We’ve collected the best Fascinated Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Colin Hanks, Baltasar Kormakur, Eleanor Tomlinson, Susanna Clarke, Alex Steffen. Use them as an inspiration.
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I’m really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it’s from another planet.
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I’m fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and designers about what they do. I appreciate applied creativity as a source of pleasure and meaning.
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I have always been fascinated by Indian history and architecture.
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I’ve always been really fascinated by Vincent van Gogh.
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I’ve always been fascinated by Oscar Wilde.
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Pirates have always fascinated me.
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I am fascinated with times past.
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I am fascinated by Shah Rukh Khan. He is brilliant.
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Dogs have such short life spans, it’s like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.
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I am always fascinated by India.
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I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
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I’ve always been fascinated by weather.
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I’ve always been fascinated by horror.
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If incredible creatures like sharks can exist, why not Bigfoot? When I look at sharks, they’re the most terrifying, monstrous, dinosaur-like things. To this day, I’m so fascinated by them and can’t get my head around how they are on Planet Earth at all.
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I like playing off strong actors, whether it’s Benedict Cumberbatch or Dominic Cooper. Also I’m a hopeless romantic, so I’m fascinated by relationships.
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I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.
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I am fascinated by crime scene investigating. I swear, I wish I was a crime scene investigator sometimes!
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I have been fascinated by Rani Padmavati from my childhood.
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I’ve always been fascinated by the idea that there’s no such thing as evil; it’s all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he’s a hero.
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I grew up as a computer scientist, and I’ve always been fascinated by algorithms.
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The first chance I had to go to Japan, which was in the early nineties, I went to a Noh play. I thought, ‘This is very, very slow.’ I noticed lots of people falling asleep. I didn’t really know what was going on; I was getting a little sleepy myself. Then the more I studied it, the more fascinated I got.
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I’ve always been fascinated with the ’60s in general.
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People are fascinated by evil because it’s mysterious and it doesn’t seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.
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I’m fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I’m sort of interested in the gory details of life.
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People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.
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I’m fascinated by food. Food is love, isn’t it?
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I was honestly a cartoon kid. I loved cartoons. That was more my dream than anything else. But now, it’s the films of people like John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. Those are the kinds of characters I want to play, and that’s the kind of filmmaking I’m fascinated by.
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Ever since I made the short film ‘Black And White,’ which had almost no dialogues, the idea of making a silent feature film fascinated me.
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We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture our imagination because they were actually so similar to us. They were very civilized. They had a very similar political system.
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I’m fascinated by female relationships.
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Growing up in the 1960s, I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t fascinated by airplanes and rockets.
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I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another – they get fascinated by magic tricks.
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I’ve always been fascinated by the military, the discipline they have and the sacrifices they make to defend the country. It’s something I’ve always been interested in.
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I’ve always been fascinated by dreams – they seem like such intriguing evidence of the brain’s obsession with narrative as a form of sense-making. But because dreaming is an unconscious process, we have little control over the stories we tell, so they can be fraught with anxiety, vulnerability, and exposure.
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When I was 7 or 8, I became fascinated with hot rods.
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Sounds always fascinated me.
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I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.
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I’m fascinated by people who have to reinvent themselves. I did it a few times – I was going to be a physicist before I was passionate about philosophy – and I realized that one more change, and I’m going to start looking like a dilettante.
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I would love to photograph Stephen Hawking. I am just fascinated by science, I really am.
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I love being on film sets even if I’m not acting in the film, and I’m fascinated by the work of the director of photography.
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I’m fascinated with the regionality of rap music.
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There’s something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I’m always tempted to go in that direction.
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I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the idea that your mind, when you are asleep, can create a world in a dream and you are perceiving it as though it really existed.
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I have always been fascinated by Krishna, the Indian deity.
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The process of communication with the afterlife – more of an exchange than a conversation – has always fascinated me.
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I’ve always been fascinated by the body and the mind.
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I used to aspire to being more of a traditional bass player, to be honest. People say I play it like a guitar – and I was a guitar player when I was growing up. I started learning when I was eight, and that’s what I was fascinated with in my teen years.
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I am fascinated by all the new technology that creates places for us to meet in what is called cyberspace. I understand what it must have meant for the rebellions in the 19th century, especially in 1830 and 1848, when the mass circulated newspaper became so important for the spreading of information.
