Hooked Quotes - Page 2

• The first film I can remember seeing on TV was 'The Brides of Dracula.' I was instantly hooked.

  Mark Gatiss

  Firsts, Tvs, Remember

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• I was a tomboy growing up and then fell into the world of theatre and musical theatre. A girlfriend introduced me to yoga in college and I was hooked. I didn't really know anything about it except that it was the highlight of my week. I ended up graduating from the University of Virginia and moving to Los Angeles where I could continue acting and do a yoga teacher training. I went from practicing once or twice a week to several hours everyday. I loved it.

  Kathryn Budig

  Teacher, Girlfriend, Growing Up

  ORIGIN Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Jobs, Writing, Beer

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• When I was young I was very interested in science and technology, and my dad brought home the first computer. I played pac man and I was hooked! By learning to create technology, girls learn to speak up.

  Regina Agyare

  Girl, Dad, Home

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• I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all.

  Richard Lamm

  Thinking, People, Quality

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• I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.

  M. Ward

  Watches, Want, Tvs

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• I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.

  Robert Winston

  Watches, Detectives, Spirals

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• Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Men, Wife, Scary

  Theodore Dreiser (1965). “Theodore Dreiser; His Autobiography”

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• I've become totally hooked on Cellex-C. It's an anti-ageing serum and is fantastic. I use it morning and evening and even on my hands, where it has faded those dark spots.

  Joan Collins

  Morning, Dark, Hands

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• I love to box. I once took a kickboxing class in college and got totally hooked.

  Sophia Bush

  College, Class, Kickboxing

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• If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.

  Jeff Bridges

  Lists, Okay, Like Me

  Interview with Jen Chaney, voices.washingtonpost.com. December 16, 2010.

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• I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.

  Jeff Bridges

  Thinking, Hook, Want

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• If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

  Jack Black

  Band, Made, Runners

  FaceBook post by Jack Black from Aug 24, 2013

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• I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Mother, Ballet, Opera

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• Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Goal, Noble, Loan

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• I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked.

  Dennis Quaid

  Golf, Feelings, One Day

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• I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

  Len Wein

  Dad, Book, Kids

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• I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.

  George Will

  Sports, Baseball, Father

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• It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best.

  Leo Kottke

  Jobs, Thinking, Would Be

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• Growing up on stage, I was introduced to makeup at a young age and I will never forget the first time I tried on a L'Oreal Paris iconic lipstick - it was instant glamour and I've been hooked ever since.

  Lea Michele

  Growing Up, Makeup, Paris

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• I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child

  Stephen Stills

  Children, Kids, College

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• I tried Botox, but I don't want to be hooked on that stuff.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Botox, Want, Stuff

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• Of course, in principle, they're against it. We are the ones that keep asking them what they think about it. I think their basic concern is a land-based missile defense of Taiwan hooked into the American communications and other systems, which in effect would make Taiwan then an outpost of the United States. That is a concern they frequently express. A missile defense shield of the United States, while they may not like it, it is not a big obstacle to our relationship.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Communication, Thinking, Land

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Redemption means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong. So I think a lot of people get hooked on drugs and when they get over that addiction they go out and they try to talk to kids and they try to work in rehab centers.

  Ice T

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was not a vampire or werewolf fan at all. I'd never even heard of the series. I auditioned for the role, and as soon as I got it, I started reading the books. I'm not a reader, but I really did get hooked on them.

  Taylor Lautner

  Book, Reading, Vampire

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

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