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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
Zach Braff
Tags: Me Think Who
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What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.


Avery Brooks
Tags: History Being Am
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The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.


Piet Mondrian
Tags: He Artist Express
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'


Ian Hacking
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I have survivor's curiosity, I guess.


George H. W. Bush
'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
Manny Farber
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
Vikram Seth
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Even though I don't believe in God, I feel strangely compelled to fight the atheist label.


Amber Heard
Tags: God Feel Even
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
Fred Allen
Tags: Time History Age
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.


Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tags: Every Secret Wait
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My career has had a lot of ups and downs, but basically it has been wonderful.


Jean Simmons
Tags: Had Been Lot
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I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me.


Joseph Epstein
Tags: Me Out Been
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I usually describe myself as an engineer; that's basically what I've been doing since I was a kid.


Elon Musk
Tags: Been Doing Myself
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My curiosity sustains me for the period of the shoot.


Daniel Day-Lewis
Tags: Me Period Shoot
My mother was a first-grade teacher, so I credit her with this lifelong intellectual curiosity I have, and love of reading and learning.
Chesley Sullenberger
Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back?
Henry Cabot Lodge
Tags: Great Peace Had
I don't really have a preferred genre. It's more up to the individual project itself and if I feel compelled by it.
Marco Beltrami
Tags: More Really Up
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Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.


Genevieve Gorder
Tags: Any Found Intense
What you need to be a good photographer is an overwhelming curiosity and a good digestion. Sometimes you feel blessed with curiosity, sometimes you feel cursed with it.
Eve Arnold
Tags: Good You Feel
I have been expelled from five different schools when I was a kid. And I learned basically all what I do by myself.
Philippe Petit