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“Because I do so many action-oriented films, I started working with stunt people doing fight training, then I found it to be just great exercise. Also I like to be fit, so I've continued on with fight training. Right before I got to do 'Conan,' I was fighting off four guys. Its great fun. And strange.”

People Action Film Guy Fighting Found Fun Four Strange Fit Exercise Training Conan Great Exercise

Author:Rose McGowan

“It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance and magic. It's about the soul of America, really. What people brought to America; what found them when they came; and the things that lie sleeping beneath it all.”

People Book Soul America Romance Lying Found Sleep Secret Magic Danger Strange Mirrors Depth

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Porter Rockwell was that most terrible instrument that can be handled by fanaticism; a powerful physical nature welded to a mind of very narrow perceptions, intense convictions, and changeless tenacity. In his build he was a gladiator; in his humor a Yankee lumberman; in his memory a Bourbon; in his vengeance an Indian. A strange mixture, only to be found on the American continent”

Mind Found Memories Powerful Strange Terrible Perception Instruments Conviction Intense Indian Continents Vengeance Yankees Mixtures Fanaticism Tenacity Bourbon

Book:The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle

Source: The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in Oregon, with an Examination of the Mormon Principle

“It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.”

Men Hard Found Names Easy Strange Betrayal Another Man Traitor

Book:The Left Hand of Darkness

Source: The Left Hand of Darkness

“Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual - the Orientals did that.”

Thinking World Way Needs Wells Littles Different Moments Seems Happens Artist Found Growth Natural Modern Strange Method Paint Technique Unusual Usual New Ways Modern Art

Author:Jackson Pollock

“Looking into it a bit, Jamie found that the model used by Wall Street to price LEAPs, the Black-Scholes option pricing model, made some strange assumptions.”

Made Used Found Bits Black Streets Strange Wall Models Assumption Leap Jamie Scholes Pricing

Book:The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

Source: The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)

“Avan was as religious as the next young dragon with his way to make in the world-which is to say that he held many traditional beliefs which he had never paused to examine, attended church because it would have seemed strange not to, rarely paid much attention when he was there, and found piety out of the pulpit thoroughly misplaced.”

World Way Young Next Found Belief Church Religious Attention Strange Paid Traditional Dragons Piety Pulpit Misplaced

Book:Tooth and Claw

Source: Tooth and Claw

“I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.”

Kind Hard Found Born Strange Quiet Shy My Sister

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“Millennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity. We're looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity. Like every generation before ours and every generation after, we're looking for Jesus-the same Jesus who can be found in the strange places he's always been found: in bread, in wine, in baptism, in the Word, in suffering, in community, and among the least of these.”

Suffering Found Jesus Community Christianity Generations Strange Wine Bread Baptism Millennials Strange Places Authentic Christianity

Book:Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

Source: Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

“It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.”

Ideas Found Support Strange Intellectual Difficulty Trade Strikes Liberation Enterprise Propositions Private Sector Free Trade Lending Private Enterprise Tennyson

Author:Germaine Greer

“To handle that stardom, the red carpets, the photo shoots, people all of a sudden recognizing you and following you in everyday life, it's a bit weird. It's strange, and it can have funny effects on you in terms of do you like it or don't you like it. Some people run away from it, some people embrace it; I found a good middle ground.”

“The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.”

Believe Spirit Found Easy Strange Islam Realms Followers

Author:Tahir Shah

“René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.”

Age Religion Found Strange Return Instance Worms Mixtures Mistress Corpses Tombs Jerusalem Pilgrimage Gallantry

Author:Horace Walpole

“Once we have found our passion, we feel a strange contradiction: On one hand, we could die today and life would have been worth it, and at the same time, we want to live forever to continue our connection to our passion.”

Want Feels Has Beens Hands Today Dies Passion Found Forever Strange Connections Contradiction Worth It Live Forever

Author:Janet Hagberg

“I found myself wondering, what would it be like to have a strange woman living in your home, nursing your child? My resulting research into the private lives of women in the 18th and 19th centuries inspired me and provided the backbone for [Lady of Milkweed Manor] novel.”