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I had a fascination with the back side of the business, and the creative process always fascinated me. Vince gave me an opportunity in ’98 to sit in the production meetings. He would talk creative with me, and we had this creative rapport.
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In more recent years, I’ve become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest.
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I’m fascinated by adult women who don’t have close friends and how that could come to be. I think when you’re a kid, the relationships are so intimate, and you’re so connected to your girls, so what becomes of them? What could possibly happen to have you become an adult woman and no longer have that?
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I started to do theater when I was a little boy at school, and then, I think because my father was a documentary filmmaker and worked for German television, I was of course fascinated by what he did. Then when I was around 15, I did my first movie.
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I love ’80s rock music. I was fascinated with Stevie Nicks when I was growing up.
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The secrets of small towns have fascinated writers and readers since the first psychological thriller was penned.
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I am extraordinarily fascinated by the future of technology. We are in the early infancy of technology, and we have an opportunity to guide how technology develops and integrates into our lives. I talk a lot about the ‘invisible interface,’ or the idea that we can utilize technology without being absorbed into a screen.
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I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I’m taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban ‘beat’ poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music.
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I’m just fascinated by the past. You know, both by the possibilities it holds and by the complete tyranny of it, the way it sort of keeps you in this stranglehold and makes you want things that you no longer have and you can never get back.
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Emotions interest me, and I’m fascinated by how a child’s mind works.
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I’ve always been fascinated by what you can learn from looking into your DNA.
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One of the things I’m fascinated by as a traveler is watching how different countries control how they let the world encounter them.
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I wanted no other job than to work in newspapers. I was fascinated by the process of collecting information, talking to people and having the story appear in a paper that would be delivered in your letterbox.
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I was fascinated by movies from age 12.
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I have long been fascinated by our inclination to assume others we meet have the same moral code, similar values, and yet we can never be sure.
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We’ve always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.
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You see young people, or kids, and they’re fascinated by the way people talk. And that’s great. But eventually you get to the point where you think, ‘You know what? I don’t care how you talk, I’m just listening to what you’re saying.’
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When I was in graduate school, I became very interested in why some kids took on challenges and were able to bounce back from setbacks whereas others shy away from difficulty and really crumble when they hit failures. I became fascinated with people who had that kind of courage to take on challenges.
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Travel for me is all about transformation, and I’m fascinated by those people who really do come back from a trip unrecognizable to themselves and perhaps open to the same possibilities they’d have written off not a month before.
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I grew up loving watching movies, and at a certain point, I started to become fascinated with making movies. Then I went to film school, and I got to dabble with different aspects of moviemaking, and I ended up settling heavily into editing – editing was what I was really adept at, had a passion for.
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I think every little girl is fascinated with mermaids whether you are familiar with ‘Splash‘ or ‘Little Mermaid’ or things like that. I did remember the film but I didn’t watch it going into ‘Aquamarine.’
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I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.
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I’m fascinated by political enthusiasm.
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Why my interest in writers? Well, I’m one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it’s like to write. I’m interested in the creative process. I’m fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.
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Memory has always fascinated me. Think of it. You can recall at will your first day in high school, your first date, your first love.
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Obviously death is a theme I’m fascinated by.
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After a lifetime of world travel I’ve been fascinated that those in the third world don’t have the same perception of reality that we do.
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I just am fascinated by other female artists, probably because I feel a kinship with them, no matter who they are and what they do.
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I have always been passionate about dancing and acting, and before I was passionate about it, I was fascinated by it.
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A lot of people are frightened by old age – by being around people who are, basically, on their way out – but I’m fascinated by it. It’s an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.
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I’m not someone who can do 10 stepovers or backheels – I’m not very interested in that. I’m more fascinated by the simplicity of play because the thing that makes this sport so beautiful.
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The Italian futurists, the German expressionists, and the British vorticists were fascinated by speed and the ways the modern world was shattering conventions. The old ways of painting, writing, sculpting, and composing no longer seemed adequate to capture the world.
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I think every little girl is fascinated with mermaids.
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You’re always fascinated by what you do, and how other people look at it.
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People have always been fascinated by the foibles of the wealthy and privileged.
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Death is the one – the one thing we don’t have many answers for. We understand how people die, but we don’t know what comes next, and that’s something that’s always fascinated and disturbed me and frustrated me.
