“My most recent project has been acting and dancing on VH1's TV series Hit the Floor. On the show, we perform at least one dance number an episode. They are all different themes and different dance styles and keep us literally on our toes. The show is exuberant, exciting, and full of scandal. Tune in and I know you'll get addicted.” KnowsHas BeensDifferentShowsNumbersActingStyleTvsProjectsExcitingDancingSeriesThemeTunesEpisodesToesScandalTv Series Author:Allison Holker
“The continent is incredibly exciting. When I first went there, it consumed me, and I instantly felt like I wanted to be engaged one way or the other, whether on a philanthropic level or business. I'm lucky to say today that I do both. In terms of African Wildlife Foundation, I started working with them roughly around 2009, on the ambassador level. Then I joined the board and was exposed to deeper issues that the Foundation was combating on the continent.” WayFirstsTodayWantedFeltTermLevelsIssuesLuckyExcitingFoundationDeeperOne WayBoardsEngagedExposedContinentsConsumedWildlifeAmbassadorsPhilanthropic Author:Veronika Varekova
“It is exciting to be off to a new land with a new friend.” LandExcitingNew Friends Author:Aidan Gillen
“I don't think we've ever lived in such a dangerous time, on a range of different levels. We also live in an extremely exciting time with a multitude of opportunities for each and every one of us to engage our individual voices, to engage more effectively collectively, to tackle some of these issues that would have seemed beyond our reach just a few years ago.” ThinkingYearsDifferentOpportunityIndividualVoiceLevelsIssuesDangerousYears AgoExcitingRangeMultitudesDifferent Levels Author:Queen Noor of Jordan
“I really feel that actors should really know who they are as characters; they should really study their lines; they should be prepared; but once they come to set, for me the most exciting way to shoot a scene is to really find it, really kind of grind your way through it, until you feel like you have something that you can put together.” KnowsWayFeelsShouldKindCharacterTogetherActorsLinesStudyLike YouSceneExcitingPreparedBe PreparedGrind Author:Oren Moverman
“I come from a little bit of a theatrical background. I started that way. I don't have a tremendous body of work or anything, but I went to drama school. And so, to get to do a piece where the characters get to talk a lot, and that isn't just about the spectacle or the set piece, or is simply visual or movement based. It was really wonderful for me, and juicy and exciting.” WayLittlesCharacterBodySchoolBitsPiecesWonderfulMovementDramaLittle BitExcitingBackgroundsVisualsTheatricalJuicy Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“It's really exciting to be a part of something new that's pushing boundaries.” ExcitingBoundariesPushingSomething NewPushing Boundaries Author:Arthur Darvill
“I grew up loving fantasy, adventure, and children's book series. At the time, I was in a place in LA where I wasn't working and I kind of thought to myself, "What do I really want to do? Like, what kind of role would be really exciting for me?" And I sort of thought about being in an adventurous, magical, fantastical world and a character that was powerful and sophisticated and perhaps even a dandy, that might have even passed in my head, and then I got an audition for the show ["The Magicians"] shortly after.” WorldWantKindChildrenBookCharacterShowsMightWould BePowerfulRolesFantasyAdventureGrewGrew UpExcitingSeriesSophisticatedAuditionsMagicianAdventurousChildren's BooksDandy Author:Hale Appleman
“I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.” IfsLooksArtSchoolDifficultBreakPaintingDutyDrawsFemaleExcitingWesternMalesUpsetFridayTabooTuesdayArt School Author:Peter Greenaway
“I like [that] there's a certain inherent drama to those jobs that is exciting to tell stories about and it's still real life. I'm a little less interested in the current fad of being obsessed with superheroes and things that are so out of the box.” LittlesStillsRealStoriesJobsCertainDramaExcitingCurrentsBoxesReal LifeObsessedInherentSuperheroFads Author:Ethan Hawke
“I love really exploring... you know, a cop drama for example is a great way to explore class in this country and explore, you know, really, identity in the country and who we are in a way that is extremely exciting, but it's also real, you know, it's also real people and real drama. The same with the military. I mean, a good science fiction story is also great.” PeopleKnowsWayMeanRealCountryStoriesFictionClassMilitaryExampleIdentityDramaExcitingScience FictionWho We AreCopExploringReal YouGood ScienceFiction Stories Author:Ethan Hawke
