Fascinated Quotes - Page 9

• Whenever I've been asked to be in a film, directors only want me to play myself... I'm fascinated by the thought of being an actor, but it's too hard. And I think Shakespeare-which has been suggested to me-might be a bit of a stretch.

  Tom Jones

  Thinking, Play, Might

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• I started playing violin because I was fascinated by how violin players could play so fast. I would buy their cassettes, and learn different concertos, but then I started rounding out my collection. My dad was a big jazz fan, so I just started hearing a lot more soul music. I loved Little Stevie Wonder, and I got really into him as a singer and a writer as I got older.

  Toby Lightman

  Dad, Player, Soul

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• My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.

  Elliott Carter

  Musical Life, Hearing, Contemporary

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• I think the kind of person that gravitates toward New York is a person that's not so much focused on controlling exactly how they appear and how they exit. They're more fascinated with the process.

  Patton Oswalt

  New York, Thinking, Exit

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. August 31, 2011.

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• My all-time favorite topic in positive psychology is the study of positive emotions. I'm fascinated by how pleasant experiences, which can be so subtle and fleeting, can add up over time to change who we become. I'm especially excited these days about investigating how positive emotions change the very ways that our cells form and function to keep us healthy.

  Barbara Fredrickson

  Cells, Psychology, Healthy

  "Barbara Fredrickson Talks About…". Interview with Seph Fontane Pennock, positivepsychologynews.com. January 20, 2015.

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• I celebrated my 18th birthday in Japan, which was quite memorable; I was quite fascinated by the different traditions and the culture; it was so completely different to Australian culture.

  Miranda Kerr

  Memorable, Japan, Different

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• To work in America or other places is more about curiosity, because I'm dealing with cultures and sensibilities that I don't really know. So I'm having to sort of investigate them, which I'm fascinated in, but it comes from a place of curiosity rather than a real need to get something out of my system.

  Guy Pearce

  Real, America, Curiosity

  Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com.

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• I have a real love of sound and the shape of the sound. I'm a musician, and I'm fascinated with the effects of sound, and tone, and pitch and melody and all that sort of stuff.

  Guy Pearce

  Real, Musician, Sound

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• I love the language. I'm just totally fascinated by the sound and the look of words and the kinds of cadences you can create with them, the various kinds of music.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Sound, Looks, Cadence

  "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

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• Listening to the birds tells you different things about a place. I heard bird sounds I'd never heard before. I heard street sounds and country sounds and city sounds that are very different from what it is I'm used to and I get very fascinated about how that marks a place.

  Matana Roberts

  Country, Cities, Bird

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think I'm fascinated with history and - just in general. And I'm always interested in how did - how did this come to be? Why is this the way it is? And even singing classical voice, I quickly became more and more interested with early music, baroque voice. And that became an obsession to me - just figuring out how - who are the ancestors of whatever it is.

  Cecile McLorin Salvant

  Thinking, Voice, Singing

  "Jazz Singer Cécile McLorin Salvant Doesn't Want To Sound 'Clean And Pretty'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 4, 2015.

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• When I was a little boy, I was fascinated with how women looked and carried themselves.

  Erdem Moral?oglu

  Boys, Littles, Little Boys

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I'm fascinated by the magic realism used by many writers. I think it goes hand-in-hand with the Indian experience. It's a very different way of viewing the world.

  Joseph Boyden

  Thinking, Magic Realism, Hands

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Poems are not easy to start, and they're not easy to finish. There's a great pleasure in - I wouldn't say ease, but maybe kind of a fascinated ease that accompanies the actual writing of the poem. I find it very difficult to get started.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Ease, Be Kind

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• I'm just fascinated with the world that I can see, but I'm even more fascinated with the world that I can't see.

  Moby

  World, I Can

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Ever since I was a child, I've always been fascinated with Sherlock Holmes.

  Kam Williams

  Children, Holmes

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.

  Jacki Weaver

  Thinking, Grace, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a studio guy. That's really what I love the most. I'm so fascinated with audio gear and recording techniques and whatnot, it's pretty mesmerizing.

  Adam Young

  Guy, Technique, Gears

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• I'm fascinated by mankind. I grew up watching 'Candid Camera' and thought it was funnier than any standup, any joke, anything that could possibly be written because you're dealing with humanity. And people can relate to that. It touches everybody who sees it. It hits a nerve.

  Howie Mandel

  Candid Camera, People, Humanity

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• I can simply say that I feel spontaneously attracted by everything that is beautiful... It comes from the unconscious and not from my knowledge... Whatever is purely realistic, slice of life, which is average, quotidian, doesn't interest me... I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.

  Leni Riefenstahl

  Beautiful, Strong, Average

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• I'm fascinated by the logic that leads to something.

  Eugene Mirman

  Logic

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• I was always fascinated by forbidden things people didn't want to talk about, like death.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Death, People, Want

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• I am fascinated by the indecisive moment and the peripheral view.

  Doug Aitken

  Views, Indecisive, Moments

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• I think if you don't love people and aren't fascinated by them, you'll never succeed as a portrait photographer, because your pictures will look cold.

  Rankin

  Thinking, People, Portraits

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• The lover of photography is fascinated both by the instant and by the past. The moment captured in the image is of near-zero duration and is located in a ever-receding then. At the same time, the spectator's now, the moment of looking at the image, has no fixed duration. It can be extended as long as fascination lasts and endlessly reiterated as long as curiosity returns.

  Peter Wollen

  Photography, Zero, Past

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