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• Very depressed today. Unable to write a thing. Menacing gods. I feel outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Stars, Writing

  Sylvia Plath (2000). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962”, Anchor

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• I've been married to my wife for 60 years but it feels just like yesterday, and you know what a bloody awful day yesterday was.

  Frank Carson

  Feels Just, Yesterday, Years

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• Insurrection: Insurrection as soon as circumstances allow: insurrection, strenuous, ubiquitous: the insurrection of the masses: the holy war of the oppressed: the republic to make republicans: the people in action to initiate progress. Let the insurrection announce with its awful voice the decrees of God: let it clear and level the ground on which its own immortal structure shall be raised. Let it, like the Nile, flood all the country that it is destined to make fertile.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Country, War, Voice

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.148, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In our culture, imitation-based experience dominates reality-based experience.  I find this an awful thing. But there are artists who know from the bottom of their souls that art is about the experience of reality. The reason we have art is because you can’t get a real experience from the world.

  Richard Tuttle

  Art, Real, Soul

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• You say something bad about Newsies and you have an awful lot of people to answer to.

  Christian Bale

  People, Answers

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm an awful driver. I'm not going to lie about it. I'm not a good driver. I tried for a long time to pretend that I was. There's a lot of road rage and a lot of times it's directed at something I've done on the road

  Kristen Bell

  Lying, Long, Done

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• For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!

  Dominic West

  Kissing, Men, Seems

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I remember hitting Sarah Michelle Gellar with a right hook during my first week on the job. It was awful. They usually pair actors with stunt doubles to avoid things like that.

  Eliza Dushku

  Jobs, Hook, Actors

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• I'm actually embarrassed to tell people I'm Russian these days, because it's become such an awful place.

  Anton Yelchin

  People, These Days, Embarrassed

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• To a right-winger, unions are awful. Why do right-wingers hate unions? Because collective bargaining is the power that a worker has against the corporation. Right-wingers hate that.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Hate, Unions, Corporations

  "Majority Report", June 3, 2005.

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• I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.

  Taye Diggs

  House, Handy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.

  Stacey Dash

  Character, Sleep, Trying

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Hollywood, Earning, Lots Of Money

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• I'm contemplating moving to London for a period of time. I've been in Los Angeles for 15 years and I'm really tired of it. I'm continually uninspired by what's being sent to me. Even by huge films that they're doing there. They're just awful.

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Moving, Tired, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I keep my family out of my public life because it can be an awful nuisance to them. What's my mother going to tell strangers anyway? That I was a cute baby and that she's terribly proud of me? Nuts. Who cares?

  Montgomery Clift

  Cute, Mother, Baby

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• People have an awful lot of problems that society has put on them and a lot to work through because of it.

  Dana Plato

  People, Problem

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Oh My God, the [hip-hop] videos! The imagery is so awful! I just can't get with it at all. The best thing I can say about it is that sometimes you have to see that kind of stuff so as to have a more balanced view about why it's so bad.

  Alicia Keys

  Views, Hip Hop, Stuff

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I’m a suburbanite nowIn L.A. you have to be so careful about what you say and who you trust. It’s such an awful way to live. [In Chicago] people want to get to know you for you. I feel like I can just breathe.

  Kristin Cavallari

  People, Chicago, Way To Live

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• Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?

  Jessica Walter

  Trying, Littles, Hello

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• Eventually this all passes. The public horrors of today eventually blow away. And, yes, you are changed by the awful wake of reckoning they leave behind. Hopefully in the process you don't lose your ability to throw your arms in the air again and spin in wild abandon. That is the ultimate F.U. and - finally - the most beautiful survival tool of all. Don't let them take that away from you.

  Jodie Foster

  Beautiful, Blow, Air

  "Kristen Stewart defended by Jodie Foster" by Amy Wilkinson, www.mtv.com. August 15, 2012.

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• I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.

  Paul Newman

  Knowing, Giving, Work Out

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I really romanticized being pregnant. Then I realized, this is awful!

  Marcia Cross

  Being Pregnant, I Realized, Pregnant

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• There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Dna, Eggs, Two

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• Everything I sang sounded awful. So I went outside and I screamed. Everyone pretty much agreed it was awful.

  Reese Witherspoon

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• I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.

  Jared Harris

  School, Waiting, Lasts

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