“I think there are lots of opportunities to improve the product. When you read the press, people say, "Oh, the product needs improvement." I look at that and say, "Hey, that's an exciting thing to get behind!" Because they can improve that product. That leaves more upside from an innovation and revenue potential than you're gonna find in a lot of places. So you could say that's a downside, I see that as an opportunity.” PeopleThinkingNeedsLooksOpportunityBehindsProductsExcitingInnovationPressesImprovementHeyRevenueExciting Things Author:Steve Ballmer
“I really wanted to make something that was exciting for everybody, that everybody could enjoy, that was upbeat and positive and that everybody can dance to.” WantedEnjoyExcitingUpbeat Author:Corbin Bleu
“Tribeca has always celebrated the most exciting new forms of storytelling, from video games to virtual reality.” RealityFormGamesExcitingVideoStorytellingVirtual Reality Author:Jane Rosenthal
“Everybody is trying to make something real, something with a core of substance, and of course, an exciting action movie with a lot of terrific stuff and fantastic visuals and everything, but at the core of it, it's a movie with substance and something that is going to make people think.” PeopleThinkingTryingRealActionCoursesStuffExcitingCoreFantasticSubstanceVisualsTerrificAction MovieSomething Real Author:Joel Kinnaman
“Making movies that are really cheap and that can be owned and that you maintain your control of is really exciting.” Exciting Author:Mark Duplass
“The way your parents try to talk to you about politics and pull you to their side, that's an exciting moment in your family.” WayTryingMomentsParentSidesExcitingOur Family Author:Patricia Arquette
“The most exciting part of the casting process was casting out of Israel, which was a really unique process, mainly done remotely from California, looking at casting tapes.” DoneProcessUniqueExcitingIsraelCaliforniaTapeCasting Author:Tim Kring
“With the casting in Israel, sometimes there were four or five people, that you could just flip a coin and choose from, that would have been all terrific. And seeing all of these fabulous faces that the American audiences are just not used to seeing is really exciting.” PeopleHas BeensSometimesFacesUsedAudienceFiveFourSeeingExcitingIsraelFabulousCoinsCastingTerrificFlip Author:Tim Kring
“If I look at the people that I look up to, a lot of them don't come to the forefront until their early to mid-30s. I think the most exciting roles are definitely yet to come.” PeopleIfsThinkingLooksRolesExcitingLook Up Author:Ed Speleers
“I love to play music, and this is fun, and let's record this stuff in a way that we both like. That was exciting enough, so we just recorded it. There was no business in it until the very last minute, really. It was really as much of an extension of me writing the songs in my bedroom as it could possibly be.” WayWritingEnoughPlayLastsSongFunStuffRecordsMinutesExcitingBedroomExtensionsLast Minute Author:Zooey Deschanel
“It's like every time you have one of these, you're sort of - your lease is renewed another five years. And that's kind of great for me 'cause that's all I really want to be doing still at this point, like just making records and getting to work with, like, artists that I think are exciting.” ThinkingWantYearsKindStillsArtistCausesRecordsFiveExcitingFive YearsLease Author:Mark Ronson
“I think, you know, for someone who does play, let's say, old music or, you know, Baroque music or Renaissance music - and you know, and I do play a lot of that, obviously - engaging with new composers, engaging with young composers, is really exciting because it makes me look at people of the past in a very different way that they are also living, that there was a lot of subjectivity in the decisions that they were making.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayLooksDoeDifferentPlayPastYoungDecisionExcitingDifferent WaysComposerEngagingRenaissanceSubjectivityBaroqueOld MusicBaroque Music Author:Mahan Esfahani
“I have lost weight because my events are so exciting. When I'm done I don't want to eat.But I could see how it could go the other way for some people. That's only because their events are boring.” PeopleWayWantDoneLostEventsWeightExcitingBoring Author:Donald Trump
“And Lopate's anthology helped a lot too. It came out the same year I started grad school, and I remember the book's publication feeling eventful and celebratory. It got a ton of attention for giving voice to this form that had sort of slipped between the cracks. That was exciting to see.” GivingYearsBookFeelingsSchoolRememberFormVoiceAttentionExcitingCracksPublicationAnthologyGradGrad SchoolGiving Voice Author:John D'Agata
