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"I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen."
"One person in the 60s fascinated me more than anybody I had ever known. And the fascination I experienced was probably very close to a certain kind of love"
"I've always had a massive fascination with the modern day cowboys. Modern day outlaws or going against the system, and that's always been very intriguing to me."
"The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight."
"...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated."
"My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases."
"What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us."
"Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail."
"Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life."
"He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know."
"Women were also urged to work on a mysterious quality called 'fascination.' Coming of age in the 1920's was a competitive business."
"That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say."
"If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism—I don't know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse."
"I love to keep poking and prodding at it. I’ve thought about it so much over the years that that fascination is bound to spill over into my writing."
"I've always had a fascination about mixing music."
"Ive always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there."
"Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination."
"Our fascination with gold is related to the fantasies of early childhood."
"For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history."
"The harvest-home or supper is a thing of the past. To those who feel the fascination of the past this may appear sad, but it is not so really for, even while it existed, this surface goodwill was often an empty show."
