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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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• I'm the music guy, I get to wear the music hat, but being able to be that guy in the room is a thrill at this level and caliber.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Guy, Levels, Able

  Source: deadline.com

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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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• I go out and play not for the numbers, but for a chance to win and the thrill of playing in front of a packed crowd.

  Johnny Damon

  Winning, Play, Numbers

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• I found a guy in the Bronx who had an old plywood Kay bass that he wanted $75 for. He held it for me, and I gave him a few dollars every time I could scrape some extra money together. Meanwhile I borrowed or rented basses for jam sessions and paying jobs. It was a great thrill when I finally took possession of my Kay.

  Bill Crow

  Jobs, Guy, Together

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• There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.

  Mira Sorvino

  School, Play, Roller Coaster

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• Everyone's different, but it was fun for me to work with Garth Hudson. He's from 'The Band.' They are a massive influence, that was a big thrill. He's completely out of his mind.

  Teddy Thompson

  Fun, Mind, Different

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• So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf,
  Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves.

  Ogden Nash

  Thinking, Guests, Nails

  Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

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• Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

  Sadie Jones

  Art, Light, Acquisition

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• Gangsters live for the action. The closer to death, the nearer to the heated coil of the moment, the more alive they feel. Most would rather succumb to a barrage of bullets from a roomful of sworn enemies than to the debilitation of old age, dying the death of the feeble. A gangster becomes as addicted to the thrill of the battle and the potential to die in the midst of it as he does to he more attractive lures in his path. In his world, the potential for death exists every day. The better gangsters don't shy away from such a dreaded possibility but rather find comfort in its proximity.

  Lorenzo Carcaterra

  Enemy, Dying, Age

  Lorenzo Carcaterra (2002). “Gangster”, p.93, Ballantine Books

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