Intimidating Quotes - Page 9

• Suppose you had a cross burning in a play or a movie... Would that be intimidating?

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Play, Burning, Crosses

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• Today's unions are less Mobbed-up than those of yesteryear to be sure, but they're hardly above tactics that would be considered intimidating and coercive.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Yesteryear, Would Be, Tactics

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• Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Strong, Believe, Self

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• I scare people a little bit, so why not? That's what we do as drag queens. We're supposed to be a little intimidating!

  Sutan Amrull

  People, Scare, Drag Queen

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was starstruck by Madonna. She's one of the few remaining superstars. I'm so impressed by her level of discipline towards her career. We did have a little chat, and she wasn't remotely intimidating, just lovely and open.

  Donna Air

  Careers, Discipline, Lovely

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I found a lot of stuff that's never been seen before. That was the goal: to not use cliché Cold War footage but give people a sense of the place and setting. It's a field you still need. At first it was a lot of fun, and then later it became a little bit intimidating. "Oh my God, I've got so much footage. Where am I going to put it? What am I going to do?" I ended up really only reviewing about 20 to 30 percent of what I had. So it was a task.

  Gabe Polsky

  Fun, War, People

  Source: collider.com

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• With the audience I write for, I want to make sure that the reader is eagerly turning every page. I want each of my books to be an absorbing reading experience, an authentic piece of literature. The worst thing that can happen is for a book to have a chilling effect on the reader, to have a kid pick it up and look at a bunch of footnotes and think, No, I'm not going to read this, it's too intimidating.

  Russell Freedman

  Book, Reading, Kids

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I don't feel one could even remotely touch the idea of intimidating others, but because I've understood the other side of the experience, I will occasionally, if I smell that could even be in the air for a few minutes, say to the director, "Please, you must tell me anything you want. Please say all the things you think might be terribly hurtful like, 'That was boring.'"

  Kenneth Branagh

  Thinking, Air, Ideas

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 4, 2010.

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• First of all, being a woman is an incredible asset in many ways in making documentaries. You can be less intimidating, you have a heightened emotional sensitivity and you have the ability to listen to multiple conversations at one time and multi-task.

  Ondi Timoner

  Emotional, Tasks, Way

  "SXSW Women Directors: Meet Ondi Timoner – ‘BRAND: A Second Coming’ and ‘The Last Mile’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. March 12, 2015.

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• The most intimidating world leader was Lyndon Johnson, who became U.S. President when John Kennedy was assassinated. He exulted in this power and liked to inspire fear.

  Paul Johnson

  Leader, Inspire, President

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• I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work in. It's too intimidating and derivative to be just totally gobsmacked by someone doing exactly the same thing as you are.

  Whit Stillman

  Thinking, Discipline, People

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• We're trying to learn from [Olympic] Beijing, which could be very intimidating. We've learned to expect it's power, it majesty and that it completes a cycle of certain types of shows... I don't think any nation could do anything on that scale. We haven't got that money, and I don't think anybody would have the appetite for that kind of expenditure and that kind of control, so we're going to try and do something a bit more intimate and try and start again... start a new cycle for these kind of ceremonies.

  Danny Boyle

  Thinking, Trying, Majesty

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• When you work in film, you have to be pretty fluent in explaining your vision, especially when speaking to actors, and I found speaking to actors to be so challenging and intimidating on set.

  Tania James

  Challenges, Vision, Film

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It never occurs to me that I'd be intimidating to anybody. Maybe I should consider that.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Should

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know a lot about that and honor it in the work.

  Piper Perabo

  Character, Play, Community

  "Piper Perabo’s Culinary Affairs". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 16, 2012.

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• I like reading for things. I've shown up for jobs before where I haven't read for them, and there's something kind of intimidating about that - where the first words they'll hear from me are when they call "action." There's something about actually going in and earning a part and going, like, "Okay, they really liked what I did, and so I'm on the right track."

  Luke Grimes

  Jobs, Reading, Track

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have a friend who says the best boyfriends are ones with intimidating, good-looking older brothers. The boyfriends try harder because they're so insecure. Maybe I'm the female equivalent.

  Beth Orton

  Brother, Insecure, Trying

  Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.

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• I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one.

  Kurt Busiek

  Writing, Ideas, Pages

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Hillary Clinton doesn't command the screen. She doesn't look intimidating, inviting, engaging.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Looks, Clinton, Command

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• For the longest time, I never thought I was intimidating to guys, but I'm kind of finding out that maybe there is some tiny thread of intimidation.

  Beverley Mitchell

  Guy, Tiny, Kind

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• Isla [Fisher] is so pretty we were trying to decide who the hell should play against her that would intimidate her, and one day I said, "You know...this was before Superman had come out, Superman v. Batman: The Court Room Drama I like to call it.

  Greg Mottola

  Drama, Play, One Day

  Source: collider.com

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• It's a little intimidating to walk into a studio and know that you're going to sing a duet with Barbra Streisand.

  Billy Joel

  Duets, Littles, Walks

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• This was my first novel [The Dissemblers ]. I've never seriously written short stories, and actually find short stories much more intimidating as an art form than novels.

  Liza Campbell

  Art, Stories, Firsts

  Source: newwest.net

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• I would consider the principal threats to start with Russia, and it would certainly include any nations that are looking to intimidate nations around their periphery, regional nations nearby them, whether it be with weapons of mass destruction or, I would call it, unusual, unorthodox means of intimidating them, that sort of thing.

  James Mattis

  Mean, Russia, Mass Destruction

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I was like, I can't believe I get to be in a scene with Meryl Streep [in Florence Foster Jenkins]! And then I was like, but why do I have to play Chopin? It's already going to be intimidating.

  Simon Helberg

  Believe, Play, Florence

  "Simon Helberg sharingbig screen with Meryl Streep". Interview with Nina Metz, digitaledition.chicagotribune.com.

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