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My grandmother was a psychiatrist and had shelves full of medical books – I was constantly sneaking looks at some of those. I was fascinated by the descriptions of illnesses and diseases.
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I’m pretty interested in documentary film, and I’d watch almost anything. At some point, I stumbled upon ‘shoot interviews‘ and found out that wrestlers were now talking openly about things that were going on in wrestling that we as viewers were not privy to. This fascinated me.
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‘Babylone, Babylone’ is remarkable. Emmanuel is fascinated by Mexico. He knows the country without having been there… I am amazed by his intellectual capacities. He is extraordinary. I am talking about the man, not about my husband.
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I’m fascinated by young people who do extraordinary things.
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I’m fascinated by people who can keep who they are in the midst of this business, which is all about not only pretending to be other people, but also that perception of who you are and how successful you are and your standing in the business.
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My relationship with Paris began when I was working for Cerruti in the mid-1960s. When there was an important event in his store, Nino Cerruti very kindly took me with him. I was fascinated, and the city made a big impression on me.
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Science and mythology were the topics which fascinated me since my early childhood.
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I’m just fascinated by visiting actual castles in the countryside.
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I’ve always been fascinated by history.
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Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, ‘If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.’
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One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar terms of us vs them or east vs west, which was a by-product of the Cold War.
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For me, I’ve always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it’s like to be a nun. And I’ve always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I’ve been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, ‘I Wanna Be a Nun,’ when I was 25.
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I’ve always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.
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I’m more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it’s not an obsession, it’s a pleasure. There’s never enough time.
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I’m always fascinated by the disjunct between what’s really happening on the ground and the propaganda machine that feeds America alarmist news about immigration.
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I am fascinated by the whole process of what it’s like to be alive, whether it’s unbelievably uncomfortable and horrible or whether it’s quite nice.
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When I was a kid, I really loved game shows. For whatever reason, I was fascinated with them and watched them a ton.
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Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.
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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.
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I don’t think I’m all that interesting. I mean, I’m a guy who does a morning show and goes to bed at 9:00 every night. I mean, I don’t have a lot in my life that’s really fascinated or fodder for tabloids.
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I have always been fascinated by the way things work and how they came to take the form that they did. Writing about these things satisfies my curiosity about the made world while at the same time giving me an opportunity to design a new explanation for the processes that shape it.
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I’m fascinated with quantum physics.
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People are fascinated by me and always have been, and I have no clue why.
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Style is not my long suit, but I’m really fascinated by it.
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A lot of stories that have fascinated me are tabloid stories that have come from other newspapers, like ‘The New York Times.’
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I’ve always been fascinated by the desert.
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I am fascinated by English football.
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I was just fascinated with how everyone else in the world lived, and I was interested in telling their story.
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I was always really interested in startups and fascinated by what they were working on.
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I spent my time, growing up, essentially between two things: technology and retail. I was fascinated by selling and loved the idea of making a profit, but I also spent a lot of time on technology.
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Mollie Hunter was both a great friend and a very fine writer for children. She was fascinated by Scotland‘s history and its folklore – almost all her novels reflect her tremendous knowledge of both.
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People are just fascinated by assassinations.
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I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
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Like most people, I’m fascinated by characters who are completely flawed personalities, riven by anguish and doubt, and are psychologically suspect.
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My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.
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There’s definitely an interest in Scotland and what happened here. I think the rest of the world are fascinated by our history, and it’s nice to be able to bring Scotland and our culture and music to the screen.
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I find it vulgar that people are so fascinated by natural disasters, and we allow footage of young people that are looting because they have no choice because of natural disaster.
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The Church of Satan was something, aesthetically, that we were always really fascinated with and wanted to emulate. I think it’s a good look.
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Although a linguist, I was always interested in, and fascinated by, Stephen’s explanations of his work and proud of his discoveries and achievements.
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I remember reading a ‘Scientific American’ article about the use of new physical techniques – including neutron scattering – as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.
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I’ve always been intrigued and fascinated by Gaga. She is a chameleon; she has the capability to fully express her individuality and her eclectic personality by simply being herself.
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We are both disturbed and fascinated by visions of bleak futures, predictions of what might come if we as a society aren’t careful.
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If there was one key to happiness in love and life and possibly even success, it would be to go into each conversation you have with this commandment to yourself front and foremost in your mind, ‘Just Listen’ and be more interested than interesting, more fascinated than fascinating, and more adoring than adorable.
