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Notebooks allow for all kinds of record-keeping, and I kept one myself as a kid. I was attracted to mixing up words and pictures freely, since that's how I think.

It's very likely they didn't have direct or public connections to hate groups. It's very likely this was a troubled young man who was attracted to images of power.

It's very important for a film like 'Capote.' It gives real posterity to a film. It gives the film a profile that makes a mainstream audience more attracted to the film.

They attracted our attention because they were too boring.

They were using alcohol. They were attracted to each other. They got together behind this Dumpster at Seville Quarter. They were messing around, and it ended up with a push and a hit and turned into a tragic situation.

They held it in conjunction with the Orange Festival, and the farmers would put on displays. All the locals would come, and they even attracted folks from Dania, Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale. It was one of the things that put Davie in the public eye. As more people heard about the rodeo, they'd come to Davie. It was a big thing at the time, and they had some pretty serious square dancing contests,

It was her inner beauty that first attracted me. She is just a warm, caring person who has so much to give.

Not only am I physically and emotionally attracted to women, I also wonder what being a woman would be like.

It's really clear the drug benefit has attracted many, many businesses from throughout the country. What's less clear and really important is what they're offering and how seniors will respond to the opportunity to enroll.

Sleep has attracted a tremendous amount of attention in science, but we really don't know what sleep is.

Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.

The lake is so beautiful. It is really one of the things that attracted me to Oroville right away.

The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone. Many of the students attracted to these courses are not technology majors, and many of the topics we discuss relate to ethical challenges that transcend the computer world.

I'm disappointed that this event is canceled. It has attracted various visitors over the years. It's always been (a) great event.

I let go of the notion of wanting someone to ignore the way I look in order to find me attractive, because really, what kind of relationship would that be? One where someone's only attracted to you because they're ignoring a fundamental part of you? No thanks.

I have seen what I expected to see. I've seen people out doing a lot of window shopping, people doing some buying, lots of folks lined up before the crack of dawn to get the hot toys. I saw consumers out there feeling good, attracted by the big sales, but nothing to justify the gloomy sales forecasts people have made.

I made my personal discovery of Emily Carr while visiting Victoria in 1981 to write a travel article. Immediately, her strong colors attracted me; her spunk fascinated me. Her down-to-earth voice in her writing appealed to me as authentic and original.

In just over a year Napster has attracted a community of more than 20 million music fans who are sampling music, discovering new artists, buying CDs and sharing their passion for their favorite artists in our chat rooms.

I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.

I knew that Jesus loved me, not because the Bible told me so but because my heart was informed by love. And later, for that same reason, I knew I was attracted to boys.

I'm more attracted to a stronger man rather than a feminine man. Someone who would just throw me down and take control. I love feeling helpless. I definitely like a man who is aggressive and confident.

I hadn't seen George Mason a lot, didn't know much about them like everybody else. I didn't even know where it was. It attracted me as soon as I saw them play.

I'm constantly looking for developments anywhere in San Antonio. I believe in this city, ... The genuine sincerity of this town is what's attracted us to do business here.

I'm attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.

I'm attracted to polarizing characters who upend the civility of life.

I'm attracted to flawed characters, ... They're fun and interesting to play and the rest comes from that.

I'm attracted to ensembles: you get a lot of really good moving pieces. It's sort of like a horse race in a way, especially when you know that everyone is on this collision course. It's like, 'Who's going to make it?' And you can put people together in unexpected pairings.

If you increase the price of entry-level employment, you will have less of it. More troubling is (that) as wages go up, a disproportionate segment of the population loses jobs. Teens from wealthy families are attracted to the labor force, displacing those with lower skills and lower (levels of) education.

In the first century A.D., members of the growing Church in Corinth were enthusiastic about the gospel. Almost all were recent converts to the Church. Many were attracted to it through the preaching of the Apostle Paul and others.

I remember just being attracted to the music. When I had the opportunity to pick up a guitar, it was like it was inside of me. It was a challenge to learn how to play it. I didn't want to stop.

I just liked the sound that came out of a flute. I just loved it. It just initially attracted me and then I got hooked. It is a little different for a kid that age to become hooked on the flute. It's a difficult instrument to learn, but I didn't find it as difficult as I thought it would be.

I have seen similar incidents this year that haven't attracted such a substantial grading.

I really like saturated colors. I try and exaggerate what it is that attracted me to the image in the first place.

Investors have been attracted to growth opportunities. The most attractive growth rates are in the small and mid-cap space, with the growth styles leading returns for the month. We believe mid- and small-caps will continue to lead returns over the short term, as recent earnings disappointments have been focused in the large-cap arena.

In the past, we've attracted people (to Boise) from five surrounding counties, because more work entices people into a longer commute.

