Fascinating Quotes - Page 37

• Here's the fascinating part, call it the golden shoulder: We have no idea in advance who the great contributors are going to be. We know that there's a huge cohort of people struggling outside the boundaries of the curated, selected few, but we don't know who they are.

  Seth Godin

  Struggle, Ideas, People

  "Most people, most of the time (the perfect crowd fallacy)". sethgodin.typepad.com. March 25, 2013.

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• The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating.

  Joseph Campbell

  Fire, Would Be, Use

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• There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating.

  Lynne Tillman

  Character, Mean, Literature

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Some people seem so different, some people feel so much more than other people, some people are able to push past things so much easier. And...it's just fascinating to me.

  Marnie Stern

  Past, People, Different

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Even thought this is a remarkable story [The danish Girl] and these are two fascinating people in their own right, Lili's story had been in the public domain but this had somehow slipped out of sight. It seemed bizarre then but I couldn't have imagined releasing the film in a climate like today around trans issues and the comfort people have about it in the public eye.

  Lucinda Coxon

  Girl, Eye, Sight

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• Oscar Pistorius is now infamous for reasons that I think everybody knows about, but when I hit on his story and put it in the book, what I found fascinating was a description, from one of the scientists who helped Pistorius, of what the Paralympics will become. Because they don't place any restriction on enhancements for athletes, in the very near future the Paralympics will bear a closer resemblance to NASCAR than to the traditional Olympics. There will be a human-machine melding that will result in crazy feats of athleticism.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Crazy, Book, Athlete

  Source: therumpus.net

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• As with most of my work, I started from the abstract, from research, building an intellectual model that slowly became internalized when the characters came alive. It's fascinating what happens to the model you've so assiduously assembled when characters are allowed to run rampant: things you thought essential are broken and other things are vastly improved.

  Lauren Groff

  Running, Character, Broken

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• I have always found clowns really fascinating, especially on film. Even as a kid I was never scared of them.

  Rob Zombie

  Kids, Scared, Film

  Source: www.gorestruly.com

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• A half-hour before bedtime, I remind myself that I now deserve to prepare myself for a good night's sleep. You can't focus on your work if you're sleep-deprived even if you have a fascinating job.

  Marty Nemko

  Good Night, Jobs, Sleep

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• What's fun is watching actors of that calibre bring them to life. It's incredible. Christian Bale spent a day with the character he plays and after my year of being with him I couldn't have generated the same view of him. They have a different way of looking at people, it's fascinating to watch.

  Michael Lewis

  Christian, Fun, Character

  "The Big Short: author Michael Lewis on 'betting on Armageddon' during the global financial crisis; making of star-studded new film". Interview with Hayden Cooper, www.abc.net.au. January 14, 2016.

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• Of course I was drawn to the sun bears, they're fascinating. But so are tigers and lots of other animals at the zoo. Probably a big part of the reason I felt so connected to them was because of their name: SUN BEAR.

  Matthew Zapruder

  Zoos, Animal, Names

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love the rabbit hole. I spend a lot of time looking at images, Google mapping, etc. I also love to read court transcripts, FBI files, stuff like that. You go through vast, boring stretches, but the voices are always so fascinating and slowly a story begins to emerge. It's very much like playing detective.

  Zachary Lazar

  Voice, Google, Rabbits

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think a lot of Civil War stuff is written - As they say, history is written by the victors. And one of the things that I think is fascinating about this from a purely dramatic perspective is whether someone is right or wrong, you understand where they're coming from in this.

  Josh Radnor

  War, Thinking, Perspective

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The reason we love nature is because it's fascinating and we love all the creatures, but if you watch any nature film, there's always a lesson: "the creatures are all dying and life sucks." The same is true of literature.

  T.C. Boyle

  Life Sucks, Dying, Watches

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I would love to hang out with Elvis Costello, to see what he's up to because he seems so fascinating to me.

  Patrick Stump

  Hanging Out, Seems

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• It's one thing to write the music, it's another thing to write it down, it's another thing to play it, and something else altogether again to learn how to play it. These are the elements that are fascinating, and, you know, move my world.

  Gail Zappa

  Moving, Writing, Play

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I preferred that option, where my camera (and by proxy, me) could look them straight in the eye. The way they reacted to me was always interesting. Sometimes hard young men would reveal vulnerability and a softer side. In the case of teenage girls, I often got a fascinating glimpse of the woman inside.

  Derek Ridgers

  Girl, Teenage, Eye

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I worked in the mail room at CAA when I was in high school. I worked in the literary department, too. That was my after school job, believe it or not: I would read manuscripts and then evaluations on whether or not I thought they'd make good movies. Which was fascinating and kind of hilarious to me at the time.

  Matthew Specktor

  Jobs, Believe, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Benjamin Netanyahu is a fascinating figure.We say Nixonian about a lot of people. He really is Nixonian. He's brilliant. He's very isolated and insular.

  David Brooks

  People, Brilliant, Figures

  "Shields and Brooks on Netanyahu's election provocation, human trafficking holdup". "PBS Newshour", www.pbs.org. March 20, 2015.

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• The fascinating thing about food is that if you have issues with it, you have to face it every single day.

  Jami Attenberg

  Issues, Faces, Ifs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all theses different sounds, I really found that fascinating.

  Ella Henderson

  Home, School, Play

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• I read one time that I am permanently banned from Yankee Stadium and that I could never ever go back. This article mentioned, supposedly, that I did something in the early 2000s at Yankee Stadium, and I got arrested, and supposedly, allegedly, I went to jail for something that I did. I read that about myself one time and I thought that was pretty fascinating.

  Rob Huebel

  Yankees, Yankee Stadium, Jail

  "Rob Huebel on meeting Paul McCartney and how he knows Bigfoot exists". "11 Questions" with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. January 29, 2016.

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• I admire Joyce Maynard a lot, specifically her memoir "At Home in the World." Her writing is beautiful and fascinating and seemed to give me validation to the idea that I could write validly in earnest about my life with (my) very feminine point of view, and also that I could unapologetically explore the bad traits of my character (which I find to be more interesting to explore than the good traits), as well as explore other concepts that interest me like private vs public personas, age gap relationships, etc.

  Marie Calloway

  Beautiful, Home, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Bulgaria is a fascinating, beautiful, difficult country, and I fell in love with it.

  Garth Greenwell

  Beautiful, Country, Bulgaria

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think there are a lot of different things that dreams do for the individual and they're fascinating because it's not totally known what they do, but we have some science that is opening the door to a new world as we speak.

  Tom DeLonge

  Dream, Thinking, Doors

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