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“There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.”

Shows Kids Night Sound Effects Horror Ten Radio Scary Clock Scare Thrilling Creepy Sound Effects

Author:Jessica Hagedorn

“Feast of the Holy Innocents The most thrilling thing you can ever do is win someone to Christ. And it's contagious. Once you do it, you don't want to stop.”

Want Winning Christ Holy Thrilling Contagious

Author:Luis Palau

“The real world just doesn’t offer up as easily the carefully designed pleasures, the thrilling challenges, and the powerful social bonding afforded by virtual environments. Reality doesn’t motivate us as effectively. Reality isn’t engineered to maximize our potential. Reality wasn’t designed from the bottom up to make us happy.”

World Real Reality Social Challenges Pleasure Powerful Environment Offers Bottom Real World Thrilling Bonding

Book:Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

Source: Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

“We now know that the way to help a child develop optimally is to help create connections in her brain—her whole brain—that develop skills that lead to better relationships, better mental health, and more meaningful lives. You could call it brain sculpting, or brain nourishing, or brain building. Whatever phrase you prefer, the point is crucial, and thrilling: as a result of the words we use and the actions we take, children’s brains will actually change, and be built, as they undergo new experiences.”

Knows Way Children Whole Helping Use Action Results Brain Building Skills Built Connections Mental Health Meaningful Phrases Crucial Thrilling Meaningful Life New Experiences Sculpting

Author:Daniel J. Siegel

“The gorgeous breathlessness and thrilling pulse -- those are sensations that the years have layered on top of the initial emptiness, like sheet after sheet of silk covering a bare table. More than fifty years later I can only see the cloth; the table has been obscured.”

Years Has Beens I Can Tables Fifty Emptiness Sensations Sheets Gorgeous Initials Thrilling Pulse Covering Silk

Author:Tash

“The world is filled with interesting things to do. Don't lead a dull life in such a thrilling world.”

World Interesting Filled Things To Do Dull Thrilling Interesting Things Dull Life

Author:Dale Carnegie

“My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.”

Years Together Training Math Academic Formal Thrilling Tutorial

Author:Ann Druyan

“It's a great way to start the day, hearing you've been nominated for an Emmy. It's just thrilling.”

Way Hearing Thrilling Great Day Start The Day Emmys

Author:Allison Janney

“The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.”

Inspiration Artist Painting Materials Activity Thrilling

Author:Mervyn Levy

“Fairies, arouse! Mix with your song Harplet and pipe, Thrilling and clear, Swarm on the boughs! Chant in a throng! Morning is ripe, Waiting to hear.”

Song Waiting Morning Clear Fairy Thrilling Pipe Ripe Swarms

Book:Songs, Ballads, and Stories: Including Many Now First Collected, the Rest Revised and Rearranged

Source: Songs, Ballads, and Stories: Including Many Now First Collected, the Rest Revised and Rearranged

“The first gatherings of the garden in May of salads, radishes and herbs made me feel like a mother about her baby - how could anything so beautiful be mine. And this emotion of wonder filled me for each vegetable as it was gathered every year. There is nothing that is comparable to it, as satisfactory or as thrilling, as gathering the vegetables one has grown.”

Feels Years Firsts May Made Beautiful Mother Emotion Wonder Mines Baby Garden Filled Vegetables Gathering Thrilling Herbs Salad Like A Mother Radishes

Author:Alice B. Toklas

“I think of making love and making art as being very parallel. Even the most amateur attempt can be thrilling.”

Thinking Art Making Love Parallels Thrilling

Author:Julia Cameron

“And I saw Australia anew through her eyes. And I realised what a tremendously thrilling country it was. And ever since then I have been coming back regularly.”

Has Beens Art Country Eye Saws Australia Her Eyes Coming Back Thrilling Realised

Author:Robert Helpmann

“It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before.”

Knows World Wells Finding Yourself Angle Thrilling

Book:At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Source: At Home: A Short History of Private Life

“I was taken by William Burroughs’ presence and intelligence from the first time I was introduced to him, by Lester Bangs in 1975. He was thrilling to listen to. When you heard him speak, you felt that you were privy to such a rare mind. Even in small-talk, he spoke with perfect economy of language. His shoots with me were very collaborative and it was an incredible opportunity to be able to photograph him over the course of twenty years.”

Years Mind Firsts Able Courses Opportunity Speak Language Felt Perfect Economy Taken Heard First Time Twenties Incredibles Photograph Spokes Bangs Thrilling Small Talk Burroughs

Author:Kate Simon

“The future is full of possibility, whether you make one tiny change - or a whole invigorating, thrilling, inspiring bunch of them.”

Whole Possibility Tiny Bunch Thrilling Invigorating

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“I want life thrilling and rich. And it is. I make sure it is.”

Want Rich Thrilling

Author:David Hockney

“The internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make us feel we're part of the medium. The scary thing is, we'll lose our right to privacy. An ad will appear in the air around us, talking directly to us.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Loses Talking Air Television Internet Scary Mediums Privacy Ads Site Thrilling Scary Things Right To Privacy

Author:Steven Spielberg

“What a moment to take the newspaper in one hand and the Bible in the other and watch the unfolding of the great drama of the ages. This is an exciting and thrilling time to be alive. I would not want to live in any other period.”