“That to me was one of the most exciting, and weird puzzles of this book: how are the most religious people and the least religious people of their time all drawn to very similar visions of utopia?” PeopleBookReligiousVisionExcitingPuzzlesUtopia Author:Christine Jennings
“So in that way, fame has become a weirder thing to go after, but the thing about me is I've never been after fame. That sounds cliché, but it's true. I think fame sounds uncomfortable to me, but being able to like write this book and make my living doing very exciting, creative stuff sounds really amazing. It has been really amazing.” ThinkingWayWritingHas BeensBookAbleStuffSoundCreativeFameExcitingUncomfortableReally Amazing Author:Moshe Kasher
“When you're a kid, you think, "Well, I will grow up and I will get a wife and we will have kids and then we will have grandkids." My life has a different shape. That is weird, but there are things about it that are exciting.” ThinkingWellsDifferentKidsGrowsGrowing UpWifeShapesExcitingGrandkids Author:Guy Branum
“I'm excited for the new crop of gay comics who have never been closeted, who never thought that they needed to put on a dress to tell a joke, and it's exciting.” NeededGayJokesExcitingDressesExcitedCrops Author:Guy Branum
“I think Kirk Johnson is a more exciting fighter than Chris Byrd. A lot of people agree with me when it comes to that.” PeopleThinkingExcitingAgreeFighterJohnsonKirk Author:Lennox Lewis
“And, there are negatives and positives to it. Like, you know, just like a marriage, where you're like, "Well, this... you know, is the sex still as exciting as it was two years ago?"” KnowsYearsWellsStillsTwoSexLike YouYears AgoExcitingTwo YearsTwo Years Ago Author:Mark Duplass
“We get to get into the nitty-gritty and the minutiae of the way they relate now, and that's really valuable. We just have to make sure we don't repeat ourselves and we plot this thing so it doesn't dead end too much, and so that's the challenge really. It's like, how do you keep those balls in the air and make it exciting still?” WayStillsEndsChallengesToo MuchAirBallsExcitingValuableRelateRepeatsPlotDead EndsMinutiae Author:Mark Duplass
“It's not so much less pressure, it's less work, which is really exciting to me. I'm just personally looking forward to being able to spend a little more time doing different things, so that's really great. Jay and I are writing a book this year which is really fun and so yeah, I am very excited to spend less crazy 12-hour days on set. Those were taxing times.” WritingYearsLittlesBookDifferentAbleFunHoursCrazyExcitingPressureYeahExcitedDifferent ThingsMore TimeReally GreatLooking ForwardWriting A Book Author:Mark Duplass
“My first big career purchase when I was, like, 17 was a Louis Vuitton laptop bag. Now, seeing the exhibit [Louis Vuitton's "Series 3" exhibition in London], it's exciting because I feel like I kind of know it. It's weird - it's almost like something you grow up with and you just know a little bit about it. Now that I'm immersed in it, it's kind of insane.” KnowsFeelsFirstsKindLittlesBigsGrowsBitsCareersGrowing UpSeeingLittle BitExcitingSeriesLondonInsaneBagsExhibitsLike SomethingExhibitionsLaptopsLouis Vuitton Author:Selena Gomez
“Back in the day however, careers were strictly built on competitions, just like surfing, though surfing is changing too so you can free surf and still get paid. So I think that rivalry was really because of the fans and the media who built it up, but it did bring something exciting about the sport, just like in any sport, whether it's Larry Bird or Magic Johnson, I think it just made skating that much more exciting.” ThinkingMadeStillsSportsCareersMagicFansMediaBirdBuiltExcitingPaidCompetitionSurfingJohnsonSkatingLarrySurfRivalryBack In The Day Author:Christian Hosoi
“As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.” ChildrenBeautifulFoundExcitingMysteriousStationsRailroads Author:Paul Johnson
“I love characters that are very layered and complex. It's more exciting and different than any simple role- plus, I love a good challenge.” DifferentCharacterChallengesSimpleRolesExcitingComplexesPlus Author:Lorraine Toussaint
“I got bored and then joined the British SAS. It was five very exciting years of my life, and then I'd always had this passion for swimming, so started swimming around the world, in some of the most exotic and distant and dangerous locations.” WorldYearsPassionFiveDangerousExcitingBritishAround The WorldBoredSwimmingLocationExotic Author:Lewis Pugh
