Exciting Quotes

• There's something fascinating about seeing something you don't like at first but directly know you will love—in time. People are that way, all through life. You come against a personality, and it questions yours. You shy away but know there are gratifying secrets there, and the half-open door is often more exciting than the wide.

  

  Vincent Price
  • People
  • Personality
  • Secret

• For me, it's the unexpected and surprising combinations of produce that are the most exciting and lure me into the kitchen for a little bit of experimenting. Apples and sweet potatoes together? Who knew? Carrots with grapes? Okay. I may not be Julia Child, but I can do pretty well with a simple recipe and a lot of enthusiasm.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Children
  • May
  • Together

• I can't know what I'm going to do before I'm in front of the lens. And I think that sort of makes it exciting.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • I Think
  • Exciting
  • Lens

• I'd gone from being a normal HR worker from Hull to being recognised in the street, being on TV. As much as it was exciting, thrilling, and a big, huge adrenaline rush.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • Being
  • Big
  • Normal

• I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Play

• I go to the Golden Globes, the Grammys, all the awards shows. Just stuff you would never get to do as a regular person were things that were really exciting for me.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • Shows
  • Grammys
  • Golden Globes

• I think all the stuff that happens before the pictures are taken is much more exciting.

  

  Georgia May Jagger
  • Happens
  • Exciting
  • Pictures

• Cities are about juxtaposition. In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like. In Bordeaux, we built law courts right next door to what is effectively a listed historic building, and that makes it exciting.

  

  Richard Rogers
  • Classical
  • Florence
  • Juxtaposition

• So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the penalty we pay for breaking with tradition, and the solitude makes the writing more exciting though the being read less so. One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with ones words.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Writing
  • Tradition
  • Bottom

• The difficult thing was deciding what to leave off! I just ultimately tried to strike a balance between what was interesting to hard core fans, and what was exciting to first timers and what I liked.

  

  Marco Adam and the Ants
  • Interesting
  • Balance
  • Difficult

• What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Age

• I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an inefficient way to write a book, though I found it exciting.

  

  William Manchester
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Sometimes

• Sometimes my interest in working on a film is not always dictated specifically by the character. Sometimes it's simply about wanting to be a part of a vision that I love, or a script that I love. I find exciting and gratifying.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Character
  • Vision
  • Interest

• One of the main reasons that I love doing what I do is because it's unpredictable and I don't know what's coming next. When you're creating work, it's up to you whether it's an exciting experience or not.

  

  KT Tunstall
  • Experience
  • Reason
  • Creating

• Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.

  

  Willa Cather
  • People
  • Art
  • Eye

• Like everyone is either, "I grew up with it," or "I loved it," or loved them now. And when you watch The Muppet Movie now, it is so current. It's like The Simpsons before The Simpsons. It's not as cynical as The Simpsons would be but it's self-aware and there are a billion jokes, it breaks the fourth wall every five minutes, it's astounding, it's awesome. It's very exciting to be a part of that.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Wall
  • Break
  • Jokes

• Being a pedestrian again is very exciting because in L.A. you live in your car, and you're on a freeway all the time.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • Car
  • Freeways
  • Pedestrians

• I don't have to come back, because I am still here! And I'm not an '80s thing. I already worked with my first band back in East Germany and that was soooo '70s, young man. I'm a '70s thing. If I'm a thing at all... and an exciting thing.

  

  Nina Hagen
  • Men
  • Band
  • East

• I get psyched about coming onto a Broadway stage every night. it's very exciting. You develop a kind of gratefulness for it when you spend months trying to get a job.

  

  Sebastian Stan
  • Trying
  • Night
  • Kind

• Theatre for a New Audience is one of America's most admirable and exciting theatre companites...some of the best acted and directed work to be found on American stages, engaging with the canon of world dramatic literature in a vigorous way.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • World
  • Work
  • American

• My wigs are ever changing in height, width, color, size. They make me feel happy. Wearing them makes me feel like I can be a different person every day and that is kind of exciting.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Kind

• To just write one song to then go and play huge festivals all around the world it's exciting and it's never really been the case.

  

  Jade Puget Blaqk Audio
  • World
  • Writing
  • Song

• A long, healthy, and happy life is the result of making contributions, of having meaningful projects that are personally exciting and contribute to and bless the lives of others.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Life
  • Healthy
  • Results

• Not only do we end up with a vivid, surprising and soulful sense of one artist and his work, but Leigh also offers us a commanding view of a city, London, and country at the dawn of the modern age and of a man being overawed and overtaken by new technologies such as photography and the railways. As ever with Leigh, 'Mr Turner' addresses the big questions with small moments. It's an extraordinary film, all at once strange, entertaining, thoughtful and exciting.

  

  Dave Calhoun
  • Country
  • Technology
  • Photography

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