“I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.” ThinkingHas BeensPastEnjoyInterestingGoneStrangePeriodsCreatingPhotographAtmosphereFascinatingSlipsSurrealMost InterestingAmbience Author:Kate Atkinson
“At 13 I was someone that didn't have a personality yet. It's a fascinating period in a human life. It's so exciting because you are in between childhood and adulthood.” HumansChildhoodPersonalityPeriodsExcitingHuman LifeFascinatingAdulthood Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“Ang [Lee] gave us a lot of books about cowboys who had been gay or stories about it and all that stuff. And I just talked to a lot of my friends - who [was] their first, particularly same-sex, first situation. That was fascinating to me - trying to learn what that was in a certain period of time. Certain age. The secrecy involved in it. All those things.” TryingFirstsBookStoriesAgeCertainSexStuffSituationInvolvedPeriodsGayMy FriendsFascinatingCowboySecrecy Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“There was a period of time when I was very political, when I was at the university. It was like the late '60s, early '70s and I was a dissident like everybody else I guess. Now I follow it but there's nothing that really grabs me. The most fascinating thing to me right now is China.” PoliticalPeriodsRight NowLateUniversityChinaFascinatingDissidents Author:Jessica Lange
“It's a fascinating culture [the South in the Civil War period] and so rife with comedic possibilities. And not in a way that...I have no intention of making fun of re-enactors. I think it's more just a celebration of their passion and enthusiasm, which is so infectious and maybe at times a little misguided.” ThinkingWayLittlesWarCulturePassionFunPossibilityPeriodsIntentionSouthEnthusiasmCivil WarFascinatingCelebrationComedicMisguided Author:Ed Helms