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• The poet's spoken discourse often depends on a mystique, on the spiritual freedom that finds itself enslaved on earth.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Spiritual, Earth, Poetic

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• I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.

  Ian Somerhalder

  New Orleans, Play, Vampire

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

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• I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

  Reynolds Price

  Thinking, Southern, Fairs

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• There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Baseball, Football, Distance

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.56, Pan Macmillan

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• Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but of the men who read reports of them aloud.

  Joe McGinniss

  Men, Stronger, Events

  Joe McGinniss (1969). “The Selling of the President 1968”

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• For me, and most of the other players, too, if you had to pick one of the four Grand Slams, you would pick Wimbledon. It's got tradition, it's got atmosphere, and it's got mystique.

  Stefan Edberg

  Player, Atmosphere, Four

  "Adieu to an elegant assassin: Stefan Edberg interview". Interview with John Roberts, www.independent.co.uk. June 23, 1996.

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• A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

  Robert Genn

  Art, May, Selling

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• The intertwining of corporations and government has become so extensive in this century that the notion of a democratic balancing act has become a dangerous illusion-and one of the cornerstones of the corporate mystique.

  Charles Derber

  Government, Corporations, Illusion

  Charles Derber (2014). “Corporation Nation: How Corporations are Taking Over Our Lives -- and What We Can Do About It”, p.34, St. Martin's Press

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• Unfortunately, most actors want to play off their own personal mystique and good looks and whatever, but that will only carry you but so far.

  Joe Morton

  Play, Want, Looks

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• In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.

  Myriam Miedzian

  Men, Self, United States

  Myriam Miedzian (2002). “Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence”, p.16, Lantern Books

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• I realized that what I was saying was threatening, somehow, to the editors of women's magazines. That it threatened the very world they were trying to paint, what I then called the "feminine mystique."

  Betty Friedan

  Editors, Trying, Magazines

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• Texas mystique (has been) created by the chemistry of the frontier in the crucible of history and forged into an enduring state of heart and mind.

  T. R. Fehrenbach

  Heart, Texas, Crucible

  T. R. Fehrenbach (2014). “Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• As a comedian I don't think they look at me as a sexual person but I can see where with actors it would be a little difficult for them because its part of their mystique, it gives them an easier time to change characters and people aren't going oh we have a gay actor, their gay so I don't know if I'm gunna buy this guy with this girl, its weird, I don't think it's fair; it's only done with us, it seems, like they just accept everyone as straight and go along with it and then its oh their gay and make a big deal out of it.

  Wanda Sykes

  Girl, Character, Gay

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• Communism, my friend, is more than Marxism, just as Catholicism is more than the Roman Curia. There is a mystique as well as a politick. Catholics and Communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate.

  Graham Greene

  Blood, Hands, Water

  The Comedians pt. 3, ch. 4 (1966)

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• A perfume is more than an extract it is a presence in abstraction. A perfume, for me, is a mystique.

  Giorgio Armani

  Perfume, Abstraction

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• When I was a kid, I did want to be a boy. I didn't like to play with dolls, and most of my friends were kind of sensitive, sissy boys. But as I got older, the mystique of being a girl began to interest me. It was confusing what sexuality was, and the responses of other people, but it didn't make me feel terrified or vulnerable.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Girl, Kids, Boys

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2009.

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• We broke through the feminine mystique and women who were wives, mothers and housewives began to find themselves as people. That didn't mean they stopped, or had to stop, being mothers, wives or even liking their homes.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Mean, Home

  "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Betty Friedan : Beyond the 'Feminine Mystique:' A New Era of Women's Rights". Interview with Robert Scheer, articles.latimes.com. April 26, 1992.

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• What we men share is the experience of having been raised by women in a culture that stopped our fathers from being close enough to teach us how to be men, in a world in which men were discouraged from talking about our masculinity and questioning its roots and its mystique, in a world that glorified masculinity and gave us impossibly unachievable myths of masculine heroics, but no domestic models to teach us how to do it.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Men, Talking

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• When the masculine mystique is pulling boys and men out into the world to growl manly noises at one another, the only power with astronger pull on the male psyche is maternally induced guilt. The guilt is quite necessary for our moral development, but it is often uncomfortable.

  Frank Pittman

  Boys, Men, Guilt

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• I tend to keep my private life private. I think it's important to have mystique. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them.

  Joan Jett

  Thinking, People, Singing

  "Joan Jett and Cherie Currie: The real 'Runaways'". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2010.

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• The only way to establish any kind of mystique, is to completely shut up and never talk to anyone. And I'm contractually obligated not to shut up.

  Robert Pattinson

  Way, Kind, Shut Up

  "He's Hot, He's Sexy, He's Undead" by Alex Pappademas, www.gq.com. February 28, 2009.

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• I'm still an Apple person, but let's just say the magic aura is gone. In a way that was a sad thing to lose, but I feel better for it. It's just a machine now, not linked with any greater mission or mystique.

  Alex Gibney

  Feel Better, Apples, Magic

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I think it's important to have mystique.

  Joan Jett

  Thinking, Important

  "Joan Jett and Cherie Currie: The real 'Runaways'". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2010.

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• In my industry, everybody wants to know everything about you, and its just dumb. I think the only way of maintaining some of that mystique is by not giving away too much about yourself. It has served me well so far. I never want to feel up for grabs.

  Miranda Richardson

  Thinking, Giving, Dumb

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• To be honest, I miss the old Hollywood way of having some mystique about the star.

  Nicole Scherzinger

  Stars, Missing, Hollywood

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

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