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I am and always have been fascinated with people, and I have a very good time coming up with the narratives of people’s lives, exploring how a person thinks and feels.
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I didn’t really know who Cassius Clay was. I just wanted to show America through a heavyweight championship fight. Ever since my childhood, I’d been fascinated by the way the whole country becomes polarised around this event.
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People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power – the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless in the world at times, so the temptation to be a vampire is compelling.
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I remain fascinated by where you go as a woman once you are a mother, and if you ever come back.
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I’m really fascinated and you know I’ve been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.
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Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.
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What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.
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I’ve always been fascinated by twins. In my forty years of photographing, whenever there was an opportunity, I would take a picture of twins. I found the notion that two people could appear to look exactly alike very compelling.
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My father loved the single-handed backhand, so to him, that was the main goal; we were always fascinated by that shot. He taught me all the technique and how to structure my game. I was really privileged to have a father like that.
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After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
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There’s something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a long time.
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As a child, I was fascinated by any branch of physical or biological science. Even today, I find great excitement in discovering the complexity and variability of the world we live in, getting a glimpse into the deeper reality that we mostly ignore in our everyday human activities.
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The slow rejection of the foreign skin grafts fascinated me. How could the host distinguish another person’s skin from his own?
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Even though I played national level badminton, I told my parents when I was in 10th that I was not interested in continuing. Being a model or actor fascinated me from a young age, and I even did a couple of ads when I was just eight years old.
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One of my favorite things about being the host of ‘The School of Greatness‘ is that I get to learn from the best minds in the world about stuff I am fascinated by.
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I’m fascinated by male vulnerability.
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My strengths, I think, are that I deal really well with people. I like people. I’m fascinated by how they work so I’m good at handling situations between departments on set or pre-production or post.
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I’m fascinated by beautiful scenery and what we have here on this Earth.
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I’ve always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, ‘More Than Human.’ So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards.
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When I was a kid, I loved action, war, horror, monster movies… Anything with special effects. I was fascinated with how’d they do that.
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For me, I’ve always been fascinated by tales of the Chinese railroad and the workers and the conditions of the workers who built the railroad.
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As soon as I moved to Princeton in 1978, I became fascinated by local history, much of it Revolutionary War-era; and I became fascinated by the presidency of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton University.
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If you’re talking to a child, you’re going, ‘This is the wonder of science and here’s why I’m so fascinated by it.’
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Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.
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I have always been fascinated by the story of Henrietta Lacks.
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Pen names have always fascinated me, in part because I understand the professional and economic and even societal reasons to do so.
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History has always fascinated me. Coming from a family that has it’s own regal history, I always like places that have a rich past.
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I am really interested in eccentric minds. It’s rather like being fascinated by how cars work. It’s really boring if your car works all the time. But as soon as something happens, you get the bonnet up. If someone has an abnormal or dysfunctional state of mind, you get the bonnet up.
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Obviously, I carved out a pretty successful path and career for myself. But I’m kind of fascinated with, for lack of a better term, Renaissance men. And women. People who do a lot of different things.
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I’m fascinated by steam engines and with Victorian engineering generally, and as a corollary to that, I’m fascinated by the idea of long-lived technologies.
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I would love to learn how to paint motorcycles and stuff like that. I really, really am fascinated by that.
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I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.
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I am always fascinated by the structure of things; why do things work this way and not that way.
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I’ve always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don’t think adults do.
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I learned my color in Europe. I’ve always been a colorist, I think. I started when I was very young, being a bird-watcher, fascinated by the bird colors.
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I’ve always been fascinated by real scientists – Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, and so many others – how they’ve come up with solutions to very complicated problems that nobody else can seem to figure out.
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I’ve always been fascinated by this idea of who we are versus who we want to be.
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I’ve always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It’s amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.
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I’m fascinated by the whole communist thing. No one has a lot, but everyone is the same. I like that way of living.
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I’m fascinated by Bollywood.
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Every person who went into the space industry did so because they looked up at the sky and were fascinated by it – not because they wanted to make a military or commercial object.
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And so from that, I’ve always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.
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I know that in spite of my varied career accomplishments, the one that will always excite and intrigue is the KKK investigation. It has defined me in ways unimaginable and has always fascinated those who hear its tale.
