For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.
I guess I'm attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And it's why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.
It is a blessing to have pretty people around me. I like people who are sparky, positive. Evil, dark people are repelled by me: 'Oooh no! Too much sunlight.'
Punk rock, to me, was always outsiderness. When I first saw large-group-scene punk rock, I was repelled by it, because there were way too many people who agreed with each other.
I've been simultaneously drawn to and repelled from Hollywood for years.
The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.
Culturally, there is often the expectation that women should be repelled by anything too ugly, too violent.
The men who really get repelled by what you're wearing are a little shallow, and you probably don't want to date them anyway.
We have all said things that are offensive when taken out of context. You don't need to tell the public to be repelled. They will tell you they are repelled.
