"Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practical."
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"Evil is so seductive. It needs to grind you up and make you its slave."
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"It's easy to become a satellite today without even being aware of it. This country can seduce God. Yes, it has that seductive power; the power of the dollar."
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"Real life is generally much duller and inevitably sadder, most of the time. In film, you control everything that's going on, so you can indulge the most fantastic, romantic, escapist feelings and fantasies. You can do anything you want. That's why it's very seductive and pleasurable to earn your living making movies because you're not living in the real world."
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"But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects."
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"Perhaps if the future existed, concretely and individually, as something that could be discerned by a better brain, the past would not be so seductive: its demands would be balanced by those of the future."
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"Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self."
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"The first issue of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a wonderful door to a seductive new world. Let's all go in!"
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"TV is so seductive with a great workday. You're going to work and making people laugh, and that's fantastic."
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"I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making."
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"Exotic: meaning you're "desired." For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive."
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