Jodie Foster

I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.

American Actress

Julie Plec

I've always been a super-fan of television storytelling. It took me a while to figure that out in a career capacity, but certainly in a life capacity, I've been an avid viewer of television for decades.

American Producer

Julia Roberts

Two of my three siblings are older, so I suppose I learned from them and became a very avid reader at a young age, which I think enough cannot be said for what you can discover through literature.

Lauren Ashley Carter

I'm a horror movie fan; I'm an avid fan and have been since I was five years old. My father and I watched horror movies, so this is a genre that is very close and very important to me.

Nat Wolff

I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.

American Actor

Jeff Duncan

As an avid hunter, outdoor enthusiast, and life member of the NRA, I understand the importance of protecting the right to keep and bear arms.

American Politician

Geoff Stults

I wasn't a regular, avid 'Bones' fan, but I'd certainly seen it. I liked the banter; I liked the people and that world.

Reid Scott

I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head.

Shannen Doherty

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

Zareen Khan

Very few people know that I am an avid and passionate traveller.

Indian Actress

The word 'avid' has a positive tone, suggesting someone is passionate and positive about their interest.

Positive Connotation

'Avid' implies a strong, sometimes almost overwhelming interest in a hobby or subject.

Intensity of Interest

'Avid' suggests a level of dedication beyond casual or occasional interest.

Not Casual

 is is relatively small and one of the problems with money is materialism what happens when people pursue money to avidly is they forget about the real basic pleasures of life so we have here this couple do you think the less fortunate or having better sex but I'm this kid over here saying leave me alone

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 you see life satisfaction going up with each rung of income. You see mental distress going up with lower income. So clearly there is some effect. But the effect is relatively small. And one of the problems with money is materialism. What happens when people pursue money too avidly,

Nancy Etcoff: Happiness...

 And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things. One of the great things was that my father was an avid golfer, but he was lefty.

Michael Moschen:...

 Today I'm going to unpack for you three examples of iconic design, and it makes perfect sense that I should be the one to do it because I have a Bachelor's degree in Literature. But I'm also a famous minor television personality and an avid collector of

John Hodgman: Design,...

 And she invested in the local school, community, friends and family. For Planet, she was also a one. She had a very low carbon footprint. She very rarely flew anywhere. She didn't own a car. She was avid at reduce, reuse, recycle. And in winter,

Dominic Price: What's...

 he was an avid reader, recruiting friends to read to him after he went blind in middle age. He said his image of paradise was an infinite library, an idea he brought to life in “The library of Babel.” Built out of countless identical rooms,

Infinity according to...

 her family to graduate from college by her advancement via individual determination and it meant that she was counting on me to be her teacher through all four years of high school because our avid teachers loop with students

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 they're avid swimmers and avid swingers and all this swimming and swinging sure works up yeah what else a gigantic appetite no in life there's

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