Frightening Quotes - Page 10

• Trying to maintain a pleasant state and avoid an unpleasant state is actually the cause of sorrow. When you stop resisting, you see that what seems frightening is actually the absolute beauty of reality. When you see that everything is a momentary display of reality, then you stop resisting it. Resistance hurts, only every single time. Love is the state of nonresistance.

  Adyashanti

  Hurt, Reality, Love Is

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• The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

  Gillian Flynn

  Humanity, Flaws, Capacity

  "Fictional Character: Libby Day". "Dark Places", www.imdb.com. 2015.

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• To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.

  John Carpenter

  Men, Scary, Monsters

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• Communism destroyed so many generations. I look at my grandparents and their generation, and it's as if their lives were taken from them. It's really sad and frightening that something like that could have happened. But I don't really think of myself as Russian anymore. I didn't even live there for that long.

  Anton Yelchin

  Taken, Thinking, Long

  Interview with Diane Lane, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 8, 2009.

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• If you fill your time as a director talking about lights and technique with the crew then it's frightening for the actors to be left alone. Somebody has to keep them safe from the mess that is the machinery.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Talking, Light, Safe

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Mania can be as terrifying as it gets. It is certainly as insane as one gets and so it's frightening when it gets out of control, but there are periods of mania when it can be extremely attractive.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Insane, Attractive, Periods

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Patricia Smith is one of the best poets around and has been for a long time. Her Blood Dazzler is full of capacious soul and formal inventiveness: the compassion and artfulness necessary to capture the tragedies and Tragedy of Katrina. Smith is herself a storm of beautiful, frightening talent. Her words will wash you or wash you away. I consider this new book a major literary event.

  Terrance Hayes

  Beautiful, Book, Compassion

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• I wanted to apprentice myself to the dailiness of the war's beginning phase. It's truer and more frightening that way - when you're afloat on a little dingy in the midst of it all.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, Phases, Littles

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• It's frightening enough with a male actor and not a stunt person. If you accidently punch him with the wrong hand, then you've cost them a week's work and they've got a black eye or a lot of money goes on CG to get rid of it. That was nerve wracking, but it was very civilized. Women tend to immediately take responsibility if somebody messes up with both of us saying it's our fault. Men are quite happy for it to be your fault it seems like.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Eye, Responsibility, Men

  Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• I'm filled with despair. We live in a pathological culture filled with rage and bitterness and greed. The hate-mongering and racism is reaching a frightening pitch.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Hate, Racism, Greed

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org. September 22, 2010.

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• Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.

  Kobo Abe

  Connections, Human Experience, Humans

  Kobo Abe (1970). “Inter Ice Age 4”

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• I was eighteen, this was back in '46, so we also had these very frightening images of soldiers in the streets of Paris. So the effect of war, plus my shyness, plus my lack of education - I was afraid of men, really. It changes later, but it took me a certain time to adjust.

  Agnes Varda

  War, Men, Streets Of Paris

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• We would do improvisation together. And that in a way, had almost a "student-film side" where we'd be sitting there with Robert Downey and Jon Favreau and we're playing around, we're jamming around and we read those pages and in next couple of days that's what we do, so it was a good experience. Kind of frightening at first because you didn't quite know how it was going to work out, but they had some very talented people there so it worked out well.

  Jeff Bridges

  Couple, People, Work Out

  "Jeff Bridges Is Making a Porno in The Amateurs". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. December 6, 2007.

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• Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

  Hugh Grant

  Women, Battle, Ifs

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

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• Your relationship is not supposed to be perfect all the time, your business is not supposed to do well all the time, your soufflés are not supposed to raise perfectly all the time. Everything is designed to go wrong so that you can gain the skills of rediscovering your tracks, even in difficult or frightening circumstances. Especially in difficult and frightening circumstances.

  Martha Beck

  Skills, Track, Perfect

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• We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.

  Matthew Fox

  Pain, Laughter, Silly

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• If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

  Sting

  Writing, Scary, Over It

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• Not for the first time Richard reflected that this age's vaunted 'communications industry' had chiefly provided people and nations with the means of frightening to death and simultaneously boring to extinction themselves and each other.

  Fritz Leiber

  Communication, Mean, People

  Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.160, Open Road Media

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• We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.

  Chris Lowe

  Letting Go, Writing, Scary

  "The Pet Shop Boys' Commandments". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2003.

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• It's just occurred to me that some horror films everybody laughs because they're so ridiculous and they're so frightening in a way, the filmmakers' are trying everything, that they just end up being funny.

  Susan Hill

  Trying Everything, Laughing, Way

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When school friends would think about appearing on stage as the most frightening, the most awful, intimidating experience ever, I knew that it was something I could do.

  Hugh Laurie

  School, Thinking, Awful

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I hate being frightened of things. I'm not someone who can say: "Oh, I'm scared of flying, I won't fly." Fear seems to creep over every part of your life so if there's something I identify as frightening to me I want to tackle it.

  Hugh Jackman

  Hate, Flying, Want

  "X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Hugh Jackman interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I have almost no memory of them [St. Trinian's films]. I don't think I've seen them since I was quite young. I was a bit frightened of the girls. I fancied them. Even though I was young, I found them attractive and rather frightening. I've always been attracted to frightening girls! I'm married to one!

  Colin Firth

  Girl, Memories, Thinking

  "St Trinian's - Colin Firth interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• To be anywhere near an enormous ocean liner when you are just like a fish in the water is frightening.

  John Hawkes

  Ocean, Water, Scary

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• " Science is beginning to encroach on every level of our volition". And to me, that is a frightening social concept. It doesn't have anything to do with the right to have an abortion verses the right to life. It has to do with the ability of science to keep things alive and the ability of science to really control our lives.

  Stephen King

  Abortion, Alive, Levels

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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