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• Thing is, just the title alone will get some people interested: everyone has heard of Alcatraz, and they know that really bad people were there. Bad people are intriguing.

  Jorge Garcia

  People, Bad People

  "Alcatraz: Cast Interviews". girliegossip.com. March 19, 2012.

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• I think people stop themselves from doing the things they want to do. I just think you never know how long you're going to be around so you might as well do the things that are intriguing. Nobody really cares anyway so you have to do what makes you happy.

  Gina Gershon

  Thinking, Long, People

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. April 8, 2004.

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• I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.

  Ed Harris

  People, Matter, Film

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• If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Thinking, Interesting, Brain

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• Honestly, I don’t believe in menswear. I focus on what pieces are most timeless, transcendent, match my lifestyle, remain remarkable, and command intriguing attention across the room at an art gallery.

  Janelle Monae

  Art, Believe, Focus

  "Janelle Monae Talks New CoverGirl Gig, Signature Style And Being Fearlessly Beautiful". Interview with Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Stories, Mechanic, Human Condition

  Interview With Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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• David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me.

  Leona Lewis

  Influence, Bigs, Bowie

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

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• Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.

  Camilla Lackberg

  Lonely, Reading, Home

  "Camilla Lackberg's top 10 Swedish crime novels" by Camilla Lackberg, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.

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• The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.

  Greg Kinnear

  Character, Thinking, Elements

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• President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.

  Jay Inslee

  Compelling Reason, Focus, President

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• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

  Patrick Henry

  Giving Up, 4th Of July, Jealous

  Virginia's U.S. Constitution ratification convention, June 5, 1788.

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• Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Memories, Philosophical, Guardian

  "On the Orator". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 5, 55 BCE.

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• I've always been intrigued by cutout silhouettes. They are so intriguing, so poetic-the shadow of a soul. They tell everything about a character and they are open to be filled with one's own imagination.

  Ann Demeulemeester

  Character, Imagination, Soul

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• Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.

  Natalie Dormer

  Character, Way, Modern

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• I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.

  Barbara Hershey

  Thinking, Hands, Australia

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• In a deep moment of love, thinking stops. The moment is so intriguing, the moment is so tremendously powerful, the moment is so intensely alive, that thinking stops. You are simply in awe, a great wonder surrounds you.

  Rajneesh

  Powerful, Thinking, Alive

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• Perhaps most intriguing of all is that it is possible to photograph what is impossible for the human eye to see - cumulative time.

  Michael Kenna

  Photography, Eye, Impossible

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• The most intriguing thing about the present moment is that it never grows old.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moments, Grows, Present Moment

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• Instead of condemning people, let's try to understand them. Let's try to figure out why they do what they do. That's a lot more profitable and intriguing than criticism; and it breeds sympathy, tolerance and kindness.

  Dale Carnegie

  Kindness, People, Tolerance

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.23, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• With his new CD 'Tactiles' Liberty Ellman emerges as one of the most intriguing, albeit unorthodox, guitarists on the New York scene today. An album of original, esoteric compositions marked by dense polyrhythms, dissonant, angular lines and an organic logic that ties the whole thing together in brilliant fashion.

  Bill Milkowski

  Fashion, New York, Cds

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• The job is not to succeed but fail more interesting than the last time—- in a more subtle fashion or in a more intriguing way.

  T. J. Jagodowski

  Fashion, Jobs, Interesting

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• I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.

  Adam Garcia

  Dog, Thinking, Feet

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• If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads to work with. The challenge comes with deciding what to cut and what to keep.

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Character, Cutting, Interesting

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• I like playing characters that are complex, that are intriguing, that come from left field, that do things that are unexpected. I don't like people who just follow one line and that's it - that's why I could never be in a sitcom, I don't think. They're not intriguing enough for me.

  Pete Postlethwaite

  Character, Thinking, People

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• Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then. We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness. Jealousy we understood and thought natural--a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.

  Jim Morrison

  Vanity, Envy, Feelings

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