I was always fascinated, even as a child, by antiques and ancient times. I always felt I should have been born in the 17th or 18th century. They really had a big stone castle with authentic furniture.
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Related I have always been fascinated with dreams. Even as a kid, I had a book by Edgar Cayce, and even boug... DAN WEAVER I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project. SHAKIRA I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the... EMILIE DE RAVIN One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century... CLEMENT ATTLEE My mom had done some TV and commercials before I was born, and so when I was born, she knew I had a ... QUINN SHEPHARD People have always been resistant to change. If you go back to the 17th, 18th century, playing guita... MOBY But I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the... CHRISTOPHER NOLAN I have been interested in dreams, really since I was a kid. I have always been fascinated by the ide... CHRISTOPHER NOLAN Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. OVID As a former English major, I have always been fascinated by the connections between literature and h... NATHANIEL PHILBRICK I've always been conservative. I was born that way. RALPH HALL These songs have always been with me. They have helped me through some rough times. When I felt like... AARON NEVILLE Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time... , ALWAYS NOW, 1997 I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time. JOHNNY DEPP Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother... DWAYNE HICKMAN If you go to old houses on Long Island you will see painted Chinese wallpaper, which was big in the ... CATHERINE MARTIN I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense ... JACK W. SZOSTAK I've always been fascinated by everything with wings. DOLLY PARTON When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human l... NATHANIEL BRANDEN I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born. HENRY DAVID THOREAU I was clearly fascinated by him, but had the strange sense that he was equally fascinated by me. As ... JACOB WREN I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a b... SALMAN RUSHDIE There are good kids here at Stone High. They always played hard. I have had a lot of good times. It'... GREG AMACKER My wife and I have always been Anglophiles. We always felt we were born in another life in England. ... ROBERT VAUGHN I'd been born in the wrong century, and I felt cheated. RANSOM RIGGS I've always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-... ROBERT INDIANA Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inc... RAFE SPALL I was always fascinated by this place. I always thought it was mysterious. PATRICK MOORE I've always been fascinated with radio and broadcasting. I did fake radio shows as a kid, where ... SCOTT AUKERMAN I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic. EMINEM I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time ... ALAN LIGHTMAN I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot. J. B. PRITZKER I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person, ALEX KAPRANOS I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought th... KATHRYN LASKY I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was... DAMON LINDELOF I always was fascinated by neat nicknames. STEVE SABOL I've always been really nationalistic, and I had a brother killed in Korea. And I think the '... JERRY WEST My history was the Western. I grew up with the Lone Ranger, the Cisco Kid and Bonanza. I felt as muc... CLIVE SINCLAIR My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. ... TAYLOR SWIFT I've always had a fighter's spark in me. I was born with it. I think it's in my blood. NICOLE SCHERZINGER I always felt that I was as good as the next person, and I didn't care what they had. LENNY WILKENS When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was ... BORIS BECKER I've always known that I was born to sing, ever since I was a child. ANDREA BOCELLI I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my pee... LARRY HARVEY I'm a loner as a person, but then I always was, even as a child. BILL BIXBY I've always been fascinated with twins. WINONA RYDER When I was growing up I spent a lot of time reading about ancient China and was really fascinated. JOHN FUSCO Singing was something I always did. I really don't remember a time when I wasn't singing, ev... ALESSIA CARA I was born with a love of animals, the same way I was born with brown hair. When I was a little girl... ISABELLA ROSSELLINI I, of course, was born as if I was a movie star in my head. Even though I had nothing, in my head I ... KARAN JOHAR I've never been happy with the quality of my work. I always felt as though my musicianship was l... LINDA RONSTADT I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horro... SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these OVID What I have always liked about Brighton is its impersonality. Since the 18th century, people have co... LYNNE TRUSS I love doing improv. I love comedy. I have always felt this way, even when I was really young. DAKOTA JOHNSON Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude. ETTA JAMES I haven't got purity, and I don't think I ever did. I have always been, even as a child, a v... MARIANNE FAITHFULL As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I w... BOBBY VINTON Maybe it's oldest-child syndrome, but I have always been competitive, even as a kid with sports.... ERIC CHURCH I always felt that I was born in the wrong era. I wanted to be friends with John Garfield, for insta... CHARLIE HADEN I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and... JENNY LEWIS Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the st... FRANCINE PASCAL Even when I was happy, I felt like I was always looking for the edges on life. The seams. I was so p... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probab... CARLA GUGINO I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in elec... KOICHI TANAKA I had never been in charge of anything. I'd always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture ... DAVE GROHL I'm really enamored with the idea of a reformed society, and I've always been fascinated wit... VICTORIA AVEYARD As a child I always had a sense of social conditions and political situations. I think it had to do ... TRACY CHAPMAN I've always been fascinated by horror films and genre films. And horror films harbored a fascina... EDGAR WRIGHT I have never had a man give me money. I've always been the provider. I have always been the one ... EDDI READER In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and par... POPPY Z. BRITE I have been playing games since I was about 6, and they've always been a big hobby of mine. RHIANNA PRATCHETT I guess I've always had a - not really thought of myself as this big star, big identity in the g... SONNY BILL WILLIAMS I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel they have not said e... MARK TWAIN I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative fam... ISABEL ALLENDE I was always the biggest nerd in school: I had very few friends; I was always picked on; I used to w... DANIELLE PANABAKER I plainly felt that, had God given me such a retirement with the companion I desired, I should have ... JOHN WESLEY I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies. DYLAN MCDERMOTT I've always been fascinated by quantum physics and the possibility of alternate realities. JAMES DASHNER I've never been a conceited person or cocky, never felt boastful, but I always had a sense of se... WILL FERRELL I wish we'd have won one or two more ballgames, especially in the last year, ... I never really had ... SAM WYCHE My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father's musical equipment and earned so... A. R. RAHMAN For bedtime reading, I usually curl up with a good monograph on quantum physics or string theory, my... MICHIO KAKU I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant peopl... M. J. ROSE I am a coolie and the son of a coolie. I was born with the poor, and I am still poor. My sympathies ... SUN YAT-SEN I was always incredibly obsessed with germs and cleaning and taking shower after shower after shower... HOWIE MANDEL I began when I was a child, because I was born and grew up in a little village. And many people ride... ANDREA BOCELLI I love English rock music the best and have always been fascinated by The Clash, especially Joe Stru... CARLA BRUNI I never felt that I should have taken a 'regular job;' I was always lucky enough to be in re... BRONAGH GALLAGHER I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be. MARY MACLANE And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and tre... LISA SNOWDON I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not s... MARK TWAIN He had always fascinated me. Monticello was usually a stop-off when we traveled down to North Caroli... BILL BARKER I have to say, I'm an Illinois resident, ... But when I was a child, as we crossed the state line, w... WILLIAM PETERSEN I've constantly tried new things, even as a child, and have always been obsessed with pink. Now ... NICKI MINAJ I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have bee... LEE KONITZ Scotland really is a spectacularly beautiful country with so much history. I always go to Culzean Ca... SUSAN EISENHOWER I am really quite fascinated by echo-locating bats and dolphins and have always wondered how sound a... EVELYN GLENNIE I have been a harmony enthusiast since I was a child, singing in choir and with friends growing up. ... ZOOEY DESCHANEL I was always fascinated by strength. Arnold was an idol of mine. BROCK LESNAR
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MARGARET MEAD Our humility rest upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinite... MARGARET MEAD When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate ... MARGARET MEAD People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky... MARGARET MEAD I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own. MARGARET FULLER Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi... MARGARET THATCHER Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soul immedi... MARGARET BROWNLEY What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wre... MARGARET MITCHELL The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words.... MARGARET OLIPHANT The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling? MARGARET GATTY I have a habit of comparing the phraseology of communiques...noting a certain similarity of words, a... MARGARET THATCHER The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a... MARGARET MEAD A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to t... MARGARET MEAD When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation. MARGARET SACKVILLE I don't mind how much my ministers talk -- as long as they do what I say. MARGARET THATCHER The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you nee... MARGARET YOUNG If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people ins... MARGARET HALSEY It takes two to destroy a marriage. MARGARET TRUDEAU If it is once again one against forty-eight, then I am very sorry for the forty-eight. MARGARET THATCHER Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and ... MARGARET OLIPHANT There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Ph... MARGARET FULLER Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the reclu... MARGARET FULLER Life is under no obligation to give us what we expect. MARGARET MITCHELL It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as e... MARGARET MEAD