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• It's part of my job. You can't play Veronica Guerin sounding like this. It just wouldn't wash. But what I find fascinating about doing an accent - unless it's a farce - is that it's not slapped on.

  Cate Blanchett

  Jobs, Play, Acting

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• I recently got back from Hiroshima and it was fascinating to me how the Japanese accommodate this paradox. We were talking about this word aware, which on the page looks like "aware," which speaks to both the pain and the beauty of our lives. Being there, what I perceived was that this is a sorrow that is not a grief that one forgets or recovers from, but it is a burning, searing illumination of love for the delicacy and strength of our relations.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Pain, Grief, Illumination

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• The old dead trees are the most fascinating - the countless trees lying in the gullies and up the hills that fell perhaps a century ago, pulling up their roots from the earth as they toppled. The great upheavals left rocks in their huge tentacles and, as they slowly rot, the trunks are home to populations of creatures, from goannas to wild pigs. As grey as tombstones in a cemetery they lie there, having outlasted generations of farmers, as they'll outlast me. In their own way they are as beautiful, more beautiful, than living trees.

  Phillip Adams

  Beauty, Beautiful, Tombstone

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• I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view

  Elizabeth George

  Believe, Writing, Views

  Elizabeth George (2009). “Write Away: One Writer's Approach to the Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• I was fortunate to be part of a very successful show on CBS in 1986. I switched to NBC for eight years and through these experiences have gotten terrific insight into television; it's a fascinating medium.

  Will McDonough

  Successful, Nbc, Eight

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• I've been visiting Thailand for more than 20 years but didn't fall in love with it until I visited Phuket Town in Phuket. The northern part of Phuket is one of the most fascinating places I've ever been, and largely unspoilt and unknown.

  Tony Parsons

  Falling In Love, Years, Thailand

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• The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.

  Herbert Simon

  Inspiring, Beautiful, Fear

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• Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Simple, Thinking

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• Men are more interesting than women, but women ae more fascinating.

  James Thurber

  Women, Men, Interesting

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• You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Men, Games

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• I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.

  Jim Bolger

  Thinking, Views, People

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• I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

  Elizabeth George

  Character, Dark, Men

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• I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.

  Kate Atkinson

  Past, Thinking, Creating

  "Behind the scenes with Kate Atkinson". www.independent.co.uk. August 06, 2000.

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• Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.

  William Boyd

  Thinking, Encounters, Veins

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• I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

  Alan Ball

  Character, Thinking, Roots

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• You have to be proactive about your destiny and then realize that the other half of it is completely out of your control. I think it's fascinating.

  Eric Bana

  Destiny, Thinking, Half

  "Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana Interview THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. August 13, 2009.

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• I can go to a lot of games, but I'm not a player. I'm kind of an observer. That's why I think I do what I do in life. I just observe. That's what I find fascinating.

  Howie Mandel

  Player, Thinking, Games

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• I was not a comic book reader, but my son is. My son wasn't really interested in reading books, which was hard for me because I love to read. It just didn't come naturally to my boy. So we kind of found comic books because they were fascinating to him. They were great stories.

  Virginia Madsen

  Book, Reading, Son

  FaceBook post by Virginia Madsen from May 03, 2017

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• We wanted to show people what it was like in one of those neighbourhoods that they would never have access to, in bars that they would be too scared to go into, and a world that they would never get to see. All of that is something really unusual and rare and kind of fascinating. And the only way to do that and to make it really worthwhile was that it had to be authentic. We dedicated a lot of time and energy to making that right and real. So we found basically the worst locations that we could.

  Ben Affleck

  Real, People, Energy

  Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'm sure you find it fascinating. It's always interesting for everybody to look at people who've been pushed to the brink. You wonder how you would fare with that. Nobody's interested in somebody who doesn't ever really do anything. I don't have a choice in that. I will always go for those kinds of characters. Each one is a separate choice for me, but I think it's fairly natural to find yourself gravitating towards people who have done extraordinary things.

  Christian Bale

  Character, Thinking, Interesting

  "Christian Bale Pushes the Limits in Rescue Dawn". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. July 8, 2007.

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• The film that really struck me was Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. That was a film I watched many, many times and found endlessly fascinating in it's density. I think the density of that film is primarily visual density, atmospheric, sound density, moreso than narrative density.

  Christopher Nolan

  Thinking, Blade Runner, Sound

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I hate the word feminine! I mean, there is a woman and a man and when I say "woman" it suggests all that is radiant, tender, fascinating, gentle, demoniac, exaggerated! Feminine makes me think of somebody who is spindly and over-sweet: I don't like that!

  Sonia Rykiel

  Sweet, Hate, Mean

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The natures of men and women are very mixed and for me the most fascinating type of woman is the one who is a little masculine, has a little of the man in her, and the sort of man who is fabulous is the one who is a little woman too. It's impossible not to mix them!

  Sonia Rykiel

  Men, Littles, Fabulous

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that the boy-woman is a very strong image and a lot of fascinating women are like that: Gala [Dalí].

  Sonia Rykiel

  Strong, Boys, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Internet is just one big gossip chamber - that's why it's so fascinating and entertaining. It's a fabulous platform for superficial communication.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Communication, Gossip, Fabulous

  "It’s Sufjan Stevens’ Way or the Highway". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2009.

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