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• And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.

  Julie Taymor

  Thinking, People, Stories

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• I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.

  Jared Padalecki

  Thinking, Comedy, Terrified

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• What a moment to take the newspaper in one hand and the Bible in the other and watch the unfolding of the great drama of the ages. This is an exciting and thrilling time to be alive. I would not want to live in any other period.

  Billy Graham

  Drama, Hands, Age

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.8, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Grease is one of the movies that made me want to be an entertainer, and I have literally been waiting my whole life to play Sandy. My siblings and I watched it and played it out over and over when we were kids. This is my dream role and performing it live on television will be one of the most thrilling opportunities I’ve had in my career so far.

  Julianne Hough

  Dream, Sibling, Kids

  "Fox Taps Julianne Hough, Vanessa Hudgens for 'Grease: Live'" by Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 17, 2015.

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• The world is grand, awfully big and astonishingly beautiful, frequently thrilling.

  Dorothy Kilgallen

  Beautiful, World, Bigs

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• It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.

  Andrew Scott

  Drama, Essence, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Part of the reason why I love acting is that you do hope that somehow your work will connect to people and somehow expand their consciousness somewhat, and being able to challenge notions of prejudice through work - through my work - is really thrilling.

  Gwendoline Christie

  People, Challenges, Acting

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

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• It would be thrilling if I could be boycotted or something. I think that's part of the thrill Madonna gets, when you know you've hit a nerve. But that doesn't scare me. To me what would be a lot scarier would be like appearing on an episode of 'Full House' or something.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  Thinking, House, Scare

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• I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts Rush on my mind, a thousand images; And I spring up as girt to run a race!

  Samuel Rogers

  Running, Morning, Art

  Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830). “The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume”, p.70

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• It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling.

  Allison Janney

  Great Day, Way, Hearing

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• Each of us is free to move our consciousness through that infinite pattern of possibilities as we please. If we're filled with fears, or if we trust the fears of others, we'll choose a path in which our city falls into the sea, or a path in which a third world war vaporizes us, or whatever other disaster is most thrilling or horrifying or fascinating for us.

  Richard Bach

  War, Moving, Fall

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• If you do a musical, it's really thrilling and it's a lot of work, but it's very rewarding. I would say, for me, what I like best is what I do, which is, I call it vaudeville, I call it live, I call it in concert, I call it what Bette Midler does, and what Garland did for years, and Ethel Merman.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Years, Musical, Doe

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I'm very proud of the work I do, but I genuinely can't involve myself with an audience as early as somebody who's not part of the film can. So there's that side of theater that appeals to me, where you give something and the response to what you've created is a communion between you and the dark that contains however many people. It's thrilling not having a reflection other than through the people you're communicating with. But people ask, "What do you prefer?" and I don't have a preference. I love them both. I really do.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Dark, Reflection, People

  Interview with Gary Oldman, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2013.

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• I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to directing, because you get to walk among this piece of art, to live in it, be surrounded by it, which is just thrilling.

  Brad Pitt

  Art, Pieces, Architecture

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• Acting is the great love of my life. It gives you permission to use all parts of yourself. Permission to be the hero, the love interest, the comedian, the villain. Transformation excites me. So does truth. Nothing is more thrilling, hilarious, and tragic than the truth. Those things motivated me to become an actor. Also, they always have the best food on set.

  Blake Griffin

  Hero, Giving, Great Love

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• The best thing about acting is when you're playing a scene and you actually become your character and lose yourself in that moment. That's when you know you've been succeeded at what you've worked very hard to accomplish in your profession. Those are the truly thrilling moments.

  Meryl Streep

  Character, Acting, Moments

  Source: egomagazine.ae

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• I was four or five, and my mother gave me a big black tablet, because I kept complaining that I was bored. She said, "Then write something. Then you can read it." In fact, I had just learned to read, so this was a thrilling kind of moment. The idea that I could write something - and then read it!

  Joan Didion

  Mother, Writing, Ideas

  Interview with Sheila Heti, www.believermag.com. December 2011.

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• There is nothing more thrilling than arriving in a new place on your own and feeling the sense of possibility and excitement that brings with it.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Feelings, Arriving, Excitement

  "I'm not at my desk now: what makes the perfect summer getaway" by Imogen West-Knights and Grace Cook, www.ft.com. August 7, 2015.

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• I remember a few years ago I was sitting at home with my wife watching the Oscars. I was sitting on the couch and suddenly heard my voice. It's thrilling. It's interesting that a lot of guys do me. I have a friend who does me on his answering machine so when I call him I talk to myself. I don't really know what that comes from. It doesn't seem to me that I speak in a strange way. My wife says Kevin's (Spacey) the best.

  Christopher Walken

  Home, Years, Voice

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• In terms of collaboration, working on a new piece is always thrilling, as I'm sure most people would say, because the playwright is in the room and the piece itself evolves in response to what is happening in the room.

  Gideon Glick

  People, Collaboration, Pieces

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling.

  Amber Benson

  Writing, Games, Chess Game

  "Amber Benson: From vampires to 'Among the Ghosts'" by Louis Peitzman, www.sfgate.com. October 21, 2010.

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• We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun,-a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.‎

  John Muir

  Nature, Science, Glasses

  John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.161, Library of America

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• If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.

  Ben Kingsley

  Long, Choices, Wish

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• The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from your subconscious, is beautiful - it's thrilling. When you're editing, which is your conscious mind, it's like torture.

  Steve Martin

  Beautiful, Writing, Editors

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• I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling.

  Elmer Bernstein

  People, Made, Found

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