Want Moments Hands Age Watches Alive Periods Drama Exciting Newspapers Thrilling Unfolding

Book:Billy Graham in Quotes

Source: Billy Graham in Quotes

“Grease is one of the movies that made me want to be an entertainer, and I have literally been waiting my whole life to play Sandy. My siblings and I watched it and played it out over and over when we were kids. This is my dream role and performing it live on television will be one of the most thrilling opportunities I’ve had in my career so far.”

Want Made Play Whole Dream Kids Opportunity Waiting Careers Roles Television Whole Life Performing Thrilling Sibling Entertainers Grease Sandy My Siblings

Author:Julianne Hough

“The world is grand, awfully big and astonishingly beautiful, frequently thrilling.”

World Bigs Beautiful Thrilling

Author:Dorothy Kilgallen

“It's a thrilling world, and people really like stories about secrets, which is the essence of a spy drama.”

People World Stories Secret Drama Essence Spy Thrilling

Author:Andrew Scott

“Lexicon grabbed me with the opening lines, and never let go. An absolutely thrilling story, featuring an array of compelling characters in an eerily credible parallel society, punctuated by bouts of laugh-out-loud humor.”

Character Stories Lines Laughing Letting Go Opening Loud Compelling Parallels Thrilling Credible Laugh Out Loud Never Let Go Lexicon

Author:Chris Pavone

“There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.”

Knows Men Dream Sea Flying Sensations Sailing Thrilling Sailor Sailors And The Sea

Book:Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“It was a roller-coaster process. For a long time I had no idea what I was doing. I wasn't writing with an outline. And, rare for me, I wrote scenes out of sequence. . . . I didn't understand the play when I wrote it. It was something I'd give in to. It happens to me periodically. I give over and write whatever comes to me and I don't know what it means and then I do. It's thrilling.”

Knows Giving Writing Mean Long Ideas Play Happens Process Scene Long Time Crafts No Idea Sequence Thrilling Outlines Roller Coaster Coasters

Author:David Rabe

“I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for the abusive, the insane, and the despotic. All challenges easily as thrilling to me as scrambling over icy rock in a pair of barely adequate boots.”

Challenges Rocks Tests Illness Betrayal Insane Sufficient Pairs Boots Adequate Thrilling Valor Abusive Icy Searching For Love Mettle

Book:Fraud: Essays

Source: Fraud: Essays

“I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way.”

Thinking Way Art Dying Admire Things To Do Thrilling Really Cool Cool Things

Author:Tina Fey

“I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement.”

Years Stills Ten Thrilling Gigs

Author:Al Roker

“Switching from one career to another can be scary, but it also can be a thrilling experience. Look at it as an opportunity to really go after what you want to accomplish in life and make a difference in the world. The key is to take small, conscious steps and prepare yourself for a successful transition.”

World Want Inspirational Looks Opportunity Differences Steps Careers Successful Keys Conscious Scary Accomplish What You Want Making A Difference Transition Thrilling Switching

Author:Jack Canfield

“I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach the mystery of the mind.”

Mind Country Might Mystery Approach I Realized Nervous Mechanism Thrilling Nervous System

Book:Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain

Source: Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain

“It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of it.”

Knows Moments Next Knowing Submit Not Knowing Thrilling

Author:Norbert Leo Butz

“I've done a show at the Largo Theater called The 'Thrilling Adventure Hour.' We read, like, radio teleplays. It's a send-up of radio dramas from the '30s and '40s. We just did a Kickstarter for that so that we can do a web series and a concert film.”

Done Shows Film Can Do Hours Adventure Drama Theater Series Radio Concerts Thrilling Kickstarter

Author:Paget Brewster

“The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling.”

Giving Writing Games Acting Creative Directors Shots Give Me Chess Thrilling Pawns Chess Game Creative Freedom

Author:Amber Benson

“I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling.”

People Made Found Millions Instant Score Thrilling Occasional

Author:Elmer Bernstein

“Part of the reason why I love acting is that you do hope that somehow your work will connect to people and somehow expand their consciousness somewhat, and being able to challenge notions of prejudice through work - through my work - is really thrilling.”

People Reason Able Challenges Acting Consciousness Prejudice Notion Reason Why Thrilling

Author:Gwendoline Christie

“I've got nothing against big-budget values. I mean, I was very proud of The Avengers, the part that I played in it, albeit a small one. It was thrilling to be part of it. But it's so huge that you can never really wrap your mind around it.”

Mind Mean Bigs Values Huge Proud Budgets Thrilling Wraps Avengers

Author:Alexis Denisof

“Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you're actively miserable.”

Thinking Sometimes Artist Fighting Longing Miserable Bloody Biographies Thrilling Booze Fireworks

Author:Lauren Groff

“My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?”

Ifs Wells Bigs Actors Can Do Party Wonder Cases Pieces Transformation Instinct Primaries Substance Performers Thrilling

Author:Colin Firth

“I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.”

People Persons Flying Hiding Locks Thrilling

Author:Jane Horrocks

“That's an amazing moment, the first time you hear yourself on radio. It's still thrilling.”

Firsts Stills Moments First Time Radio Thrilling

Author:Janis Ian

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