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I’ve always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I’m a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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Although I completed two years of internship in various small hospitals, I decided against continuing my medical training. I was much more fascinated by the unsolved problems of medicine than by practicing it.
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I’m really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I’ve always been fascinated with the Dark Ages as well as the power vacuum that followed the fall of the Roman Empire.
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My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn’t actually play on my own for about 30 years.
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I was fascinated by racing as a kid, but no way would I have thought I’d make it into Formula One from here, from being from Perth, racing on little local go-kart tracks, you know.
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I’m Mexican and Kenyan at the same time. I’ve seen the quarrels over my nationality, but I’m Kenyan and Mexican at the same time. So again, I am Mexican-Kenyan, and I am fascinated by carne asada tacos.
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Fascinated by history during my secondary education, then by physics and mechanics at the Ecole Polytechnique, I finally entered the national administration of mines in 1936.
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I’ve always been fascinated by mythology or, in modern parlance, by X-Men or vampires.
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It always circled back around to Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. That always fascinated me because so few people make the connection between the two.
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I think my passion is skincare because I’ve had so many different skin problems that I’m just fascinated by it. I find myself always reading about it.
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I’ve done a lot of research about the Civil Rights movement, and I’m fascinated with how difficult it would have been for a black man to show feelings toward a white woman in that time period.
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As a programmer, you’re working with very simple structures compared to the brain. So I was always fascinated by how the brain works.
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I’m fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on.
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I’m always fascinated by the ‘who would you like to work with’ question. I’ve never really had an answer; it only really comes as you work with them.
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When I was younger, I was fascinated by David Bowie, for example. he had created an entire myth around himself. It was as important as his music.
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A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies – they’re movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie ‘Marooned’ over and over when I was a kid.
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I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I’ve always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings.
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I’m fascinated with what happens to the creative output when you isolate yourself from the approval and disapproval of the people around you.
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You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I’m fascinated by cats.
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I am fascinated by the human body and all its evolutions.
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I’m fascinated by management and organizations: how organizations get things done and how successful organizations are built and maintained, how they evolve as they grow from start-ups to small companies to medium companies to big companies.
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I’m fascinated by simple joy.
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I think the kind of person that gravitates toward New York is a person that’s not so much focused on controlling exactly how they appear and how they exit. They’re more fascinated with the process.
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I always wanted to be a zoologist. I’m fascinated with animals. I wanted to be a zookeeper.
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I’m always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.
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I always thought it’d be cool to portray these certain things, make people feel a certain way. I was kind of fascinated with that, but I wasn’t the type to do acting school or theater. I didn’t have the best views of Hollywood, so it wasn’t something that I was going to try and pursue.
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I’m really fascinated by the self and how our selves shift and change over time and in relationship to different people.
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I would love to direct a western. I love taking photographs and I’m always fascinated with angles. Also, my father was a film editor, and I have a talent for thinking of things that aren’t always in a script.
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I try to create characters that I am fascinated by on some level or intrigued by or can’t stand.
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I loved ‘Homeland‘ – it’s such an intriguing, intelligent piece of television, and I am fascinated by them making a hero and heroine that are so odd, so flawed and so complicated. It is a programme that really draws you in.
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I was always drawing eyes, even as a child. Eyes fascinated me.
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Who isn’t fascinated by evil?
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You’d expect, as good Darwinian creatures, we would evolve to be fascinated with how the world really is, and we would use language to convey real-world information, we’d be obsessed with knowing the way things are, and we would entirely reject stories that aren’t true. They’re useless. But that’s not the way we work.
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I’m so fascinated by the concept of teen pregnancy for some reason. Not that I condone it or promote it, but it’s just a very real thing in our country and culture.
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I’ve always been fascinated with sound, since I was a little kid when my mother Dorothy Dean took me to my first piano lesson. Later on, my guitar, bass guitar, and synthesizer were my secret weapons.
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I’ve always been fascinated by India and its color and vibrancy. I worked in Madhya Pradesh in the Kanha National Game reserve before university, and it is probably the most intoxicating country I have ever visited.
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I was raised, I feel like, on television, definitely a child of TV, and was always fascinated by storytelling.
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There’s no more private family than the royal family. People who can really only be themselves with each other. The rest of us just spend all our time fascinated by them.
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When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York.
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People are very complex. And for a psychologist, you get fascinated by the complexity of human beings, and that is what I have lived with, you know, in my career all of my life, is the complexity of human beings.