“I think that no matter what you do, whether you rodeo, whether you work in an office, you work in the oilfield or you play music for a living, eventually if you do enough of it, the devil in the back of your head tries to turn it into work. You have to find new ways to make it new and make it exciting to keep that drive there.” IfsThinkingWayTryingMatterEnoughPlayTurnsOfficeDevilExcitingNo Matter WhatNew WaysRodeo Author:Cody Johnson
“What could make the Napoleonic Wars more exciting? Dragons.” WarExcitingDragonsNapoleonic Author:Naomi Novik
“In the beginning this was just an idea. Then it was a short story. Then it was a script. Each step was pretty exciting to see people come on board to support the project. It's gratifying to know that more people are seeing my work in this form than my work as a playwright. And it's been fun to hear people's response to seeing it. I've been having some deep conversations with strangers and friends about how much it has made them think about slavery and its impact today.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMadeIdeasStoriesTodayFormFunStepsSupportSeeingConversationProjectsExcitingSlaveryImpactResponseScriptsStrangerBoardsShort StoryPlaywrightStrangers And Friends Author:Steven C. Harper
“It was a book [George Packer written on our presence in Nigeria] that was killed by the response of other people. Which sounds quite cowardly, perhaps, but it was the first manifestation of what is currently a really big issue: how political correctness defines the limits of what you can do. In that sense, it was super-exciting and maybe the most magical project we did, but at the same time fraught with mixed feelings.” PeopleFirstsBookFeelingsBigsPoliticalSoundCan DoIssuesWrittenLimitsProjectsExcitingResponseManifestationPolitical CorrectnessCowardlyNigeriaCorrectnessPackersMixed Feelings Author:Rem Koolhaas
“I don't know whether I can say that having a career in philosophy has turned out as I imagined, since in many ways I had little idea of what such a life would be like. But philosophy is still tremendously exciting to me, and the opportunity to think, and talk, and write about these issues has been wonderful.” ThinkingKnowsWayWritingLittlesHas BeensStillsI CanIdeasPhilosophyWould BeOpportunityCareersIssuesWonderfulExciting Author:Hilary Kornblith
“Work on causal theories of knowledge - early work by Armstrong, and Dretske, and Goldman - seemed far more satisfying. As I started to see the ways in which work in the cognitive sciences could inform our understanding of central epistemological issues, my whole idea of what the philosophical enterprise is all about began to change. Quine certainly played a role here, as did Putnam's (pre-1975) work in philosophy of science, and the exciting developments that went on in that time in philosophy of mind.” WayMindIdeasPhilosophyWholeUnderstandingRolesIssuesTheoryDevelopmentExcitingPhilosophicalEnterpriseSatisfyingCognitivePhilosophy Of ScienceArmstrongCognitive ScienceEarly WorkTheory Of Knowledge Author:Hilary Kornblith
“That's like the really fun, exciting thing about wrestling. There's no such thing as perfecting this art. You're constantly growing and you're constantly progressing and changing up you're style and gauging an audience to make sure that audience is enjoying what you're doing.” ArtFunEnjoyAudienceGrowingProgressStyleExcitingWrestlingExciting Things Author:Adam Cole
“However, the positive, and I mean this, Jay Lethal and Kyle O'Reilly are two of my favorite opponents. I couldn't ask for two guys I'd rather be in a triple threat match with. On top of that, creatively, if we are able to make something that's really exciting for the fans, any time there are more bodies in the ring, you can always create something that's different because there's more than two people in the ring.” PeopleIfsMeanTwoDifferentBodyAbleGuyAsksFansExcitingThreatMy FavoriteRingsOpponentsTwo Guys Author:Adam Cole
“So if everything goes off great, then it being a triple threat match will make it even more exciting instead of a singles match.” IfsExcitingThreatSingles Author:Adam Cole
“I found myself recycling ideas and I saw that I had to invent reasons to compose a piece rather than start from some exciting idea.” IdeasReasonFoundSawsPiecesExcitingRecycling Author:Paul Lansky
“I came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in the '70s that pieces I wrote would sound great the first time I listened to them and then on repeated hearings they sounded older and older until what seemed exciting and vibrant on first listening became stale.” ThinkingFirstsProblemProcessSoundPiecesListeningFirst TimeExcitingAgingHearingCriticalStaleAging Process Author:Paul Lansky
“The telling of a good story, especially one that is real and true, is always exciting.” RealStoriesExcitingGood Story Author:Aeriel Miranda