Children Home Found Wonder Novel Century Strange Research Our Children Inspired Your Children Private Life Nursing 19th Century Backbone Milkweed

Author:Julie Klassen

“But you the pathways of the sky Found first, and tasted heavenly springs, Unfettered as the lark that sings, And knew strange raptures, - though we sigh, "Poor Iccarus!"”

Firsts Found Poor Sky Strange Spring Flight Aviation Heavenly Sigh Pathways Rapture Larks

Author:Florence Earle Coates

“Working with Chaplin was very amusing and strange. His films are so funny, but working with him, I found him to be a very serious man. Whereas the films of Hitchcock are macabre, he could be a very funny man to work with, always telling jokes and holding court. Of course, when I worked with Charlie he was getting older.”

Men Funny Film Courses Found Strange Serious Jokes Court Getting Older Charlie Amusing Hitchcock Chaplin Funny Men Macabre Serious Man

Author:Tippi Hedren

“I'm really into rocks. I have a really serious rock collection. Rocks and feathers and shells and strange found things in nature. I have a lot of those kinds of collections.”

Kind Found Rocks Strange Serious Collections Shells Feathers

Author:Brit Marling

“Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.”

Found Wise Strange Witty Lust Disguise Masque

Book:The Duchess of Malfi

Source: The Duchess of Malfi

“When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.”

Giving Ideas Body Artist Found Names My Own Interesting Effects Objects College Strange Foreigners Making Up Found Objects

Author:Gavin Turk

“My mother was being hounded by a debt collector over a debt that she didn't owe, and she eventually just paid it because she wanted the calls to stop. I was very surprised. It sounded so strange. I started poking around on the internet and found this was extremely common. There was this world where these debts were sold off by the banks for pennies on the dollar and bought and sold.”

World Wanted Mother Found Common This World Strange Internet Paid Dollars Debt Pennies Collectors

Author:Jake Halpern

“The music industry went through such a strange stretch in 1977, especially in this country, with the whole punk rock thing coming about. Punk was rebellious-and justified in that response-but it had very little to do with music, and so it created a highly-charged but frighteningly floundering atmosphere that I found very, very disheartening. Musical quality for me has always been an important part of rock'n'roll-and winning recognition for that has long been an uphill battle all the way. Punk seemed like rock'n'roll utterly without the music.”

“I do preach the idea of individualism as in not adapting any kind of style or model other than that one of your own. I always found it strange in art history when studying about the different guilds and movements. It sounded too contrived and having to follow devised parameters to create art. I personally am not a team player in that manner. The art should be labeled by the artist's name only.”

Should Kind Art Ideas Different Artist Found Names Study Player Team Style Movement Strange Models Individualism Adapting Art History Parameters Team Player Guilds

Author:Adamo Macri

“I think that people like the idea that fans are sort of slightly eccentric and strange, but generally I've just found them very creative and warm and cheerful.”

People Thinking Ideas Found Creative Fans Strange Warm Cheerful Eccentric

Author:Peter Capaldi

“Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?”

“It's a little strange, after all these years of working on camera, but once you start to watch the other people who do this a lot and realize how much of what you're doing has to just come through your voice, I found it really interesting.”

People Years Littles Found Voice Realizing Interesting Watches Strange Cameras Really Interesting

Author:Clark Gregg

“I hate when women compare men to dogs. Men are not dogs. Dogs are loyal. I've never found any strange panties in my dog's house.”

Men Hate Found House Dog Strange I Hate Compare Loyal My Dog Panties

Author:Wanda Sykes

“I've always felt that most jazz artists don't need producers .. most jazz artists know what kind of sound they want. They don't need a producer to come in there and tell them, "Oh, I think you should do this." I've always found it very strange that there's been such a thing as producers in jazz.”

