, or "Please help me!"

  Kathleen Turner

  Everyday, Helping, Reason

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• (The Weakest Link) is fascinating program. They ask a bunch of people questions and they keep getting rid of the dumbest person, so just the smartest person is left. It is kind of the opposite way we elect a president.

  Jay Leno

  Opposites, People, President

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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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• Pavel Palazchenko has given us a well-written, inside account of Gorbachev's and Shevardnadze's diplomacy. Remarkably objective, it is full of insights, makes fascinating reading, and will also be a prime source for scholars long into the future.

  Jack F. Matlock, Jr.

  Reading, Long, Gorbachev

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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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• I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

  Anatole France

  Book, Reading, Easy

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.6, Anatole France

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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 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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• What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Brain, Doe, Chemicals

  Ursula K Le Guin (2014). “The Lathe of Heaven”, p.41, Diversion Books

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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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• 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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• I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Lost Youth, Ideas

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.237

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