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• Give me a thrill, says the reader,
  Give me a kick;
  I don't care how you succeed, or
  What subject you pick.

  Philip Larkin

  Reading, Giving, Care

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.153, Faber & Faber

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• One of many joyful moments with BB King was him letting me play 'Lucille.' ...The thrill will never be gone.

  Stevie Wonder

  Kings, Play, Gone

  FaceBook post by Stevie Wonder from Jun 19, 2015

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• The actual breakthrough in the privacy of the studio, when one dares to apply paint in a new manner, is a solitary thrill, dependent upon no one else.

  Mary Carroll Nelson

  Originality, Privacy, Paint

  Mary Carroll Nelson, Beth Ames Swartz (1984). “Connecting: the art of Beth Ames Swartz”, Northland Pub

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• I think the most important thing that I can offer young musicians is once you get up on the bandstand, understanding that you're now asking this prayer to come through you. When you think about music it's got to be that way. Just the thrill of being able to play another note, not to win anything or get a trophy.

  Bobby Hutcherson

  Prayer, Winning, Thinking

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• I am a huge sports fan and spend a lot of my time away from work watching sports, going to sporting events, stuff like that. So it is a big thrill to see these people who I have so much respect for and to find out that they're all really fun, super-nice people. It's very exciting.

  Will Forte

  Sports, Fun, Nice

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• Every year is different. I'm not getting any younger trying to keep it going. It's always a challenge. It's like a boxer going into a ring. You never can tell what's going to work and what's not going to work until you're in action and everything is going on around you. It's very intense and always a challenge and always a thrill.

  Hank Williams III

  Years, Challenges, Trying

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• I want my movies to be commercial, fun thrill rides but I also want them to have substance to them. The fun part is knowing how to roll up your sleeves and get it done.

  Ric Roman Waugh

  Fun, Knowing, Substance

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• People just like the thrill of anything. Dangerous things and dark things are exciting. Like as a kid, I knew I wasn't going to get killed if I went into the Haunted House but you kind of feel like you are. And when it comes out the track the other side, it's like, "we're still alive"! And I find it really funny when adults get really scared because I've not been really scared since I saw Jaws when I was a little kid. I just think people like the thrill of it, they like to feel like they accomplished something, that they survived the movie.

  Rob Zombie

  Kids, Dark, Thinking

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• I'm not a thrill seeker. I'm not looking to get kidnapped. I'm not looking to get a shot at. I've been shot at. I didn't like it.

  Henry Rollins

  Shots, Kidnapped, Seekers

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• People often assume I assume I am a thrill seeker, but I am not. I do not enjoy roller coasters, and you won't find me bungee-jumping. ... It is a disadvantage that my pursuits are inherently dangerous. A large part of my effort is to reduce risk.

  Steve Fossett

  Jumping, People, Safety

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• What a thrill to be able to say that you had a contribution in the life of someone - a young person, perhaps, who is trying to take a look at the possibility of their own lives and find out what they are good at and you can help steer their career.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Careers, Trying, Looks

  Source: www.afb.org

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• People don't grow up to become thrill junkies - they're born like that.

  George Jung

  Growing Up, People, Born

  Interview with Chris Simunek, hightimes.com. August 5, 2015.

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• What I collect? Interesting jobs. Always to my thrill and excitement, but ultimately to my exhaustion, I collect interesting jobs. If an interesting job comes along, I take it; that's why I do so many things. I'm lucky to be able to.

  John Hodgman

  Jobs, Interesting, Lucky

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• My only thrill is self inflicted hickies.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Self

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• Determination is number one! You have to be trained physically. You have to have a good mental attitude - wanting it and enjoying the thrill of going fast. There is a certain level of aggression with competing at professional racing level but you have to control it as it is a high reaction, fast sport.

  Liz Halliday

  Sports, Determination, Attitude

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The biggest thrill I ever had was in 1969, when they held day at Yankee Stadium.

  Mickey Mantle

  Yankees, Yankee Stadium, Stadiums

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• Love is not simply a feeling of romantic excitement; it is more than a desire to marry a potential partner; it goes beyond intense sexual attraction; it exceeds the thrill at having "captured" a highly desirable social prize. Real love is an expression of the deepest appreciation for another human being; it is awareness of his or her needs and longings- past, present and future. It is unselfish, giving and caring.

  James Dobson

  Appreciation, Real, Caring

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• The thrill of doing visual effects doesn't exist.

  Evan Goldberg

  Visual Effects, Visuals, Effects

  "Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg interview: This Is The End". Interview with Caroline Preece, www.denofgeek.com. June 27, 2013.

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• Rich people don't have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially. I am not surprised many of them understand literature only as an ornament. Life is an ornament to them, relationships are ornaments, their “work” is but a flimsy, pretty ornament meant to momentarily thrill and capture attention. Why didn't I reread my F. Scott Fitzgerald sooner? I might have saved myself some time.

  Sergio Troncoso

  People, Life And Death, Scott Fitzgerald

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• But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must content itself with moving, exciting and amusing the reader. ...I do not think that there is any (short story) that will give the reader that thrill, that rapture, that fruitful energy which great art can produce.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Moving, Thinking

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• The Moulin Rouge is, like the West Village and the Nasdaq, one of those places that people who don't like to take risks come to for the thrill of being on the spot where risks once were taken.

  Michael Lewis

  Taken, People, Risk

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• Sometimes an old idea gets relegated to the back of the line in the mad delight of a new idea, one you've never had before, and that you write fast in the thrill of the new. No rules. Just stories, and you tell as many of them as you can.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Ideas, Mad

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• When such men, who are beyond hope and fear, begin in their dim minds to see the source their woes, it may be an evil time for those who have wronged them. The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Strong, Men, Weak Man

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.2209, Delphi Classics

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• There's kind of this unequaled thrill of playing a half-finished song, it's kind of sense of slight embarrassment; like you're blushing. I like doing that. I did that with "Eyeoneye" and it was almost a curse on the song for a while; I debuted it when it was half-finished in a very public way

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Half, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

  Irving Stone

  Men, Trying, Danger

  Irving Stone (1981). “Irving Stone, three complete novels”, Random House Value Publishing

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