All Quotes

I've always been discreet - more than discreet. When a friend calls, and I'm doing something innocuous like cooking dinner, I tell them I'm reading or running out to the movies. It's the surveillance I can't stand.
‐‐ Joshua Cohen

I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
‐‐ Idris Elba

I've always been down-to-earth about money.
‐‐ Chynna Phillips

I've always been drawn to artists who paint for the everyday person. I love the American illustrators.
‐‐ Thomas Kinkade

I've always been drawn to city skylines.
‐‐ Dave Haywood

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable.
‐‐ Steve Coogan

I've always been drawn to historical fiction.
‐‐ Karin Slaughter

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.
‐‐ Sherilyn Fenn

I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.
‐‐ Caroline Knapp

I've always been drawn to spooky things, to the unusual, to things that are dark but in a friendly way.
‐‐ Jane Goldman

I've always been drawn to stories and telling them; whether it was through being a part of theater when I was a little kid, or film, or with music, there's just been an innate desire to feel that connection.
‐‐ Ellen Page

I've always been drawn to stories involving brothers, which started with my first viewing of Sean Penn's, 'The Indian Runner.' This subsequently lead to my working with my two brothers, Scott & Brad. I couldn't imagine a greater gift in the business.
‐‐ Dean Winters

I've always been drawn to the American style in the late '50s and '60s.
‐‐ Thom Browne

I've always been drawn to the Edwardian period in England. To me, it seems like such a fascinating time, when the British Empire was at the height of its powers and the strict mores of the Victorian age were dissipating into the decadence of King Edward's reign.
‐‐ Kevin Kwan

I've always been drawn to the four-leaf clover. It's deeply significant to my sister and me, so much so that we both have had it tattooed on the inside of our wrists.
‐‐ Natalie Imbruglia

I've always been drawn to the ocean.
‐‐ Kenny Chesney

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.
‐‐ Antonio Tabucchi

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.
‐‐ Meg Wolitzer

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.
‐‐ Samuel Dash

I've always been endorsed by the National Rifle Association.
‐‐ Howard Dean

I've always been engaged in social protection programmes.
‐‐ Jim Yong Kim

I've always been 'ethnic friend,' without any serious moments, all jokes.
‐‐ Al Madrigal

I've always been exactly who I am on TV. I'm not playing a role.
‐‐ Chelsea Handler

I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.
‐‐ Aaron Lazar

I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
‐‐ Aaron Koblin

I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason.
‐‐ Matthew Bourne

I've always been excited to know how we got here.
‐‐ John C. Mather

I've always been extremely conservative, but I've never been mean-spirited.
‐‐ Matt Salmon

I've always been extremely lucky in playing with great people who knew much more than I did. That's how I got from there to here.
‐‐ Steve Lacy

I've always been extremely physical.
‐‐ Mads Mikkelsen

I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
‐‐ Mads Mikkelsen

I've always been extremely physically active.
‐‐ Danai Gurira

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.
‐‐ Jason Gann

I've always been fairly reserved and laid-back.
‐‐ David James Elliott

I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited.
‐‐ Andrew Bird

I've always been fascinated by accounts of seemingly 'normal' people who have committed horrendous acts of cruelty and violence. You hear it on the news all the time.
‐‐ Richard Montanari

I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.
‐‐ Rachel Weisz

I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.
‐‐ Sarah Michelle Gellar

I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies.
‐‐ Dylan McDermott

I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a biography to a classic - to me every week and ask me to write a piece on what I thought about it. On the other hand, my mother used to love reading thrillers and bestsellers.
‐‐ Ashwin Sanghi

I've always been fascinated by chefs and the worlds of chefs - what they do is incredibly cinematic.
‐‐ Jon Favreau

I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.
‐‐ Damon Lindelof

I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.
‐‐ Peter Greenaway

I've always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on a film set, which actually made me a little sad. You need to have normal experiences of your own.
‐‐ Emma Watson

I've always been fascinated by everything with wings.
‐‐ Dolly Parton

I've always been fascinated by family ancestry.
‐‐ Molly Antopol

I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascination for me and always have been something I've wanted to watch and wanted to make.
‐‐ Edgar Wright

I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
‐‐ M. J. Rose

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.
‐‐ Ben Elliot

I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.
‐‐ Clare Balding

I've always been fascinated by memory and dreams because they are both completely our own. No one else has the same memories. No one has the same dreams.
‐‐ Lois Lowry

I've always been fascinated by mythology or, in modern parlance, by X-Men or vampires.
‐‐ Marcus Sakey

I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number.
‐‐ Robert Indiana

I've always been fascinated by people, their psychology, what drives them and trying to understand them.
‐‐ Adan Canto

I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.
‐‐ John Banville

I've always been fascinated by Picasso and how he would look at a single image through multiple perspectives and from separate moments in time. He would look at a woman's face and he would see almost a three-dimensional look even though it was a flat canvas. I thought, well why couldn't we do the same thing with a football play?
‐‐ Steve Sabol

I've always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities.
‐‐ James Dashner

I've always been fascinated by the Chinese. This goes a long way back to my childhood. The Chinese invented money, movable type, clocks, and built the largest ships in the history of the world.
‐‐ Thomas Steinbeck

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.
‐‐ M. J. Rose

I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but you can't tell to an audience. There's a fine line you have to tread because you don't know who is out there in the auditorium. A lot of people are too easily offended.
‐‐ Billy Connolly

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.
‐‐ Nelson DeMille

I've always been fascinated by the grassroots folktale level of a culture, and as a storyteller, I have to follow what seems to be leading me on.
‐‐ Robin McKinley

I've always been fascinated by the human body, but you can become quite morbid and paranoid if you think too much.
‐‐ Ellie Goulding

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.
‐‐ Eli Roth

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.
‐‐ Troy Polamalu

I've always been fascinated by the Mississippi River and the way of life in these small river towns.
‐‐ Daniel Woodrell

I've always been fascinated by the Norsemen, their lives, history and cosmology. The more we study them the more interesting they become... breaking their own stereotypes. We usually think of them as barbarians, but there were aspects to their society that shows a tremendous level of civilization, sophistication and social advance.
‐‐ Tracy Hickman

I've always been fascinated by the operation of memory - the way in which it is not linear but fragmented, and its ambivalence.
‐‐ Penelope Lively

I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.
‐‐ David Mamet

I've always been fascinated by the way that children and animals suffer stoically in a way that I don't think adults do.
‐‐ Rebecca Miller

I've always been fascinated by totalitarian regimes. I'm not an admirer of them.
‐‐ Sue Townsend

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.
‐‐ Mary Ellen Mark

I've always been fascinated by weather.
‐‐ Shepard Smith

I've always been fascinated by what you can learn from looking into your DNA.
‐‐ Leah Busque

I've always been fascinated by young women who come to New York. The characters in 'Lipstick Jungle' were once young women who came to New York and we see their early experiences through flashbacks.
‐‐ Candace Bushnell