Curiosity Quotes - Page 30

• If you had told me twenty years ago that I would write a novel set in Russia, much less two, I simply wouldn't have believed you. I had no familiarity with Russia or its history, but part of what drives me as a reader, and more and more as a writer, is curiosity, the desire to explore unfamiliar terrain and inhabit alternate lives.

  Debra Dean

  Writing, Russia, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think the grotesque can inspire intimacy (it draws us in) as well as awe, like the cabinets of curiosities.

  Anna Journey

  Thinking, Inspire, Cabinets

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• I think ingenuity is part of our DNA. That plus curiosity, plus the willingness to commit.

  Gail Zappa

  Thinking, Dna, Plus

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• [My favourite are] the films of Agnes Varda, because of her sense of humor and the intimate, personal way she tells her stories. She is brave in taking creative risks, and her curiosity in others is so contagious. This brings me closer to the subjects in her films.

  Maya Goded

  Creative, Brave, Risk

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think we are living in an era of being hyper-concerned about, Is it us? Because we have this historical awareness. People really want to know: will it be us or our kids or our grandkids to live through this? We don't want it to happen, we don't want to be the ones with the poisoned water, but at the same time, I think there is this curiosity, like, Am I one of the "lucky" ones who gets to be here at the end? That's the tension I'm interested in.

  Lucy Corin

  Kids, Thinking, Water

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was brought into the curiosity of it because with Sony Pictures Classics, which bought the movie, they look into what the feedback is and base that off of how they release it, and you end up hearing the feedback and getting that early talk. So the reviews early on that were "bad reviews," they were kind of reviewing another movie.

  Don Cheadle

  Looks, Hearing, Kind

  "We talked to Don Cheadle about his new Miles Davis movie, biopics, and why he's not boycotting the Oscars". Interview with Jason Guerrasio, www.businessinsider.com. January 25, 2016.

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• Inquiry and curiosity is really important in any profession, but definitely in what I do. And in parallel you also need to be confident enough to try things. So it's a tricky thing sometimes to balance those two states.

  Cate Blanchett

  Two, Important, Trying

  "Cate Blanchett Knows You're Zooming in on Her Pores and She's Cool with It". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.marieclaire.com. February 29, 2016.

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• I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.

  David O. Russell

  Thinking, Views, Ideas

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Just out of curiosity, I wonder what makes music or culture or taste go in certain directions. Who knows what the forces are behind it.

  Beck

  Culture, Taste, Wonder

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• I am always trying to do something new and different. The first step is curiosity, questions. You pay attention to what fascinates you. If you can't shake it, there is something there.

  Dana Spiotta

  Always Trying, Firsts, Steps

  "Dana Spiotta’s Age of Innocence". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• I think there's a curiosity that can make you feel anxious as to what the world's going to make of what you're doing. It's not necessarily what you're going to get back in terms of record reviews or how people talk about your record, it's getting on the road and playing the new songs live.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Thinking, People

  "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.

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• The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.

  Juan Enriquez

  Desire, Awake

  "Big Think Interview With Juan Enriquez". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 9, 2009.

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• Bill Clinton was effective because he had that personal relationship, that this was a guy who had tremendous curiosity, which is another one of the key attributes. And he had the ability - his mind was - his mind and his heart were very well-connected. And so he genuinely empathized.

  Frank Luntz

  Heart, Keys, Guy

  "Frank Luntz: How To 'Win' With Smart Messaging". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www-s4.npr.org. March 8, 2011.

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• In the enfranchised mind of the scientific naturalist, the usual feelings of repugnance simply do not exist. Curiosity conquers prejudice.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Feelings, Mind, Usual

  W.N.P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man: & A Last Diary”, p.215, Courier Dover Publications

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• We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses and begin to see more in those things than we saw before. It raises questions, so that when peculiar little accidents happen, you ask whether there is something else at work in your life.

  James Hillman

  Oddities, Raises Questions, Peculiar

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Hold tight to the mentality of being a student, meaning hold on to curiosity and approach life as a student.

  Mahershala Ali

  Students, Approach, Mentality

  "Mahershala Ali: the 'free state of Jones'". Interview with Sam Williams, www.eurweb.com. June 24, 2016.

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• People have curiosity, they have intelligence, they have interest in understanding their peers. But producers and directors of cinema have decided that the seats in the theaters have been made to transform people's minds to lazy minds.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  People, Understanding, Mind

  "They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• People inspire me. Curiosity inspires me. Mystery inspires me.

  Mariana Klaveno

  People, Inspire, Mystery

  "Stalker’s Mariana Klaveno: Being Healthy is Part of the Job". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think something that I can't name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that kind of curiosity.

  George Saunders

  Moving, Thinking, Names

  "In Search For Answers, Author George Saunders Covers Trump Campaign". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. July 9, 2016.

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• I'm inspired by everything, really. I'm inspired by locations and travel, I'm inspired by art and music, I'm inspired by people. When my curiosity peaks and I want to know everything about the subject, I want to know how I can get more deeply involved.

  Sophia Bush

  Art, People, Location

  "Sophia Bush of NBC’s Chicago PD: On Curiosity, Collaboration, and Clean Water". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Erotic intelligence stretches far beyond a repertoire of sexual techniques. It is an intelligence that celebrates curiosity and play, the power of the imagination, and our infinite fascination with what is hidden and mysterious.

  Esther Perel

  Play, Imagination, Erotic

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• I didn't get a high school diploma. I really didn't have much of an education, which left me open to educating myself throughout my life, without the limitations on intellectual curiosity a formal education can impose. I followed what interested me.

  Elayne Boosler

  School, Intellectual, Diploma

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• Writing stretches me to my limits and affirms my potential, all while making me aware of my flaws, my mortality, and how much more I have to learn. It's a singular feeling, both spiritual and corporeal, and I like to think it sparks the same inspiration and curiosity in a child that it does in an old man.

  Kit Williamson

  Spiritual, Children, Inspiration

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• I think what inspires me or what keeps me inspired is my curiosity.

  Lela Loren

  Thinking, Inspire, Inspired

  "Actor Lela Loren: Getting grounded, sweating it out, and loving yourself". Interview with Chelsea Logan,

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• Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Travel, Heaven

  Mark Twain, Michael Barry Frank, Robert Pack Browning, Lin Salamo, Frederick Anderson, Mark Twain (1980). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume III: (1883-1891)”, p.574, Univ of California Press

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