Alfred Hitchcock
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
"Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement."
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Excitement
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Chili Davis
Professional Athlete
"I have always loved the Bay Area. I spent a lot of time in the Bay Area. I started my career there. That's a huge part of the excitement for me."
Brian May
Musician, Astrophysicist
"The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else."
Oliver North
Military Officer, Political Commentator
"Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story"
John Hope Franklin
Historian
"One feels the excitement of hearing an untold story."
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"Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world."
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"Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel."
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"The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement"
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"There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience."
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"For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy."
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"There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs."
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"Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all."
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"Excitement is not enjoyment: in calmness lies true pleasure. The most precious wines are sipped, not bolted at a swallow."
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"Learn to get excited like a child. There is nothing that has more magic than childish excitement."
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"The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when the latter came I almost felt it a disturbance, and rather still wished it had held aloof."
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"Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like a brush trembling with excitement and ecstasy. But one must learn to read, just as one must learn to see and learn to live."
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"Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase."
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"I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the big screen, which is great."
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"A most unfailing experience... of the excitement of sublunary (that is, human) natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief."
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"They could never go back to being a uniracial congregation again. It brings excitement. It brings life. It allows them to be able to know people they would never know, to meet people that are outside the congregation they would have never connected with, you know, through the networks that they developed in the congregation."
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"One of the things that drives me is the excitement that I could fail. What better buzz can you get?"
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"What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was."
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"At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known."
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"For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing."
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"I don't regret the excitement, because I do think that it helped us accomplish as much as we did."
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