Awful Quotes - Page 38

• I think my first song ever was when my cat died. It was this awful, dreadful black cat who was angry and hated everything. Yet I was so upset when it died.

  Thomston

  Song, Cat, Thinking

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• I grew up with an absolutely horrible, debilitating stutter, and it was what caused me to retreat into myself and caused me to have very few friends and not want to socialize, and it made me absolutely terrified of giving reports in school. It was awful. It wasn't until I was 19 that I had intensive speech therapy. I had it for two years and it really helped, though I will say when I'm tired, the stutter comes out, even now.

  Tim Gunn

  School, Tired, Years

  "Tim Gunn on interviewing Dolly Parton and going to Woodstock in penny loafers". Interview with Marah Eakin,, www.avclub.com. September 14, 2016.

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• You've seen the first issue and what happened in the last page. Some pretty awful stuff. I don't know why I seem to be very good at drawing it!

  Declan Shalvey

  Drawing, Issues, Firsts

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I wanted to show what it's really like for 98 percent of the world's population [in the third world]. Plus, I also see there are an awful lot of young people out there doing good things, and I wanted to give them a platform.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  People, Giving, Population

  Source: bookpage.com

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• If you can play an asshole you never get to do it in life, so what rich joy there is to go and do that and say awful things to people.

  David Koechner

  Play, People, Joy

  "BYT Interviews: David Koechner". Interview with BYT, brightestyoungthings.com. September 22, 2016.

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• I seem to like playing with form, and the superhero genre has an awful lot of formula to it. It has a lot of formula to it that I don't think it should be limited to.

  Kurt Busiek

  Thinking, Superhero, Should

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When it was offered [a role in The Flash] I just thought it sounded like the perfect thing that I would want to do. Then they announced it online the day after and I was terrified, because I hadn't read anything, I hadn't shot anything. What if I'm awful? What if they fire me on the first day? But what I discovered was a bunch of really happy actors who want to make the best show possible, because it's fun. Not for any other reason.

  Tom Felton

  Fun, Fire, Perfect

  "The Flash: 9 questions with Tom Felton". Interview with Ed Gross, www.empireonline.com. October 3, 2016.

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• The fact is that you can be a Nazi living in a little trailer in the middle of Montana and as awful as everything you stand for is, you're basically an angry guy in a shack. Scientology, on the other hand, is a multi-billion dollar institution with tentacles that reach into lots of countries. I don't think it's as powerful as many people think it is, but compared to the sorts of people I've dealt with, it is a force to be reckoned with. It has global influence and very very deep pockets.

  Louis Theroux

  Country, Powerful, Thinking

  "Louis Theroux discusses My Scientology Movie, his first feature film". Interview with John Nugent, www.empireonline.com. October 3, 2016.

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• It's awful to be afraid of sex, but I'm afraid that's what the '50s did to people. It was just sex is disgusting, it shouldn't be talked about. Nudity is disgusting, we just don't talk about those kinds of things.

  Elton John

  Sex, People, Kind

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.

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• On another front of the category-error argument are the insufferable fogeys who think the [Nobel] award is an outrage upon literature itself. That the problem is not simply a mistake may have been made about definitions, but that awful vulgarians are encroaching upon their sacred places. [Bob] Dylan, to them, is the harbinger of the low-culture mob; the latest in an unending number of final straws, or the thin end of a wedge that never seems to get thicker.

  David Bennun

  Mistake, Thinking, Numbers

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

  Charlie Brooker

  Reading, Attention, Fiction

  "The Man Behind Netflix’s “Black Mirror” Is Maybe a Little Too Good at Predicting the Future". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2016.

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• I pitched Jay Hunt the opening scene (prime minister, middle of the night, he's woken up...). She paused, and then she laughed. She was very intrigued and all that, and then she said, "Does it have to be a pig?" So we went through various options: Could it be a supermarket frozen chicken? A giant wheel of cheese? A pig seemed just the right level of absurd, but then when he walks in and there's actually a pig there, it's awful.

  Charlie Brooker

  Night, Pigs, Cheese

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• [Bill Clinton] has settled numerous lawsuits without admitting any guilt on a whole number of things. Are you saying, are you implying that settling a lawsuit is implying guilt? Because if so, it means that your candidate is guilty of an awful lot of things, no.

  Anderson Cooper

  Mean, Numbers, Guilt

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• We're not good at noticing slow, steady changes in our environments, our senses are not very acute compared to those of many animals, and we're pretty awful at abstract thought, much less acting on it.

  Dale Jamieson

  Animal, Acting, Environment

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There might never be that moment when everyone says, "Oh my God, big data is awful."

  Cathy O'Neil

  Data, Might, Moments

  Source: www.salon.com

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• It takes our government an awful lot of time to do most things competently, and that's part of the problem here.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Government, Problem

  "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. October 23, 2016.

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• Native advertising covers an awful lot of stuff. In many ways, it's just an extension of what in print had been called for years an advertorial.

  Norman Pearlstine

  Years, Way, Stuff

  Source: wwd.com

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• In America we're in this awful situation, and you know, I hardly get any royalties anymore because music is just stolen from the internet.

  Terry Bozzio

  America, Internet, Royalty

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• I was the offbeat character that had to kiss the offbeat boys and, ugh, some of the boys they brought in. There was one boyfriend in particular, we had to climb a mountain, and he was just weird and awful, and I hated it. So the producers left a big bag of Hershey Kisses after that taping saying, "Here are some kisses you will actually enjoy. Thanks for doing this." Isn't that so nice?

  Andrea Barber

  Nice, Character, Kissing

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to sputter out after a hundred pages or so - an awful admission for someone who is trying to write one, but it's true.

  Matthew Healy

  Reading, Writing, Trying

  Source: blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu

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• When you learn an instrument, it takes an awful lot of time to just learn the scales, and then eventually when you have completely mastered the instrument, the music plays for you. But you still have to keep practicing. And it takes an awful lot of practice. Nonetheless, if you diligently practice, hours and hours and hours and hours, you probably won't get it. You'll probably just end up hurting your fingers.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Hurt, Practice, Play

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• It seems to me it would be pretty awful if Canadians came to choose political leaders not for their political ideas and actions, but because of their adherence or their devotedness to one faith or another.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Ideas, Leader, Political

  Source: presbyterianrecord.ca

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• The point is that if a book that had been published three years ago started to sell twice as many all of a sudden it probably wouldn't even get no­ticed. People wouldn't be tracking it. The system has cleaned up its act an awful lot but the best-seller list system is not an entirely foolproof thing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Years, People

  Source: bobneilson.org

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• I don't think a baker reads an awful lot about bread.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Bakers, Bread

  Source: bobneilson.org

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• I don't read an awful lot of fiction and when I do, it tends to be lightweight stuff.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fiction, Stuff

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