If you think about 'Person of Interest' with Taraji P. Henson or 'Scandal' with Kerry Washington - any of those black women could have been any race; they just happen to be black. And those are the characters that I'm more attracted to. It's not so much about separation of race, but really, more uniting us.

In New York, you have the street; in the U.K., we have the beach. I end up being like a migrating bird, being attracted to it.

Inevitably if you are successful Formula 1 staff are attracted by other teams offering them good deals. At the moment I am not aware of any senior members of the engineering staff that are leaving.

I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.

I tend to like very bitchy women. I find myself most attracted to smart, sarcastic, bitchy women.

I realize I love crazy ladies. Of course I don't like to think of myself as one, but maybe I am, too. I dunno. I'm always drawn to them; I think it's because I'm attracted to people who aren't in the business of people-pleasing: saying what they really think, not passive-aggressive at all.

I realized that I was very attracted to her, and there was no point for my delaying it.

I realized that I was asexual because when I was young, all of my friends started being attracted to people, and I had no idea what they were talking about.

Clearly, Denis and Peter want to make sure that the situations and day-to-day lives and challenges of the firemen (on the show) aren't sugarcoated and aren't whitewashed, and that's what attracted them to FX,

Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.

His credentials on the field speak for themselves. As much as anything, what attracted us to Kevin were the intangibles -- his character, his makeup and person on and off the field. We did our homework and we heard the same thing -- terms like 'bulldog,' 'tenacious,' 'competitor,' and 'great around young pitchers.' These are all things we are ecstatic about as we go forward.

Before acting, I was always attracted to words, to literature - be they the words of Williams, Arthur Miller, Shakespeare or Moliere.

hopelessly attracted to pretty girls with mental problems.

How can you not be attracted to this sport? It's a hair-trigger sport where one sneeze at 230 mph gets you in trouble.

I don't know if the market can match the $200-plus billion in sales that occurred in 2006, but there is still a lot of capital that is attracted to real estate.

Certain people get attracted to this type of work; they pass our stringent background investigations, they get through our academies, they take an oath of office to defend the constitution of the state of California as well as the United States -- and what do they do? They go off in a total different direction. And I think the public is fed up with this, and I know I am fed up with it.

By nature of its unlimited potential, Second Life has already attracted a large community of creative individuals from a wide range of disciplines. By creating the Linden Lab Fellowship, we hope that we will encourage students of the expressive arts to explore the potential of the virtual world, for the benefit of both the Second Life culture and the broader world of art.

he said by telephone from Florida, since the play is ''dealing with death and dissolution. But it was the completeness of the role that attracted me.

Gametocyte-infected children attracted about twice as many mosquitoes as either uninfected ones or ones infected with non-transmissible stages. The results really jump out.

George attracted attention because some of the things he demanded were so outrageous.

I call my life a beautiful mess and organised chaos. It's just always been like that. My entire life things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself.

He (Brown) is a man with grandiose schemes, no doubt attracted by the glamour of sporting clubs, but he has been prepared to use dishonesty to keep these afloat by ignoring the rules of business.

Heavy has always been about our point of view. That's why we have attracted an audience.

For the most part this really attracted income-oriented investors. Shamrock's business is relatively stable but there are some risks involved. The company depends on Ultramar and increased delivery of oil.

You couldn't find a project that attracted more agencies.

The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.

This history needs to be told, and the best way to do that is to have a visitor's center that people can be attracted to, where they come and you give them the story and the history -- let them know there is more to Utah than snow on the hills. Utah's history is just as important as Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

The great thing about oak is that it looks old. It is beautifully solid and well made. There is something about the style you can't help being attracted to.

The ghost of Morse in the script was one of the things that attracted me to it.

The common thread here is that we're concerned that people who are being attracted to this endeavor understand the risks as well as the potential rewards.

The city and the county were investing money, and that attracted him. We've gone a lot farther than his vision when he first landed.

The market overreacted to the storm and that attracted buyers at key technical levels,

The level of interest for this meeting is quite high. Romney obviously has attracted a lot of attention in a positive way.

The latest raids reflect the commitment of the UAE authorities to safeguard the integrity of the IPR laws. The UAE's determined campaign against piracy has helped improve its standing in the international digital society. As a result, the country has attracted considerable investor attention, with many leading software companies setting up their development facilities and regional headquarters in the UAE. The UAE's strong anti-piracy stance has also helped support the growth of the local IT industry. These factors have combined to help diversify the country's economic activities, raise employment opportunities and accelerate economic growth.

The kind of girl I was attracted to in school and eventually married.

The lower numbers we have seen have attracted buying interest from a combination of end-users and speculators particularly from China.

The league had personality. People are attracted to unique personalities. We certainly had plenty of that.