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Just in the past few years – since I’ve been making movies, which isn’t a very long time – you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren’t even.
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I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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I’ve been fascinated with Maori culture since I was a kid.
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Growing up, I had a sense of the importance of commerce and trade to everyday life. Our family lived in several countries, and I was fascinated by the free exchange of goods and services between individuals and companies – the way both parties could benefit.
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I’m fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.
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‘Not A Love Story‘ is inspired by true events, but it is not based on those events completely. When I first read about the Maria Susairaj case, I was fascinated with the psychological aspects, that two seemingly very ordinary people can go completely berserk.
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I’m fascinated by the Philippines because I’m from here. I was born here. I’m a Filipino.
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I’ve always been fascinated by the operation of memory – the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
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When I started running for Congress, it actually took me by surprise that so many people were fascinated with me being the first Muslim in Congress.
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I did a co-authored book not so long ago that was an American historical romance set at the turn of the century. I’m fascinated by that period in time and would love to do more.
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Some people are fascinated by what they know, and some are fascinated by what they don’t know. I’m just very interested in what’s possible.
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I love ocean life. I’m fascinated that so much of it remains unexplored by human beings. Diluted seawater consisted of nearly the same concentration of elements and minerals as blood plasma. They’ve got the same amount of sodium, too.
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I’ve been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I’ve always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.
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I’ve had over a dozen models come in and pose fro me live for these new Cirque pieces. Cirque is a world-wide phenomenon and they are just incredible athletes. I’ve been to all the performances and am really fascinated by all of their productions.
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I’m fascinated by the idea that a human connection can be triggered through inanimate devices.
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It’s your job to come up with compelling characters who speak to an individual authenticity. If I’m not interested in the characters, I can’t go on. I have to be fascinated by them.
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When I started playing the bass, I became kind of fascinated by it and started investigating various styles of bass playing, and I was really struck with funk music, mainly American funk music – Stanley Clarke, Funkadelic and that kind of stuff. That comes out in a couple of songs like ‘Barbarism Begins at Home.’
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As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.
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I’ve spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I’m strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus’ teachings are so radical; they’re just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don’t like the living Jesus.
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My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It’s the new ones that I haven’t identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body – at least by mine.
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Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
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Ever since I was a little girl, I have always loved animals and been fascinated with them.
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I’d read up on the history of our country and I’d become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.
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I’ve always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you’ll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm Beach. It’s a very special area that, because of local demographics, is not going to survive much longer.
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I’ve always been fascinated with Ireland, especially Northern Ireland, having lived in London in the ’80s when there was an Irish republican bombing campaign there.
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Now I’m president. I get to meet a lot of other company presidents. They’re such weird people. I’m fascinated by them. I use some of them as enemy characters in our games.
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I’m not a big crime reader, but I’m reading Michael Connelly’s ‘The Reversal.’ I’m going back to his novels. I’m also reading Keith Richards’ ‘Life.’ I’m always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late ’60s and early ’70s and the youth culture becoming an industry.
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Indian mythology and its characters have always fascinated me and I find the antagonists especially very interesting.
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I think we’re all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.
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Having grown up Protestant, I was unfamiliar with St. Francis. Then I watched the movie ‘Brother Sun, Sister Moon’… I just became fascinated with the character of St. Francis. What I saw in that movie was a man who had fallen in love with God, someone for whom God was everything.
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I’m always fascinated by why a person becomes a writer.
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I am fascinated by Omega’s history. Particularly the First World War stuff, when they made watches for the flying corps, and the NASA side of it.
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I was initially just fascinated by the Branch Davidians. This doesn’t really apply to Rachel Koresh because she was born into the church, and that was all she had ever known, but I was fascinated by the psychology of how people get to that place – a place like Mount Carmel and an FBI stand-off for 51 days.
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I’ve studied psychology. I’m fascinated by the human mind, and I love people.
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I have always been fascinated by the way music can completely change the way you watch film – and how you feel as you watch the images.
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It’s always been the genres that fascinated me. I think great action movies and great thrillers are transformative.
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I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.
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On the one hand, I’m this guy who grew up in the suburbs of New York City to very conservative parents, and the other side of me is fascinated by the peripheries of our culture, maybe because that’s where our culture is most in transition and where there’s likely to be conflict.
