Fascination Quotes - Page 15

• I think that there are these two very different sides to my relation to the Bible: one, my professional life; the other, a more private concern, interest and fascination with the Bible.

  Hershel Shanks

  Thinking, Two, Different

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• I must be honest and say that I was under the fascination of films. I was fascinated by all films, even the words of them. If I was to do a more-precise analysis of the situation, I have to admit that I was more entertained by the bad films than the good ones. Because when something is beautiful, it is there; it is finished; it is done. It doesn't have to be touched or be worked upon.

  Sergio Leone

  Beautiful, Analysis, Done

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• Initially it was a fascination for Tolkienesque Fantasy, and role-playing games, with time I realized that it was the mythological elements that fascinated me the most, so I moved more and more in that direction.

  Varg Vikernes

  Playing Games, Role Playing, Roles

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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• My relationship to Brooklyn is probably the relationship that any 40-year-old man has to his hometown, which is that this is where I live, this what I know, yet it's different, it's changed. My fascination with the city has maybe subsided and now it's just where I'm from, where I live.

  El-P

  Men, Years, Cities

  Source: www.complex.com

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• As a kid, I had a real fascination with perverse, off-color, and kind of risky things, and I also had a very sanctimonious Catholic, purist side.

  George Saunders

  Real, Kids, Color

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.

  Wole Soyinka

  Humanity, Theatre, Sake

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.

  Susan Orlean

  Boredom, Flying, Training

  "In Flight" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. October 21, 2010.

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• There is evil prowling in the world - it shows up in our movies, video games and online fascinations, and finds its way into vulnerable hearts and minds.

  Rick Perry

  Heart, Games, Evil

  "Craziest Anti-Obama Gun Reactions" by Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. January 18, 2013.

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• I have a strange fascination with the Midwest. I'm waiting to find out that my parents are actually from the Midwest. I grew up in Beverly Hills, up the street, and I just feel comfortable there. I've shot in Minneapolis, in Detroit, in St. Louis, in Omaha - they would say they're the Plains, not the Midwest - and I love it.

  Jason Reitman

  Waiting, Parent, Beverly Hills

  "INTERVIEW: Jason Reitman Made Unmakeable Young Adult for $12 Million". Interview with Anne Thompson, www.indiewire.com. December 5, 2011.

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• Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire to make the risky trip to the underworld and to bring something or someone back from the dead.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, Desire, Narrative

  Margaret Atwood (2002). “Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing”, p.156, Cambridge University Press

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• That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hero, People, No Fear

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• Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Details, Holiness, Accurate

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “I Have Landed”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a child forever, and I think you can. I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.

  Johnny Depp

  Beautiful, Children, Fun

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

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• Whoever wants the "I" to yield up its mysterious and tremendous secret must stop it from looking perpetually in the mirror, must stop the little ego's fascination with its own image.

  Paul Brunton

  Yield, Mirrors, Ego

  Paul Brunton (1987). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: The ego. From birth to rebirth”

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• Though they live far from the coast, they retain a great fascination and passion for the ocean. The sound of crashing waves, the smell of salt air, it affects them deeply and has inspired many of their lovliest songs. There is one that tells of this love, if you want to hear it.

  Christopher Paolini

  Song, Ocean, Passion

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.210, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• America's the great conundrum and the great dream and the great fascination: the new land, the new world, the new temple, the new city, and the great mess. The most handguns, bombs, weaponry, violence, the cop of the world etcetera. All the contradictions. Mediocrity versus something like indigenous jazz, one of the most evolved sophisticated musical forms on the planet.

  Anne Waldman

  Dream, Land, Cities

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love

  Andy Warhol

  Kind, Certain, Persons

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.40, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The beachcomber goes looking for trouble, everything he finds is a sign of trouble. The writer is the same; without trouble he has nothing to work with, so he picks over the tide line, over the bits and pieces of people's lives with grim fascination.

  Tim Winton

  Beach, Nature, People

  Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.66, Penguin UK

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• Living in the limelight: the universal dream for those who wish to SEEM. Those who wish to BE, must put aside the alienation, get on with the fascination, the real relation, the underlying theme.

  Neil Peart

  Dream, Real, Wish

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• My fascination for studies proved highly beneficial, it assisted the development of my aesthetic understanding of chess, and improved my endgame play.

  Vasily Smyslov

  Play, Understanding, Development

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• Paranoia imposes its own vision on the external world; it differs from other kinds of visionary experience in that the paranoid wants others to share his view—even insists on it. Paranoia is very like poetic creativity. This accounts for my fascination with certain people in whom this state of mind was evident: ‘characters’ met by chance, whose words and gestures would haunt me for years until, finally, in a poem I was able to dispel them.

  Louis Simpson

  Creativity, Character, Views

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• As far back as I can remember, the radio held a special fascination for me.

  Charley Pride

  Special, Radio, Remember

  Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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• I don't understand what people's fascination is with [our] relationship. If we're in the same city, we go out... Sometimes when I'm in L.A., I stay at his [Ben Affleck's] house. But it's not what people think. We're not together, I swear on my life.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Thinking, Cities, People

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• This fascination with the human face has never left me... Every face I see seems to hide and sometimes, fleetingly, to reveal the mystery of another human being... Capturing this revelation became the goal and passion of my life.

  Philippe Halsman

  Passion, Goal, Faces

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• My fascination with images open 24 hrs. is based on the complex interlocking if disparate facts heated pool that have no respect for grammar. The form then Denver 39 is second hand to nothing. The work then has a chance to electric service become its own cliché. Luggage. This is the inevitable fate fair ground of any inanimate object freightways by this I mean anything that does not have inconsistency as a possibility built in.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Mean, Fate, Hands

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