Ghost Quotes - Page 32

• I read a lot of ghost stories because I was writing a ghost story. I didn't think at all I was writing a horror or a thriller or whatever because it is about a ghost, whereas a horror film can be about aliens or things that rise out of the marsh that have no human shape.

  Susan Hill

  Writing, Thinking, Ghost Stories

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There are certain types of genres that are impossible in China. Ghost stories, something too graphic, too violent, and of course if it's too political. Other than that, it will be fine.

  Wong Kar-wai

  Ghost Stories, Political, Impossible

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life.

  Nick Cave

  Moving, Shadow, Becoming

  Interview with Andrew Dominik, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 30, 2013.

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• I think the emotion that song carries makes it good. Because you have to produce around something - an emotional attachment and a feeling. The melody itself has a feeling in it. The keys, the tones, frequency, sonics, all of those have feelings in it. Like, it's the ghost within, the music itself. That's what makes the song even have a possibility of being great. The emotional connection. Because if you don't have that, I don't think you really have a song.

  The-Dream

  Song, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Somehow I know there was something so right about my doing Frankenstein and taking so long over it that I've probably been laying some ghost inside myself. It was a very necessary job for me to do, but it'll take some time to recover from it.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Jobs, Long, Over It

  Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 6, 2012.

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• I've been a musician since I was nine. I think a ghost or goblin visited me in the night. Maybe aliens abducted me, or a divine figure sent me a spiritual memo. Who knows.

  Alan Cohen

  Spiritual, Night, Thinking

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• There's only one proof of the Holy Ghost in your life and that's a holy life.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Holy, Proof, Holy Life

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• The really historical performance would talk to ghosts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Historical, Performances

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• I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, that sort of slow build, the suspense and the questioning about whether you're imagining something or if it's real.

  Gillian Flynn

  Real, Ghost Stories, Fans

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.

  Lorne Michaels

  Mother, Running, Uncles

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• I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror writer, though most of the time the supernatural never actually appears on stage.

  Dan Chaon

  Writing, Ghost Stories, Horror Stories

  Interview with Tom Barbash, www.believermag.com.

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• When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders urging me to speech. I hear Patrick Henry cry to the Burgsses, 'Is Life so dear, or Peace so sweet, to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?' I hear Sojourner Truth tell me that the hand that rocks the cradle can also rock the boat, and William Lloyd Garrison say, 'I am in earnest, I will not be silenced.'

  Sara Paretsky

  Sweet, Book, Past

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• He sought a way to preserve the past. John Hershel was one of the founders of a new form of time travel.... a means to capture light and memories. He actually coined a word for it... photography. When you think about it, photography is a form of time travel. This man is staring at us from across the centuries, a ghost preserved by light.

  Carl Sagan

  Photography, Memories, Mean

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• I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on those green hills. The worship of Mammon is also somewhat lessened there by the spirit of irony. I don't get hay fever in New England either.

  John Updike

  Real, Past, Hay Fever

  London Observer, March 25, 1979.

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• That's how we find our way outward and onward. By holding onto beauty hardest. By cradling it like the cure that it is. By making it realer than anything ever was. The rest is just monsters and ghosts.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Monsters, Way, Holding On

  "Dear Sugar, The Rumpus Advice Column #98: Monsters And Ghosts". therumpus.net. May 17, 2012.

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• The first essential for the coming of the Holy Ghost into a heart today is that the heart should be cleansed from sin, for the Holy Spirit does not fill an unclean heart. What God has cleansed, He then fills. Finally, whom God fills, He uses. A holy life is the authentic sign of being filled with the Spirit.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Heart, Essentials, Doe

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• My husband and I oddly have worked together a couple of times. We did a 'Veronica Mars' episode together. We didn't work together, but we were both in 'Ghost World.' We had a theater company in L.A., for a bunch of years. So, we've worked together a fair amount, and it's always just great fun.

  Lauren Bowles

  Fun, Husband, Couple

  "Lauren Bowles Interview TRUE BLOOD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 10, 2011.

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• Landale's language burns away the mists of the past, preparing a place of welcome for our ghosts.

  John Newlove

  Past, Welcome, Language

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• Everyone has a ghost story, or at least thats how it has always seemed to me.

  John Searles

  Ghost Stories, Stories

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• I never really had any God at all, just an imagined one, an inherited ghost.

  Erik Fosnes Hansen

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• I love ghosts, I prefer ghosts to some people.

  Cher

  People

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 28, 2013.

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• I know people who believe in ghosts but don’t believe in themselves. It’s kind of sad. Okay you don’t think you’ll ever make it as a musician, but last night you saw a translucent caveman.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Believe, Night, Thinking

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• Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Reading, Literature, Speak

  "Built to Last". www.nytimes.com. August 23, 2012.

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• A politician who has no compassion is nothing but an evil apparition; he is just a ghost, not a real man!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Men, Compassion

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• Do the things you want to do; if you don't, the things which keep you alive inside you die and you turn into a ghost!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Alive, Want, Turns

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