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• I write because I am curious. I am curious about me.

  Pat Mora

  Writing

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• As a culture, we believe that if we kill something, we've killed the issue. That's why so many books end with death, why so many plays end with death, because it's full resolution. I'm always curious to know what happens after Romeo and Juliet die. In a way, that's the beginning of the story. Maybe beyond the story is even better.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Believe, Play

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• It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

  Mark Twain

  Interesting, Nickels, Fussy

  Mark Twain (2010). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.177, Univ of California Press

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• Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. Not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. We are no longer in art concerned with the type. It is with the exception that we have to do. I cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, I need hardly say. Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Memories, Passion

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.731, GENERAL PRESS

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• It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Facts, Opinion, Illusion

  Elbert Hubbard (1907). “Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers ...: John Wesley. Henry George. Garibaldi. Richard Cobden. Thomas Paine. John Knox”

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• For all men have but a little while to live and none knows his fate thereafter. So that a man possesses nothing certainly save a brief loan of his body: and yet the body of man is capable of much curious pleasure.

  James Branch Cabell

  Fate, Men, Body

  James Branch Cabell (2012). “Jurgen”, p.124, Courier Corporation

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• Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.That's why you hire them, so why tell somebody first what it is you want? I'm more curious to see what they bring to it and then be inspired by it and say: "OK, what if you tried this?" or "What would happen if ... ?"

  Steve Buscemi

  Character, What If, Want

  "Buscemi Remakes Film of Slain Filmmaker". Interview with Jake Coyle, www.washingtonpost.com. July 12, 2007.

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• To be a fan is to be curious, and to be curious is to have openness... Part of being a fan is to allow 360 degrees of experience - to immerse without judgment. It's like a really fearless step forward into new experience. There's something that feels very timeless about fandom.

  Carrie Brownstein

  New Experiences, Fearless, Fans

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• I've only made short films and two features, which are very different. One is a surreal comedy, and the other is a period tragedy. I'm curious to know what misconceptions this could trigger

  Sophie Barthes

  Two, Tragedy, Different

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The curious thing about that moustache and goatee is that when you look at the Mona Lisa it becomes a man. It is not a woman disguised as a man; it is a real man, and that was my discovery, without realising it at the time.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Real, Men, Discovery

  Marcel Duchamp (2002). “Marcel Duchamp”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• The making of adaptable, curious, open, questioning people has nothing to do with vocational training and everything to do with humanistic and scientific studies.

  Neil Postman

  People, Training, Study

  Neil Postman (2011). “The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School”, p.32, Vintage

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• I try to tell student writers to read as much as possible, not only literature but philosophy, theory, and to form obsessions. There's a big taboo in fiction creative writing workshops against using the self at all, and I think I try to encourage students to write the self, but to connect the self to something larger, which is to be this thinking, seeing, searching, eternally curious person, and that writing can come out of investigating and trying to understand confusion, and doubts, and obsessions.

  Kate Zambreno

  Philosophy, Writing, Thinking

  "The naming is a political act, the writing is a political act, a revolt against disappearance". Interview With Noah Charney, logger.believermag.com. November 3, 2014.

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• One of the things I prize most about being a writer is its license - you could even say injunction - to be curious, to follow anything anywhere and see where it might take you, how it can transform you, whether in content or form.

  Gregory Allen Howard

  Might, Form, Prize

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• I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and I just became more curious over time.

  John Collison

  School, Thinking, People

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• A Nation of Outsiders is smart, insightful, and politically astute. Grace Hale's analysis of the 'romance of the outsider' is necessary reading for anyone who has ever wondered about the meaning of our national obsession with 'authenticity'-as well as for anyone who might be curious about what Jerry Falwell and Holden Caulfield have in common.

  Beth Bailey

  Smart, Reading, Romance

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• This is why I respect those who are curious about God, but I beware of those who claim to find Him.

  C. J. Anderson

  Claims

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• There's always changes in the way they do that in the cinematic universe. I think, with the S.H.I.E.L.D. 2.0, you're seeing some of the first ripples of those different points of view on what S.H.I.E.L.D. should be when it's rebuilt. I'm very, very curious to know which side Coulson will end up on in that struggle.

  Clark Gregg

  Struggle, Thinking, Views

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• Doing a movie about Steve Jobs is just generally a provocative thing to do, whoever does it, and it begs a lot of questioning and skepticism only in that, what is this going to be? What am I going to be looking at? And curiosity as well. I think thats all positive in any film, because you want people to be curious about it.

  Joshua Michael Stern

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• I'm not a genius. I'm just passionately curious.

  Albert Einstein

  Genius

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• The owl is one of the most curious creatures. A bird that stays awake when the rest of the world sleeps. They can see in the dark. I find that so interesting, to be mired in reality when the rest of the world is dreaming. What does he see and what does he know that the rest of the world is missing?

  M.J. Rose

  Dream, Sleep, Dark

  M. J. Rose (2014). “Seduction: A Novel of Suspense”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• ...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.

  Jim Morrison

  America, Cameras, Coffins

  Jim Morrison (1971). “The Lords and The New Creatures”, Touchstone

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• I'm not gay, im just liberal-curious

  Kevin Rudd

  Gay

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• My research suggests that when people get rebuffed they become frustrated and angry, but they would do better to become curious about the reason for the rejection. I also found that people assume that others are like them, operating under the same knowledge, beliefs, constraints and priorities. This mirror assumption makes it easier to speculate about why others act in the way they do, but sometimes the mirror assumption is wrong.

  Gary A. Klein

  Mirrors, People, Rejection

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• Humans are born curious, creative, and intuitive.

  Ken Robinson

  Creative, Born, Humans

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• I've never dated anybody older, actually. There are so many things I'm curious about, and I'd love to be able to say, "Teach me." I want to learn from the people around me.

  Drew Barrymore

  People, Want, Able

  "Play Date with Drew". Interview with Carrie Fisher, www.glamour.com. February 28, 2007.

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