Fascinating Quotes - Page 8

• Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.

  Heywood Broun

  Thinking, Devil, Puritan

  Heywood Broun, Margaret Leech (1927). “Anthony Comstock: Roundsman of the Lord”

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• Reality is a harsh mistress. She demands our honesty. She demands our work. She demands that we give up comforts, that we let ourselves feel pain, that we accept how small we are and how little control we have over our lives. And she demands that we make her our top priority. But she is more beautiful, and more powerful, and more surprising, and more fascinating, and more endlessly rewarding, than anything we could ever make up about her.

  Greta Christina

  Beautiful, Giving Up, Honesty

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• To be in Brazil and see the work of Os Gêmeos or to be in England and see what Banksy is doing is pretty fascinating to me.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Brazil, England

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm interested in the sheer fascination of beauty - beauty is fascinating.

  Chantal Joffe

  Fascination, Sheer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've played a different type of character in a different type of thing, for the most part. It's not like you can't mine tons of fascinating stuff from any character that you play, and I've always been fascinated with women and relationships, but this has been a completely different experience, for sure.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Character, Play, Different Experiences

  "Lizzy Caplan Talks MASTERS OF SEX, Her Real-Life Counterpart, Going to Work and Watching People Pretend to Have Sex, and More". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. October 5, 2013.

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• I hate to say that, but the past was much more fascinating. I don't particularly care for any of the current crop of actors. I don't particularly care for any of the current crop of directors. But I have a lot of friends who are editors, and there are a lot of technical things going on here that are interesting.

  Kenneth Anger

  Hate, Past, Editors

  Interview with Harmony Korine, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 30, 2014.

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• It's fascinating. It's also exhilarating when you see people making the exact same choices that you've made. It kind of validates what you've decided to do. I saw a wonderful production of Jessica Lange doing Streetcar with Alec Baldwin. It was gorgeous. It's a measure of what a great classic that is, that our Cate Blanchett also did an absolute amazing Blanche in Sydney, as well as in New York.

  Jacki Weaver

  New York, People, Choices

  "Jacki Weaver, America’s Sweetheart". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 2, 2014.

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• Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such an advanced society.

  Jeremy Bolt

  Thinking, Rome, Culture

  Source: collider.com

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• It's funny what [producer Richard Zanuck said about even though you can't quite place when the book or the story came into your life, and I do vaguely remember roughly five years old reading versions of Alice in Wonderland, but the thing is the characters. You always know the characters. Everyone knows the characters and they're very well-defined characters, which I always thought was fascinating. Most people who haven't read the book definitely know the characters and reference them.

  Johnny Depp

  Book, Reading, Character

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• Ang [Lee] gave us a lot of books about cowboys who had been gay or stories about it and all that stuff. And I just talked to a lot of my friends - who [was] their first, particularly same-sex, first situation. That was fascinating to me - trying to learn what that was in a certain period of time. Certain age. The secrecy involved in it. All those things.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Sex, Book, Gay

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• Then we started looking at story and what was making sense and what wasn't making sense, emotionally and thematically the intention that we had a year earlier when they were working on the script, did all that come across? It's all kind of generic things, but it's fascinating and it's weird - I haven't made that many films, but it's weird that every time you think you learn from your mistakes on your last film you have a slew of new mistakes and things that you learn.

  Bryan Burk

  Mistake, Thinking, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• You can make a global film, which affects so many countries and affects sort of this worldwide epidemic, but it has, zombies are great metaphors for the times we live in today and that's what I always find fascinating about them, but then it's like the walking dead, you know, the unconscious, and the metaphors for them are just really something I was inspired by.

  Marc Forster

  Country, Epidemics, Walking Dead

  Source: collider.com

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• What's fascinating . . .is that you could now have a business that might have been selling for $10 billion where the business itself could probably not have borrowed even $100 million. But the owners of that business, because its public, could borrow many billions of dollars on their little pieces of paper- because they had these market valuations. But as a private business, the company itself couldn't borrow even 1/20th of what the individuals could borrow.

  Charlie Munger

  Pieces, Paper, Littles

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• The question itself [of UFOs] I think is legitimate. It's interesting, it's fascinating. It's mythic in scale and one of the grand questions. It's like the God question or, you know, the meaning-of-life question. It's one of those, on that scale. So you'd have to be made of wood not to be interested and, you know, have they come here? Are they up there?

  Michael Shermer

  Thinking, Interesting, Meaning Of Life

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• Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected, in this case I would think interesting would suffice.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Thinking, Interesting, Use

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• The most fascinating person I have met so far is indeed Mr. Hugh Hefner. An incredible man!

  Katie Price

  Men, Incredibles, Mets

  "Katie Price is right". Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• More and more I like to take a train. I understand why the French prefer it to automobiling it is so much more sociable, and of course these days so much more of an adventure, and the irregularity of its regularity is fascinating.

  Gertrude Stein

  Adventure, These Days, Regularity

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.136, Random House

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• Reality television, which turned its eye on people who were doing nothing but being themselves, was the perfect expression of this trend [of narcissism]. Let's look at ourselves, it said. Aren't we fascinating?

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Eye, Reality, Expression

  Alexander McCall Smith (2007). “Espresso Tales”, p.10, Anchor

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• hen, there's such a temptation to just constantly write things that are going to make the fans happy. Sometimes it takes a little bit of unhappiness to make those happy pay-offs work better. That's something that is fascinating to us and I think has really changed the way that stories are told.

  Jeff Pinkner

  Writing, Thinking, Temptation

  Source: collider.com

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• Once people start to realize the consistency of quality that is coming, they'll start to open up their minds a little more and say, "Wow, this is great. I'm going to tune into this." It's not just for the geeks and the people that are into it. It's actually really fascinating. That's my take on it.

  J.H. Wyman

  People, Consistency, Mind

  Source: collider.com

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• Amateur psychiatric prognosis can be fascinating when there's absolutely nothing else to do.

  Richard Condon

  Prognosis, Psychiatric, Absolutely Nothing

  Richard Condon (2005). “The Manchurian Candidate”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say "How fascinating!"

  Benjamin Zander

  Mistake, Air, Hands

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• What's so fascinating about people is what they don't show. People are masters at it; usually actors show too much.

  Glenn Close

  People, Actors, Too Much

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.

  Henry Rollins

  Country, Years, Haiti

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• Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?

  Henry Rollins

  Motivation, Artist, Years

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