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• No one can count the terrors that the earth spawns, catastrophic, gruesome, and the vast arms of the sea swarm with brute monsters bent on harm, and everywhere between the sky and ground lights bloom by day in flares and sudden bolts; and birds and beasts alike can tell of the whirlwind's whirling wrath.

  Aeschylus

  Wrath, Light, Sea

  Aeschylus, Alan Shapiro, Peter Burian (2003). “The Oresteia”, p.128, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Reflecting on these complex relationships between reader and story, fiction and life, can constitute a form of therapy against the sleep of reason, which generates monsters.

  Umberto Eco

  Sleep, Fiction, Stories

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Six Walks in the Fictional Woods”, p.139, Harvard University Press

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• The real issue, as far as Democrats are concerned, is the number of people receiving something from the government. This is exactly what Franklin Delano Roosevelt had in mind when he created this monster. And Clinton is planning to expand it beyond Roosevelt's wildest dreams.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dream, Real, Numbers

  Rush H. Limbaugh (1994). “See, I Told You So”, Pocket Books

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• We are, if territory and population be looked at together, one of the great countries of the world - a monster country, one might say, along with others such as China, India, the recent Soviet Union, and Brazil. And there is a real question as to whether "bigness" in a body politic is not an evil in itself, quite aside from the policies pursued in its name.

  George F. Kennan

  Country, Real, Countries Of The World

  "Around the Cragged Hill: A Personal and Political Philosophy". Book by George F. Kennan, p. 143, 1993.

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• We're travelling through space and time, we're dealing with gods and monsters, but at the heart of the film, from my perspective, is a family - a father, two sons, two brothers, a mother and the fractious, intimate interaction that they have.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Mother, Brother, Father

  "Thor: The Dark World - Tom Hiddleston interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• We thought it was only in science fiction that things created by humans could actually take over what is inherently our human heritage. But Thom Hartmann shows how we've already let that happen on a frightening scale - not in Frankenstein's monsters or Kubrick's creeping computer Hal - but in the corporations that present their friendly 'faces' to us as if we have nothing to fear from this ultimate usurpation of our rights as real humans.

  Ed Ayres

  Real, Rights, Friendly

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• There are actual monsters in the world, but when my kids ask I pretend like there aren’t.

  Simon Rich

  Kids, World, Asks

  Simon Rich (2016). “The World of Simon Rich”, p.13, Serpent's Tail

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• I was really freaked out when I heard that Cookie Monster was going to be changed to Veggie Monster, but that turned out to be a lie.

  Elizabeth Meriwether

  Lying, Cookies, Changed

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• I've always had a desire to be provocative and to make people think, but it wouldn't be any challenge for me just to be shocking. That is where it begins for me, not where it stops. And I could be much more shocking. I think I've adopted a sense of subtlety. I don't sit around wondering how I can make myself even stranger to the world. I've simply evolved into the monster I created, and I'm quite happy with it.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, People, Challenges

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• I would like, with the sun shining through the window on a crisp early-autumnal mid-morning, with a sufficiency of Monster Cappucino flowing in my veins to prompt minimal sentience, to declare my view for the record that Drummer Jokes are a cruel and pernicious form of humour introduced to the world by under-humoured persons lacking in sensitivity and concern for other drummers.

  Robert Fripp

  Morning, Views, Concern For Others

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• In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the TOMB OF HORRORS. This labyrinthine crypt is filled with terrible traps, strange and ferocious monsters, rich and magical treasures, and somewhere within rests the evil DemiLich.

  Ernest Cline

  Lonely, Lying, Evil

  Ernest Cline (2011). “Ready Player One”, p.74, Random House

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• To hell with monsters and to hell with men. There is no difference to me.

  Rick Yancey

  Men, Differences, Hell

  Rick Yancey (2014). “The Final Descent”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• When you first think of making a monster movie you have to realize that a lot of people may be down on you because there is a big prejudice against such films.

  Bong Joon-ho

  Thinking, People, Prejudice

  Interview with Brent Simon, www.ign.com. March 8, 2007.

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• There is a vast difference between the outward clothing of the Spirit's power and the inward filling of the Spirit's life. In the first, despite the power, the hidden man of the heart may remain unchanged. In the latter, that monster is dealt with.

  Gene Edwards

  Heart, Men, Differences

  Gene Edwards (2016). “The Gene Edwards Collection: A Tale of Three Kings / The Prisoner in the Third Cell / The Divine Romance”, p.40, NavPress

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• I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.

  Ted Naifeh

  Roots, Feelings, Stories

  "Ted Naifeh Talks Courtney Crumrin & the Prince of Nowhere". Interview with Lan Pitts, www.newsarama.com. October 23, 2008.

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• I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is wrong, and it doesn't make the author's views less right. Poets, like their poems, are "hopeful monsters".

  Alice Fulton

  Reading, Mean, Views

  Alice Fulton (1999). “Feeling as a Foreign Language: The Good Strangeness of Poetry”

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• People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves... they feel better then. They find it easier to live.

  Andrzej Sapkowski

  Feel Better, People, Easier

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• I do well to interpret scripts to the best of my ability so even if I'm given a monster to play a love scene with, I will.

  Majid Michel

  Play, Scripts, Scene

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• In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.

  Roger Corman

  Fiction, Film, Leading Ladies

  Ed Naha, Roger Corman (1982). “The Films of Roger Corman: Brilliance on a Budget”

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• Violence is never the right answer, unless used against heathens and monsters.

  Alexander Anderson

  Answers, Violence, Used

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• Demons do not cry. You became a demon, because you couldn't cry anymore right? Humans cry and when their tears finally run dry, there's nothing left, not a demon nor a monster and one final prayer for death. So, laugh demon. Laugh that arrogant laugh of your and remember I beat you to it.

  Alexander Anderson

  Running, Prayer, Laughing

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• I was very shy as a kid but when I found out I could perform and have people's attention everything changed for me. My mom likes to joke that until I was eight or nine I only knew what my sneakers looked like because I constantly walked around with my head down. But all of a sudden the stage made sense and that's what brought me out of my shell and a monster was created.

  Justin Timberlake

  Mom, Kids, Eight

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think all kids understand from a very tender age that dinosaurs were real. They really walked around. That instantly sets them apart from monsters. And it instantly makes them safe. Because you can love 'em, and they're never going to bite you. They're not like a dog. They're safer than a pet, in a weird way.

  Stephen R. Bissette

  Dog, Real, Kids

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

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• The power of monsters is, it is a way of giving almost tangible substance to fears, beliefs, things that aren't real. You can coalesce it and draw it, or describe it, and it's a monster.

  Stephen R. Bissette

  Real, Giving, Substance

  Interview with Chris Dahlen, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

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• It was modesty that invented the word "philosopher" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Plato, Philosophical

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.294, Vintage

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