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There were times I wouldn't come to practice, because it didn't excite me. It wasn't interesting. I was kind of going through the motions. ↗

— Michael Phelps

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Technological things, that Germans and Japanese would get real excited about. ↗

— John Badham

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For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of. ↗

— Catherine II

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I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile. ↗

— Walter Chrysler

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The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement. ↗

— Lucian Freud

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I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows. ↗

— Herman Hesse

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I was working straight for nine months and I'm exhausted. I'm ready to relax for a little while and read. I don't want to work for work sake; I have to be excited about it. ↗

— Sanaa Lathan

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I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far. ↗

— Vince McMahon

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Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry. ↗

— Robert Morgan

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Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement. ↗

— Dawn Powell

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