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Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.
Rachel Swirsky / Fiction Writer
Magic
Frighten
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What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.
Loretta Young / Actress
Intrigue
Knows
Know More Than
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Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.
Anibal Cavaco Silva / President Of Portugal
Ambiguity
Intrigue
Palaces
Intrigues
Palace
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Unlike a lot of people, I'm not afraid of the unknown. It intrigues me.
Misha Green /
Unknown
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That is what intrigues me; songwriting and song structure and expression.
Geddy Lee / Musician
Expression
Song
Songwriting
Structure
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I love going to concerts, so that whole environment is something that intrigues me anyway.
Gary Cole / Television Actor
Concerts
Environment
Intrigue
Love Me Something
Anyway
Intrigues
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I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.
Roger Spottiswoode / Film Director
Complicated
Engineering
Ethics
Ethics And Morals
Genetic Engineering
Thinking
Very
Genetic
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Morals
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When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.
William Shatner / Actor
Audience
Intrigue
Looks
Ad
Intrigues
Meaning
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What intrigues me is that you get a good bunch of musicians together, and interesting things will happen.
Peter Gabriel / Singer
Interesting Things
Good Together Me
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I think competitiveness between two people is still relevant, and the battle of the sexes still intrigues.
Julian Ovenden / Television Actor
Battle
Competitiveness
Relevant
Sex
Thinking
Two
Intrigues
Sexes
Two People
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You come to know the aches and vanities and tastes and intrigues of an entire neighborhood at a drug store.
Paul Engle / Poet
Drug
Neighborhood
Taste
Vanity
Aches
Tastes
Intrigues
Store
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
Aaron Lazar /
Stuck
Me Feel Doing
Carousel
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I'd love to act. I feel that it's another naked, mysterious challenge, like jazz. It kind of intrigues me in the same way.
Paula Cole / Singer-Songwriter
Challenges
Jazz
Mysterious
Naked
Way
Love Me Way
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What intrigues me is making images that confound and confuse the viewer but that the viewer knows, or suspects, really happened.
Lois Greenfield /
Suspects
Confound
Images
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Viewer
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In the 1950s and 60s, geopolitical intrigues did not much engage masses in Asia and Africa; it was something for elites to sort out.
Pankaj Mishra / Essayist
Asia
Elites
Geopolitical
Africa
Engage
Intrigues
Masses
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I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.
Emma Caulfield / Film Actress
Being Scared
Big Fan
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I'm quite simple, really. I like to play and inhabit my character. I really like to inhabit the situation. It's the situation that intrigues me.
Mark Rylance / Actor
Inhabit
Intrigues
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New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.
Aleksandar Hemon / Writer
New York
Publishing
Stars
Suicidal
Complete
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The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that.
Nicholas Kristof /
Amazed
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The Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe.
Billy Graham / Professional Wrestler
Curious
Believe Always Me
Highway
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We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other.
Black Kettle / Leader
Council
Your Keep Way
Intrigues
Whites
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I think that's one of the things that intrigues people the most: my defensive versatility. My movement and mobility is something that piques everybody's interest.
Willie Cauley-Stein /
Mobility
Versatility
Defensive
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You could almost write an opera about the selection of music directors for orchestras. The intrigues are really interesting, and then, at the end, the results are completely unexpected.
Andris Nelsons /
Opera
Orchestra
Selection
Unexpected
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What intrigues basic scientists like me is that anytime we do a series of experiments, there are going to be three or four new questions that come up when you think you've answered one.
Carol W. Greider /
Experiments
Series
Answered
Questions
Anytime
Basic
Intrigues
Scientists
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Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment.
Hugh Grant / Actor
Fancy
Window
Cleaner
Intrigues
Offices
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The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
Andrew Jackson / 7Th U.s. President
Diplomacy
Republic
Safety
Supreme
Texas
Accept
Bolt
Door
Foreign
Intrigues
Offered
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The rules I sort of live by for my theater career, which I hope to live for my film career, is that if there's something that intrigues me or fascinates me, or I don't know how to do it, then I should do it.
George C. Wolfe / Playwright
Fascinates
Intrigues
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People respond to something which intrigues them instead of something that gives them all the information - particularly in pop, which is, like, the genre for knowing way too much about everyone and everything.
Lorde / Singer-Songwriter
Genre
Information People Way
Respond
Intrigues
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By tradition, Beijing is a city of walls, sheltering its intrigues and ambitions behind a series of concentric barriers from the Great Wall down to courtyard homes that draw sunlight only from the gardens at their core.
Evan Osnos / Journalist
Ambition
Barriers
Beijing
Core
Great Wall
Series
Sunlight
Tradition
Wall
Behind
City
Down
Draw
Gardens
Homes
Intrigues
Sheltering
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The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of other nations, if you tangle her in the intrigues of Europe, you will destroy her power for good and endanger her very existence.
Henry Cabot Lodge / Former United States Senator
Power
Best
Good
Europe
Existence
Nations
Quarrels
States
United
United States
World
Will
Best Hope Good
Very
Destroy
Endanger
Her
Interests
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Other
Tangle
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What intrigues me is that there are funny people in the real East End. It's famous for it. There'd be blokes dressing up as women as a lark, but 'EastEnders' seems blind to the fact that they enjoy a laugh. There should be a cheery chappy on there.
David Jason / Actor
Famous
Blind
East
Funny People
Dressing
Intrigues
Lark
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When I begin a book, I inevitably discover many things along the way, about the characters, their past histories and the political intrigues that surround them. This discovery process is vital, and I would not prejudice it by deciding too much in advance.
David Brin / Scientist
Book
Prejudice
Process
Surround
Too Much
Begin
Advance
Deciding
Discover
Histories
Inevitably
Intrigues
Vital
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I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time I work in a new form, I discover all the things that make that an exciting medium. I've been very busy most of my career. I've had very few vacations.
Rupert Holmes / Composer
Vacation
Busy
Careers
First Time
Firsts
Time Work Me
Discover
Work Time Busy
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Medium
Vacations
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I always leave that for other people to decide, because some of the things I consider to be disasters are some people's favorite movies. And that's what I like so much, is that you never know. Something intrigues somebody and means nothing to somebody else.
Christian Bale / Actor
Disaster
Mean
People
Movies Always People
Disasters
Favorite Movies
Movies People Always
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As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.
Michael Arad / Architect
Architecture
Aspect
Cities
Glasses
Imagining The Future
Involved
Type
Architects
Imagining
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Places
Relationships
Structures
Types
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The semiology and phenomenology of hashtaggery intrigues me. From what I understand, it all began very simply: on Twitter, hashtags - those little checkerboard marks that look like this # - were used to mark phrases or names, in order to make it easier to search for them among the zillions and zillions of tweets.
Susan Orlean / Journalist
Phrases
Began
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Marks
Search
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