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“That's what I think people sense when they get hooked by surfing - hooked by their relationship with the ocean. All of a sudden, they're part of something that's bigger than them.”

People Thinking Sports Ocean Bigger Inspirational Sports Surfing Hooked

Author:Nick Carroll

“A good or great performance is like peeling an onion; in every scene you reveal another layer, something the audience hasn't seen until then. They stay involved because they are constantly learning about and discovering the character they are watching. They can't take you for granted and it keeps them hooked.”

Character Audience Involved Scene Performances Granted Discovering Layers Hooked Onions Peeling Great Performance Constantly Learning Peeling An Onion

Author:Larry Moss

“When I was young, my mother [folk singer Kate McGarrigle] brought home this recording of Verdi's Requiem and we listened to it from top to bottom. By the end of it, I was a completely different person. It was literally a requiem mass for my former self. I was about 12 or 13. The Requiem just totally hooked into what I was going through emotionally - discovering my sexuality right at the time when AIDS was devastating my community and dealing with intense parental situations.”

Persons Different Ends Self Home Young Mother Community Situation Mass Bottom Folks Sexuality Aids Singers Intense Former Discovering Kate Hooked Parental Requiem Verdi

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“Traveling around, it can get very stressful sometimes, and I found yoga, thank God, like a couple of years ago. I went to my first yoga class, and I got hooked on it, and I go almost every day when I'm in New York. I find that it really balances me. And also, morning meditation.”

Years Firsts Sometimes Found Class Morning Meditation New York Couple Balance Yoga Years Ago Thank God Stressful Hooked

Author:Valentina Zelyaeva

“I was a tomboy growing up and then fell into the world of theatre and musical theatre. A girlfriend introduced me to yoga in college and I was hooked. I didn't really know anything about it except that it was the highlight of my week. I ended up graduating from the University of Virginia and moving to Los Angeles where I could continue acting and do a yoga teacher training. I went from practicing once or twice a week to several hours everyday. I loved it.”

“I think there's great stuff on television. I'm hooked on all these shows. I love watching these shows.”

Thinking Shows Stuff Television Hooked

Author:Rob Reiner

“You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling”

People Majors Population Gambling Hooked Casinos

Author:John Warren Kindt

“I found that I loved producing that kind of propaganda and I loved the power that a few students with a Macintosh computer could wield. I was hooked on communications at that point.”

Kind Found Students Communication Computer Propaganda Hooked Macintosh Macintosh Computers

Author:Lewis Schiff

“The critiques I received from my father's community didn't actually have to do with any of the things I'd been afraid of - spiritual or cultural aspects - they were more annoyed that I'd killed off this character or those characters hadn't hooked up or I'd done an open ending and it didn't give them a sense of closure that they were expecting.”

Giving Done Character Spiritual Father Community Aspect Expecting Critique Annoyed Hooked Closure

Author:Eden Robinson

“God has hooked me up.He has the life by design.”

Design Hooked

Author:Paula White

“Now, of course, you have guidance devices and all sorts of things. The soul would be more like the way this is all hooked together, a system of coordination.”

Way Soul Would Be Together Courses Guidance Devices Hooked Coordination

Author:Dallas Willard

“I enjoyed [playing lawyer in From The Hip] as an ode to my dad. My dad went to Harvard and Harvard Law School, so he had some friends that practiced in Boston. So, there was a big law firm that he hooked me up with the senior partner, then the senior partner hooked me up with a young lawyer who worked in the firm. And the young lawyer was married to a public defender. So I would hang out with them, and I could see both sides of it, those that are corporate attorneys and those that help the poor and the disenfranchised.”

“I got hooked on TV westerns back in the early sixties when I was about five, mostly because my brother was addicted to them and wouldn't let me watch anything else.”

Watches Five Brother Tvs Let Me My Brother Sixty Hooked

Author:Elizabeth Crook

“[Juan Wauters] got the tips for Queens because he grew up there.So him and my roommate, Matt Volz, they hooked me up, New York Style.”

