Fascination Quotes - Page 7

• I think there is a fascination with choral music in general.

  Ed Droste

  Thinking, Choral Music

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• That's always been like a fascination to me - watching my family, three sisters and a brother and all growing up basically in the same situation and each one being so totally different and going on to completely different areas and directions. But for me to go into psychoanalysis really steadily, would be putting too much energy into trying to figure out why I am the way I am... Basically this is how I am and it's alright and I don't want to know why I'm this way.

  Jessica Lange

  Brother, Growing Up, Trying

  "New Again: Jessica Lange". Interview with Bob Colacello, Andy Warhol, Robert Hayes, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 29, 2016.

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• The consciousness of one's physical self had to be repressed because, socially, the female body was so visible, an ongoing provocation and incitement of specular curiosity and fascination.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Self, Curiosity, Ongoing

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but my academic involvement with Burroughs was entirely due to my tutor at Oxford, Peter Conrad. I was discussing with him the idea of staying on to do graduate work and when I tossed the name of Burroughs into the conversation - well, he let it fall loudly onto the floor, and proceeded to cross himself as if warding off an evil spirit. Since I was very ambivalent about an academic career in any case, that decided it for me.

  Oliver Harris

  Book, Fall, Names

  Source: bigother.com

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• I'd once been fascinated by his legend - all the stories I'd heard before I met him. Now I can feel that same sense of fascination returning. I picture his face, so beautiful even after pain and torture and grief, his blue eyes bright and sincere. I'm ashamed to admit that I enjoyed my brief time with him in his prison cell. His voice can make me forget about all the details running through my mind, bringing with it emotions of desire, or fear instead, sometimes even anger, but always triggering something. Something that wasn't there before.

  Marie Lu

  Beautiful, Running, Pain

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• In a way, there's nothing more intimate than a piece of jewelry. A painting is hung on somebody's wall. You put a piece of furniture in your home. But jewelry is worn by a person, so there is a fascination with the history of a piece.

  Simon de Pury

  Wall, Home, Pieces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think women have brought a lot of life back to the sport-first, because a lot of people doubted women could actually do it well. Two, part of it is that old fascination some people have in watching athletes risk injury to win.

  Stacy Dragila

  Sports, Athlete, Winning

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• I can watch anybody all day long if they're really doing what they're doing. I have a fascination with human behavior, watching people talk, when they pick at their face or how they hold their hand or if they're listening to you, if they're not listening to you.

  Scoot McNairy

  Hands, Long, People

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1, 2014.

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• I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made me feel that the world around me is a much fuller, much more wonderful, much more awesome place than I ever realized it was. That has been, for me, the wonder of science. That's why science fiction retains its compelling fascination for people. That's why the move of science fiction into biology is so intriguing. I think that science has got a wonderful story to tell.

  Simon Jenkins

  Moving, Book, Thinking

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• People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.

  Mel Gibson

  Scary Stories, People, Want

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• Embracing conflict can become a joy when we know that irritation and frustration can lead to growth and fascination.

  Thomas Crum

  Frustration, Irritation, Joy

  Thomas F. Crum, Thomas Crum (1998). “The Magic of Conflict: Turning a Life of Work Into a Work of Art”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• What I really found was that the one similarity between Covert Affairs and Fair Game is a deep love and admiration and fascination with the home life of a spy.

  Doug Liman

  Home, Deep Love, Games

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. November 3, 2010.

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• For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

  Rachel Holmes

  Biographies, Individual

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• What I can't completely understand is most other people's fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies. Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?

  Alan Alda

  Thinking, Names, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Growing up in New Orleans, my mom and dad were churchgoers. I would go to church with them. Also, I was going to a Catholic school so I had a fascination with the Catholic Church mainly because, in my mind, (their services) didn't take as long. I was bouncing in between my mom's Baptist church, which was called Second Zion Baptist, and going to a Catholic Church.

  Avery Johnson

  Mom, Dad, Growing Up

  "A conversation with New Jersey Nets head coach Avery Johnson". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. December 2011.

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• From my student days I found him a compelling and fascinating, though often puzzling, figure. It's a lifelong fascination now and I don't expect that to stop! His vision of God, God's faithfulness, God's purposes and so on is so much bigger and richer than almost any subsequent Christian thinker has ever managed. In addition, I have always loved ancient history, especially the history of the early Roman empire, and of course Paul fits right into that.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Vision, God's Faithfulness

  Source: kenwytsma.com

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• Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die.

  John Wayne

  Art, Mistake, Hate

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• The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

  Alain de Botton

  Book, Secret, Maps

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• When you are raised to believe that anything having to do with sex is forbidden and taboo, then of course that's all you want to know about. That becomes your complete and utter fascination. That is the surest way to interest a child.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sex, Children, Believe

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• By all odds, earliest man, so naked to the elements and to deadly enemies, should have existed in a state of constant shock. We find him instead the only lighthearted being in a deadly serious universe.... He alone, with childish carelessness, tinkered and played, and exerted himself more in the pursuit of superfluities than of necessities. Yet the tinkering and playing, and the fascination with the nonessential, were a chief source of the inventiveness which enabled man to prevail over better-equipped and more-purposeful animals.

  Eric Hoffer

  Animal, Men, Odds

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• Fantasy consists in a morbid fascination with unrealities, which secretly transforms itself into a desire to make them real. Imagination is a form of intellectual control, which presents us with the image of unrealities in order that we should understand and feel distanced from them. In imagination we dominate; in fantasy, we are dominated.

  Roger Scruton

  Real, Order, Imagination

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• What I find difficult about Buddhism, though it is also one of its significant fascinations, is the focus on what is immediately and physically present. To me, this seems a denial of the imagination, and the imagination is very important to me.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Buddhism, Imagination, Focus

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• There's somewhat of a real fascination with American bands and American mythology in London.

  Craig Finn

  Real, Band, London

  "The Hold Steady". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. May 17, 2010.

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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 think Paris Hilton is really our generation's Marilyn Monroe. She's the image of the youth today. There's a real fascination with Paris, ranging on the obsessive. I'm repulsed by her, but because of her notoriety, she has access to an audience.

  Matt Tong

  Real, Thinking, Our Generation

  Source: pitchfork.com

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