Thinking Knows Want Needs Should Kind Artist Found Felt Sound Strange Jazz Producers

Author:Christian McBride

“I may have been 15 or 16 years old when, on a Sunday morning, I was sitting at home together with my mother and sister, and the floor began to move under us. The hanging lamp swayed. It was very strange. My father came into the room. "It was an earthquake," he said. The center had evidently been at a considerable distance, for the movements felt slow and not shaky. In spite of a great deal of effort, an accurate epicenter was never found. This was my only experience with an earthquake until I became a seismologist 20 years later.”

Years May Has Beens Said Home Together Moving Mother Found Father Felt Rooms Deals Effort Morning Movement Strange Sitting Distance Spite Sunday Accurate Lamps Earthquakes Sunday Morning

Author:Inge Lehmann

“I find it strange that - at least in my take on it - the people who are the most alarmed about the dire times we live in are the ones who seem to be humorless, in their taste for poetry anyway. Humor is just an ingredient. It's always been in poetry. It kind of dropped out of poetry I think during the 19th and up to the mid-twentieth century. But it's found its way back. And it's simply an ingredient.”

People Thinking Way Kind Seems Found Century Strange Taste Ingredients Twentieth Century

Author:Billy Collins

“I've found that I seek out oddballs; I like strange and eccentric people a lot.”

People Found Strange Eccentric Oddballs

Author:Arthur Bradford

“In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go, "That's so strange. This poem looks so much like my grandfather's poem."”

Looks School Found Given Teacher Strange High School Grandfather Given Up My Grandfather Anthology

Author:Edward Hirsch

“I found during the course of my political career on the national scene there's a point where the vanity burns away and you've had your fill of your name in the papers, or big adoring crowds, or the exercise of power. And for me that happened fairly quickly. And then you are really focused on: What am I going to get done with this strange privilege that's been granted to me? How do I make myself worthy of it?”

Done Bigs Political Courses Found Names Careers Happened Strange Exercise Scene Paper Privilege Crowds Worthy Focused Granted Vanity Papers

Author:Barack Obama

“I came home [after funerals] and I thought if I go back to California, where I had a small house, I don't think I'll ever come east again. So I decided to stay and go through the halls and stairways, talk to Gilda Radner, holler, express some of my anger and make sure there were no ghosts in the hallways that I should ever be afraid of.And then I found out - it sounds strange, but I found out she had left me the house. We never talked about her dying and what she was going to leave me or I would ever leave her. We just didn't talk about those things.”

Ifs Thinking Should Home Found House Left Sound Dying Strange Decided East Ghost California Halls Funeral Leaving Me Hallways Stairways

Author:Gene Wilder

“This is going to sound strange, but I really feel I know Roland very well. In Wizard and Glass, I got to know the young Roland, and then as I traveled with him from Eluria (found in the story "The Little Sisters of Eluria") through Tull and the Mohaine Desert (The Gunslinger), and then all the way to the Dark Tower.”

Knows Way Feels Wells Littles Stories Young Found Sound Dark Strange Glasses Desert Towers Traveled Wizards Little Sister Dark Tower Gunslinger

Author:Robin Furth

“I have actually found myself buying up more and more old analogue gear. I have this strange obsession with old drum machines.”

Found Strange Machines Obsession Buying Gears Analogue

Author:Moby

“Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.”

Two Today Christian Found United Party Common Enemy Economic Strange Republican Democratic Libertarian Republican Party Democratic Party Common Enemy Bedfellows Strange Bedfellows

Author:Steven Pinker

“Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.”

Men Giving Years Hard Found Born Strange Birth Forgiving Fruit Ancient Protest Hard Things Through The Years Matriarchs

Author:Lillian Smith

“But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange.”

Thinking Bigs Found Deals Attitude Strange Band Big Deal

Author:Rob Zombie

“It is not a sudden leap from sick to well. It is a slow, strange meander from sick to mostly well. The misconception that eating disorders are a medical disease in the traditional sense is not helpful here. There is no 'cure'. A pill will not fix it, though it may help. Ditto therapy, ditto food, ditto endless support from family and friends. You fix it yourself. It is the hardest thing that I have ever done, and I found myself stronger for doing it. Much stronger.”

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