Style New York Grew Grew Up Queens Hooked Juan Roommate

Author:Mac DeMarco

“Honestly, I really didn't want to take on World War II France, but when I came across the story of a nineteen-year-old Belgian woman who created an escape route out of Nazi-Occupied France, I was hooked.”

World Want Years War Stories Honestly France War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I Nazi Routes Hooked Nineteen Belgians

Author:Megan Chance

“Somehow we allow, if a character goes to the dark side, if we're hooked into that character - I'm obsessed with Peaky Blinders. Those characters are awful, and yet you root for them. You love them! Same with Breaking Bad. That's not as easy in a feature.”

Ifs Character Easy Sides Dark Roots Awful Features Obsessed Dark Side Hooked Blinders

Author:Lauren Shuler Donner

“When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.”

Economics Management Remains Reputation Brilliance Hooked

Author:Warren Buffett

“Of course the concept is to give people samples to get them hooked, I get that. But to continuously give away our music, that's the reason why you don't see [many] rap award shows anymore, the reason that you don't see rappers in commercials anymore; because we have allowed our music to be devalued.”

People Giving Reason Shows Courses Concepts Rap Reason Why Awards Rapper Hooked Sample Award Shows

Author:David Banner

“I fell into TV quite by accident but once I was in a newsroom for the very first time, I was hooked because I loved the adrenaline. There was a breaking story that day and people were running around to get the news on the air. I thought, Jesus, how do you get to do this? So, that's how it started. The bulk of my career was in TV.”

People Firsts Stories Running Jesus Careers Air Tvs News First Time Accidents Adrenaline Hooked

Author:Gayle King

“If you would've asked me about getting a pilot's license before 2005, I'd say you were crazy. After I graduated college, a fighter pilot asked me if I wanted to go up on a flight in a single-engine plane. I always had a fear about being in an airplane, but I took this opportunity to go up on my first flight in a single-engine rather than a big commercial plane I was accustomed to. I was hooked and made a commitment to become a pilot. I wanted to motivate others to not let fear stand in the way of their opportunities.”

Ifs Way Firsts Made Bigs Wanted Opportunity Crazy College Commitment Flight Fighter Planes Engines Pilots Airplane Accustomed License Hooked Fighter Pilot

Author:Jessica Cox

“I mean, look at the people we celebrate - a lot of people who really don't do anything. They just walk the red carpets and go to all the parties, and they're hooked up with the right people, so they're celebrities. But what for?”

People Looks Mean Walks Party Red Celebrate Carpet Hooked Red Carpet

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.”

Heard Beats Hotel Hospitality Redneck Hooked Great Beatles

Author:Paul McCartney

“Growing up on stage, I was introduced to makeup at a young age and I will never forget the first time I tried on a L'Oreal Paris iconic lipstick - it was instant glamour and I've been hooked ever since.”

Firsts Age Young Forget Growing Up Growing Stage First Time Paris Instant Makeup Never Forget Young Age Glamour Lipstick Hooked Iconic

Author:Lea Michele

“I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.”

Remember Film Mother Seeing Ballet Opera Hooked Chaplin Mgm

Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“I got so passionate about technology. Hacking to me was like a video game. It was about getting trophies. I just kept going on and on, despite all the trouble I was getting into, because I was hooked.”

Games Technology Trouble Passionate Video Despite Trophies Hooked Hacking Computer Hacking

Author:Kevin Mitnick

“I was a fan of 'Six Feet Under' and was very sad when it ended, so I was not ready to switch my allegiance to another show. So I was like, 'I'm not watching this 'True Blood.'' Then a friend got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes, and by the third one, I was irrevocably hooked.”

Firsts Shows Four Blood Feet Fans Ready Six Thirds Copies Episodes Allegiance Not Ready Hooked Very Sad Six Feet Under

Author:Denis O'Hare

“After I got my first laugh on stage, I was hooked.”

Firsts Laughing Stage Hooked

Author:Matthew Perry

“I found golf late in life, in 1990. I took some lessons and struggled. Then one day, I hit a drive that was so crisp and clean, with no vibration. There's no feeling like it. I was hooked.”

Feelings Found Lessons One Day Late Clean Golf Vibrations Hooked Crisps

Author:Dennis Quaid

“Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.”

