Venice has always fascinated me. Every country in Europe then was run by kings and the Vatican except Venice, which was basically run by councils. I've always wondered why.
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CHARLIE PUTH The building I most admire is the Doges Palace in Venice, both by day and by night. Looking at it fr... ANOUSKA HEMPEL Track was always fun, it just wasn't a big passion for me. I was always fast and I could always run,... DORIEN BRYANT Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, ... DANIEL BERRIGAN I had always been fascinated by the whole idea that Australia was this different ecology and that wh... DAVID GERROLD My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a co... CARLOS SLIM I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a b... SALMAN RUSHDIE I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. B... ETHAN HAWKE I've always been fascinated with twins. WINONA RYDER I thought I knew who Alan Turing was. I've always loved history, and I was actually shocked by h... MORTEN TYLDUM I've always been fascinated by Elizabeth Taylor, and I had read that her first kiss happened on ... EMMA WATSON I am always fascinated by India. GARY ACKERMAN Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemo... JOHN FOWLES He got close to nature. Paul was fascinated by how insects move, and he used to run after butterflie... LINDA KENT I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture. TIM GUNN It was obviously a technical bounce after a very weak run, which was always the risk. JASON WONG We went to Paris and Pisa and Venice and Florence, all over Europe. The first few months were hard, ... MARTIN GELINAS The fortnight at Venice passed quickly and sweetly-- perhaps too sweetly; I was drowning in honey, s... EVELYN WAUGH I came up with a parallel Venice called Venus. set in a parallel Venice about 1701. TANITH LEE I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. I've always... SARAH SILVERMAN 'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred but fascinated me with puppets and dol... JAMES WAN If Venice sinks, the collection should be preserved somewhere in the vicinity of Venice. PEGGY GUGGENHEIM I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weir... JOHNNY DEPP The inner me was always under attack by authority, by the way my parents wanted me to be brought up,... EDWARD SAID I read all the Agatha Christies when I was younger and like Sherlock Holmes. Crime fiction has alway... EMILIA FOX 'Poltergeist' was the film that scarred me for life. I saw it at such a young age - 5 or 6 y... JAMES WAN I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venic... AMBER TAMBLYN My parents have always given me whatever I wanted. Took me to the ballet, the opera, museum exhibiti... BAR PALY I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect... JAMES CAMERON I had braces; I was lucky, 'cause I had some snaggle teeth. I always try and keep my retainer on... KREAYSHAWN I have always loved fashion and clothes. I mean, I was Grace Kelly for Halloween in fifth grade, whi... AHNA O'REILLY I learned French in Tunis, along with Arabic. I also learned French history. I knew the entire histo... AZZEDINE ALAIA It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon. NANCY GIBBS The painting was only outside France once, in 1955, when it was in a Giorgione exhibition in Venice. DAVID BROWN My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer. ANNA LEE Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted... GEORGE ORWELL I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music. KIP WINGER There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I... DAVID CHASE I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are. T. C. BOYLE Venice, Italy, is one of my favorite cities, a place I've been lucky enough to visit twice. ROSECRANS BALDWIN I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central Ameri... FRANCES MAYES In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth ta... WAYNE SWAN Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid. LAURA BELL BUNDY We are seeing a trend shift with travelers now favoring classic popular destinations such as Rome, V... MICHELE PERRY I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutt... NARCISO RODRIGUEZ George loved people. He didn't care what they did. He was always fascinated by their minds. GINGER DAVIS Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time. -The Merchant of Venice. ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He had always fascinated me. Monticello was usually a stop-off when we traveled down to North Caroli... BILL BARKER Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee,
And was the safeguard of the West. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The sylphs and ondines
And the sea-kings and queens
Long ago, long ago, on the waves built a c... LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest
So wonderfully built among the reeds
Of the lagoo... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Venice once was dear,
The pleasant place of all festivity,
The revel of the earth, the masque ... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) In Venice, Tass's echoes are no more,
And silent rows the songless gondolier;
Her palaces are ... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs;
A palace and a prison on each hand;
I saw from out ... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) I guess I've sort of always wanted to be an actress, except when I was five, which, I did want t... BETHANY JOY LENZ A realist, in Venice, would become a romantic by mere faithfulness to what he saw before him. ARTHUR SYMONS The Boston Marathon is internationally recognized and has a great tradition, and I know there will b... MEB KEFLEZIGHI I'm one of those apocalyptics. From the start of my immigrant days, I've been fascinated by ... JUNOT DIAZ This was a business that was run by people that always wanted to represent Monticello in the best ma... LAUREN BROWN I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that... GRANT GUSTIN For a moment, she was quiet. Then she grabbed my hand, whispered, “Run run run run run,” and too... JOHN GREEN I was always a writer, by which I mean I was always scribbling away, doing something with pen and pa... SIMON VAN BOOY People die from checkmate..., they run and run they are always the figure king, they run and run one... DEYTH BANGER
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