Monsters Quotes - Page 39

• I've always loved movies dealing with the terror of a woman who doesn't really know her husband and finds out that he's a monster. It's one of my favorite plots.

  Anna Biller

  Husband, Plot, My Favorite

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All I want is for people not to see me as this cartoon monster.

  Jack Abramoff

  People, Cartoon, Want

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• I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

  J. J. Abrams

  Issues, Fiction, Horror

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

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• Country was about character. Country's changed because of monsters like Clear Channel who bought up all the stations and sliced them up into formats. Our demographic is now the soccer mom.

  Gary Allan

  Soccer, Mom, Country

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• Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hero, Scary, Overcoming

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• I grew up in Chicago, so I've always been a Bears fan. Dad used to take me to Bears games and Cubs games. My brother used to ride me over to Lake Forest College on his Honda Supersport and we'd watch the Bears practice. I remember those guys out there as monsters - they were the biggest things I've ever seen!

  Kyle Chandler

  Brother, Dad, College

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

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• Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.

  Junot Diaz

  Memories, Giving, Narrative

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• I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, "the press."

  Marianne Faithfull

  Focus, Individual, Bigs

  "Marianne Faithfull: 'I don't think I had any choice but to be decadent'". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. January 10, 2013.

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• So, I'm on Sesame Street, walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. Sesame Street is just a crazy great place to be.

  Feist

  Fun, Stupid, Crazy

  "Headed for the top". Interview with Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2008.

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• It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream.

  Nathan Fillion

  Writing, Past, Talking

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• I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

  Lady Gaga

  Funny, Dream, Stars

  "Readers recommend: songs about ambition" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2015.

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• I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

  Lady Gaga

  Religious, Balls, Religious Experience

  "Lady Gaga: Lording it". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

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• 'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.

  Jackie Earle Haley

  Aliens, Horror, Film

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• I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in Monster. I'd love to have to shave my head.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Crazy, Character, Play

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• I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.

  Ang Lee

  Hero, Character, Thinking

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• There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships.

  Lisa Loeb

  Song, Children, Book

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• To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.

  Haniel Long

  Loyalty, Men, Humanity

  Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”

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• I'm not great at dealing with death, I have to say. I find death very hard: my mum, my dad, Sid Vicious. I'm not a monster; I feel it and it scares me. One death at a time, please, is all my heart will bear.

  John Lydon

  Dad, Heart, Scare

  "Sex Pistols, 'posh boys' Cameron and Clegg, and those butter ads" by Michael Odell, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2010.

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• Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.

  John Malkovich

  Fashion, Scary, Hula

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• Every teenager deals in his or her own sexuality and has to face it and figure out how it can coincide with the rest of their lives in a healthy manner. And try to navigate it in our modern society, which is wrought with stigma and taboo and repression, and sort of as a result, these inner monsters that some teenagers really struggle with.

  Ezra Miller

  Teenager, Struggle, Healthy

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• Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

  Alanis Morissette

  Birthday, Sarcasm, Thinking

  "I've been a thorn in people's sides just by existing" by Lucy O'Brien, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2008.

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• New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Jobs, Character, Ebay

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• I've been reading Greek mythology since I was a kid. I also taught it when I was a sixth grade teacher, so I knew a lot of mythological monsters already. Sometimes I still use books and Web sites to research, though. Every time I research Greek mythology, I learn something new!

  Rick Riordan

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.

  Grace Slick

  Jobs, White, Interesting

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• I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?

  Wilbur Smith

  Children, Perfect, Want

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