Passion Pleasure Violence Tenderness Hooked

Author:Isabelle Adjani

“If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.”

Ifs Made Band Runners Hooked Runner Up

Author:Jack Black

“Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure machine and they'd rile me. I'd yell and scream, and then it would just go back to normal in a few minutes. Everything else is probably rotting, but the blood pressure is spectacular.”

Blood Minutes Normal Machines Pressure Asking Interviews Scream Spectacular Hooked Rotting Blood Pressure

Author:Lewis Black

“My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.”

Firsts Eye Mother Born Saws Eight Rings Engagement Hooked Baby Girl Jewellery Engagement Day

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.”

Politics President Trouble Serious Hooked Junkie Bummer

Book:The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

“I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck up all my time.”

Want Watches Tvs Series My Time Hooked Tv Series

Author:M. Ward

“I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.”

Book Kids Age Dad My Dad Comic Hospitals Comic Book Hospitality Hooked

Author:Len Wein

“All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.”

Self Generations Expression Endless Appetite Self Expression Rubbish Hooked Moron

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“I love words. Sudoku I don't get into, I'm not into numbers that much, and there are people who are hooked on that. But crossword puzzles, I just can't - if I get a puppy and I paper train him and I put the - if all of a sudden I'd open the paper and there's a crossword puzzle - 'No, no, you can't go on that, honey. I'll take it.'”

People Ifs Numbers Goes On Paper Train Honey Puzzles Puppy Hooked Crosswords

Author:Betty White

“There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.”

Ifs Years Real Guy Found Goes On Drink Taste Fats Beer Diets Whiskey Hooked Scotch Drinking Whiskey Whiskey Drinking Tequila Scotch Whiskey Scotch Whisky

Author:Ron White

“I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Persons America Young Father Causes Sports Voice Numbers Rich Adults Connections Baseball Radio Foxes Jimmy Hooked Peg Metropolitan

Author:George Will

“I love the French detective series 'Spiral.' It's quite brutal to watch, but I'm already hooked.”

Watches Series Brutal Detectives Hooked Spirals

Author:Robert Winston

“I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.”

People Humor Light Funny Behinds Gone Comedy Car Gas Hooked Brake Pedals

Author:Steven Wright

“Making loans accessible to millions of the previously unbankable customers is a noble goal. Getting them hooked to such loans isn't.”

Goal Millions Customers Noble Loan Hooked

Author:Evgeny Morozov

“Friend, you're HOPELESSLY hooked!”

Hooked

Author:Oliver James

“I think we're all hooked, I feel my own hook-ness on immediate gratification you know. I want what I want.”

Thinking Knows Want Feels My Own Hook Gratification Hooked Immediate Gratification

Author:Jeff Bridges

“If you're like me, I get hooked into to-do lists, you know. I'll say I checked that off. Okay, I did that. And you have all these things you're doing.”

Ifs Knows Okay Lists Like Me Hooked

Author:Jeff Bridges

“There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C...(before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy.... Well, this one left them all behind.”

Wells Has Beens Left Difficult Behinds Five Couple Kissing Precise Controversy Thumbs Difficult Things Rating Hooked Princess Bride

Book:The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

“It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.”

Hard Happenings Fishes Hooked

Book:the Human Mind

Source: the Human Mind

“a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back and fill in what happened before the hook. Once you have the reader hooked, you can write whatever you want as you slowly reel them in.”

Want Should Writing Stories Happened Middle Reader Draws Starting Hook Hooked Good Writers

Book:Peak

Source: Peak

“There have been five great kisses since 1642 B.C. when Saul and Delilah Korn's inadvertent discovery swept across Western civilization. (Before then couples hooked thumbs.) And the precise rating of kisses is a terribly difficult thing, often leading to great controversy, because although everyone agrees with the formula of affection times purity times intensity times duration, no one has ever been completely satisfied with how much weight each element should receive. But on any system, there are five that everyone agrees deserve full marks. Well, this one left them all behind.”

Source: The Princess Bride

“I'll bet there aren't too many people hooked on crack who can play the bagpipes.”

People Play Cracks Hooked Bagpipes

Book:Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

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