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• The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.

  Bob Newhart

  Play, Discipline, Actors

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• There is a dance only you can do, that exists only in you, here and now, always changing, always true. Are you willing to listen with fascination? If you are, it will deliver you unto the self you have always dreamed you could be. This is a promise.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Self, Promise, Here And Now

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• Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist, but isn't fascination as comforting as solace? Isn't nature immeasurably more interesting for its complexities and its lack of conformity to our hopes? Isn't curiosity as wondrously and fundamentally human as compassion?

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Nature, Compassion, Interesting

  "Eight Little Piggies". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, "Tires to sandals", 1993.

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• I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.

  Lucian Freud

  Art, Giving, Trying

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• Develop a childlike fascination with life and people.

  Jim Rohn

  People, Childlike

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 20, 2017

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• I think everyone has some fascination with what's outside our existence. It's a constant journey to find the truth.

  Nicholas Lea

  Journey, Thinking, Existence

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music... It's my fascination, my on-going passion.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Passion, Culture, Ongoing

  "Mad About The Music". "The Daily Telegraph", June 13, 1996.

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• She's a reflection of my fascination with the diversity of America she's totally normal in New York, but a freak in Texas. There are dozens of such clashes in America.

  Lee Child

  New York, Reflection, Texas

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• I'd like to put in a vote for the intrinsic fascination of science.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Vote

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• I didn't understand the American fascination with the Japanese schoolgirl. No, I don't think I can, really.

  Chiaki Kuriyama

  Thinking, I Can

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• He is no true reader who has not experienced the reproachful fascination of the great shelves of unread books, of the libraries at night of which Borges is the fabulist. He is no reader who has not heard, in his inward ear, the call of the hundreds of thousands, of the millions of volumes which stand in the stacks of the British Library asking to be read. For there is in each book a gamble against oblivion, a wager against silence, which can be won only when the book is opened again (but in contrast to man, the book can wait centuries for the hazard of resurrection.)

  George Steiner

  Book, Night, Men

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• Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.

  Reggie Watts

  Giving, Understanding, World

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• All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with my parents' story and what they went through.

  Sarah Polley

  Thinking, Parent, Stories

  "Sarah Polley" by Katie Holmes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2013.

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• In each life, no matter how it's lived, there is cause for fascination and often delight

  Hugh Massingberd

  Love, Life, Family

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• I see the bomber pictures as an anti-war statement... which they aren't - at all. Pictures like that don't do anything to combat war. They only show one tiny aspect of the subject of war - maybe only my own childish feelings of fear and fascination with war and with weapons of that kind.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, War, Feelings

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• A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the wall. One day an ant came into his cell. The man contemplated it in fascination as it crawled around the room. He held it in the palm of his hand the better to observe it, gave it a grain or two, and kept it under his tin cup at night. One day it suddenly struck him that it had taken him ten long years of solitary confinement to open his eyes to the loveliness of an ant.

  Anthony de Mello

  Wall, Taken, Eye

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• God has given us the fascination and mystery of irrational numbers, as one aspect of a rich world

  Vern Poythress

  Irrational Numbers, World, Mystery

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• I've always had a fascination with interior design. As a kid, I used to go to real estate open houses with my parents on the weekends. Like a nerd! I would think of how I would piece rooms together at those open houses.

  Jeremiah Brent

  Real, Kids, Weekend

  The Inside Source Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2011.

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• Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind. Their amazing variety is a constant delight. I do not believe that I am alone in this - a fascination with words is shared by people in all countries and all walks of life.

  George Armitage Miller

  Country, Believe, Science

  "The Science of Words". Book by George Armitage Miller (Preface, p. 7), 1991.

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• The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common-sense. The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Baby, Children, Lying

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• When you cook, you never stop learning.
  That's the fascination of it all.

  James Beard

  Cooks, Never Stop Learning

  James Beard (2015). “James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• Technology is a wonderful tool, but also if used incorrectly a horrible tool. We're fascinated by all aspects of it, whatever makes our human lives easier on the planet, but eventually there will have to be some sort of merger. The fascination isn't going to die down.

  Reggie Watts

  Technology, Mergers, Tools

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• One of my fondest memories from childhood is of looking at a globe with my father. "What's the biggest country?" he'd ask me and my sister. We'd spin the globe around and guess. . . . The globe brought me a sense of wonder and adventure. I wanted to go to those other places and see how people did things differently. And, many years later, when I did visit other countries, I took my father's interest and fascination with me. When we plant the seeds of fascination and respect for other people, we are teaching tolerance and peace.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Country, Memories, Father

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• It's still hard for me to understand, what is to me, the morbid fascination with celebrity. I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do. I understand, you know, the interest but I really don't understand the fascination with it.

  Marc Anthony

  Want, Morbid, Fame

  "Marc Anthony keeping mum on wedding". www.today.com. June 8, 2004.

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• I love the short story for being round, suggestive, insinuating, microcosmic. The story has both the inconvenience and the fascination of new beginnings.

  Luisa Valenzuela

  New Beginnings, Stories, Short Story

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