Henry Louis Gates Quotes
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When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'
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I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.
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I kind of discovered Kolkata when I was shooting here for 'Kahaani.' I found the city fascinating.
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I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to me.
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Rihanna is mysterious and fascinating
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They kept looking at me, as if to say, 'What family is he from?' it was fascinating.
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The game, let's say, of trying to state photographic problems is, for me, absolutely fascinating.
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When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
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Forensics I've always found absolutely fascinating. Anything to do with clues. And checking things out and solving.
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It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.
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My brother lived in a dry gulch where the world of socks and shoes became extremely fascinating, and he felt that everyone needs a good pair of socks, and why not limit his gift giving to something that everybody needs? He thought that there was something humorous about it. So he gives socks.
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Things that never interested you before become fascinating because you know they are important to this person who is so special to you. You think of this person on every occasion and in everything you do. Simple things bring them to mind like a pale blue sky, gentle wind or even a storm cloud on the horizon.
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A man nearly sixty is just as ready to suppose himself fascinating as a man of twenty.
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Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.
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When you make a mistake, throw your hands in the air and say "How fascinating!"
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My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating.
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Playing the bad guys tend to be fascinating. Figuring out what makes them do the things they do is what interests me.
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[The heart is] really a fascinating organ. It's about the only organ in the body that you can really witness its function. Doing things. And so on. Some of the other organs you can witness, like the intestines, will have this sort of peristaltic motion. But nothing that can compare with the activity of the human heart.
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It was an endless, consuming nightmare that she escaped only in madness. And then the escape was not complete. Part of her knew, always.
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I like to sit in front of the computer, going through files of music, and recording the final vocals, guitars and what- nots. But the windows are always open and you can hear the crickets, birds, chickens, and even the sound of rain hitting the studio. The farm is a great place to hang out in, learn from and create music.
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While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.
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It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed to it by the founders of the Republic.
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It's fascinating how life works.
