Nightmare Quotes - Page 23

• I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

  Jung Chang

  West, Firsts, Merit

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• My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

  Voltaire

  Life, Dream, Has Beens

  Voltaire (1919). “Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence”

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• To a police officer, a sawed off shotgun is the ultimate nightmare. You can blow someone in half!

  Steven Seagal

  Blow, Police, Half

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• A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It seemed to me that I was coming out of a suffocating nightmare and that the low clouds flying before the wind were the shreds of an evil dream.

  Blaise Cendrars

  Dream, Clouds, Wind

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• My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.

  John Wozniak

  Time, Play, Brain

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• I don't have holiday nightmares, but the worst part about holidays is airports for me. It's the travelling to it that's the pain really. But if there's a problem, I just sort it out and get on with it. What's the point of letting it ruin your holiday? It's a waste of time and a waste of life otherwise. Just open that champagne and have a ball. I've always got a drink in my hand, have you noticed that?

  Jane McDonald

  Pain, Holiday, Wasting Time

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• I rehearsed it a lot underwater with a mouthpiece for Casino Royale and not freaking out, because you can't see a thing. It's like being in a really bad nightmare. I've never seen somebody drown, but I really swallowed water. It was like choreography. It was very emotional. I was crying underwater at one point.

  Eva Green

  Emotional, Water, Cry

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You never in a million years thought that you would ever end up in a Woody Allen film even though that might be your dream, and there you are. Suddenly you've got one. But you're not playing the quintessential Woody Allen heroine, which is somebody that's full of self-doubt and heartbreakingly naïve. Chloe in Match Point was a nightmare in some ways and totally entitled, and felt like everything was going to be all right. Most of the women in Woody Allen films feel like everything's awful. I didn't understand what to do. But some of the confusion is helpful.

  Emily Mortimer

  Dream, Confusion, Helpful

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Once I reached my 40s, I thought to myself that if I'm going to play live now, I need to really mean this. I can't go out and be a little bit, for one moment slovenly in my choices as a performer. I mean, these people have paid a lot of money to be here, they've been through the nightmare of getting here, starving themselves waiting for us to get on stage, so I'm going to give them what they came here for.

  Michael Stipe

  Mean, People, Giving

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I deal with the depraved, the sick, the pathetic, the disturbing and the profoundly depressed. I will try it all on. I will try on what I am and what I never want to be. And everything I wanted to be, but never can be. I can be a supermodel, or your worst nightmare. Off-stage, I just get to leave it, and nobody thinks I'm like that. This is what prevents me from being a psychopath and a sociopath, my time on stage.

  Susan Messing

  Thinking, Sick, Trying

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Imagination is always greater than reality, and the reality of a sex paradise is that they offer a supposed escape from the nightmare of repressive society.

  Francis Levy

  Reality, Imagination

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always thought everybody made up stories in their heads - never thought about actually writing them down on paper until I was snowed in with the kids in the blizzard of '79 - 3 feet of snow. I live in a rural area and was stuck. No morning kindergarten - it was a nightmare.

  Nora Roberts

  Morning, Kids, Writing

  "Not My Job: We Quiz Author Nora Roberts (aka JD Robb) On J.D. Salinger". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 25, 2017.

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• Donald Trump is an especially depressing phenomena because he is so debased and debasing and millions and millions of people want him to be president. We're seeing how at least whole swathes of white America are becoming your worst nightmare of eternal Zombie High School. Something like a perfect mix of Groundhog Day and The Moronic Inferno. How can it be that a guy who looks like a bloated cadaver pulled from the Gowanus canal, with some rouge on his cheeks and a sticky Something About Mary wig, is actually applauded by his followers for making fun of how other people look?

  Francisco Goldman

  Depressing, Fun, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Most fan have been like, "You're a monster, you give me nightmares, don't talk to me."

  Valorie Curry

  Giving, Like You, Talk To Me

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• Unfortunately, unlike when my parents grew up, you can't turn social media off. It's not like you can go home and avoid the bully's wrath. It follows you everywhere and is 24/7, and especially in the cases of assault that go viral. I mean, your worst nightmare is literally on the internet forever and that is a reality that very few people understand.

  Andrea Pino

  Home, Mean, Reality

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I think when I started modeling three years ago, it was just a job, and I was so excited - everything was so new, so crazy. I didn't overthink anything; I just did it and enjoyed myself along the way. But after a few seasons, you get used to it, and there's a lot you actually have to think about, and, I don't know, it just makes you much more aware of what you look like and what other people think. It's a bit of a nightmare.

  Cara Delevingne

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Despite wanting to work in publishing, I was a publisher's worst nightmare: I rarely bought new books. So my goal was to publish the kind of books I would buy, and read. My reading habits have changed since starting the press. The only other "goal", per say, is to continue to experiment. I don't want the press to ever fall into a formula, or to be pigeonholed - "They do great reissues of modernist poets!" - I want to keep pushing, exploring the kind of title we can get away with. And working with authors who challenge the way I think about writing, editing and reading.

  Andrew Latimer

  Book, Fall, Reading

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Any time you do anything different in this life, it's risky. But I've only done things differently, and it's gotten me quite far. If you want to make a splash, you've got to step out on that ledge and jump. And I could land flat on my face and it would be the biggest nightmare of my life. I'm willing to risk it. I want to help change the way male chefs see females. I want to show them that, yes, we're emotional and, yes, sometimes we make irrational decisions, but we're passionate about what we do, and that passion will propel us to the next level.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Passion, Emotional, Decision

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• My kind of nightmare quote is from Deborah Tolman, who does research on girls and desire and is, I think, brilliant. She told me that by the time girls are teenagers, when she asks them how sexual experience made them feel, they respond by how they think they looked; they think that how they look is how they feel.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Teenager, Thinking

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• The future of Afghanistan is incredibly dark, and decisions are happening incredibly quickly. Speculation is a fool's game, but I've seen many political projections that look like the Taliban could hold most of the country, and possibly Kabul, within perhaps a short time. I can't imagine how Afghanistan's fall isn't going to be ten times faster than Iraq's. The role of women in that space is terrifying, and the idea of retribution is a nightmare.

  Eliza Griswold

  Country, Fall, Dark

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have a scenario but almost always it's entwined with at least one person to begin with. Then I sort of expand from there and I'm thinking about books novels. I've got these scrolls of paper that I hang up in my office and this is my idea room, my nightmare factory, and I have a big title at the top of the scroll and on the left hand side I have these character sketches on the characters, and then once I figure out who they are I can figure out what they want and once I figure out what they want I'm able to put obstacles in the way of that desire, and that's where plot springs from.

  Benjamin Percy

  Spring, Book, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Survivors told me that sleep was a great escape from the nightmare that was Jonestown. I also longed for bedtime each night at Escuela Caribe; sleep allowed me to forget where I was for a few hours.

  Julia Scheeres

  Sleep, Night, Survivor

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The ratings thing is the real issue. It really hurts movies. For example, in Redbelt, I smoked. The whole plot of my character was based on the fact that I was a smoker. And then they discovered that just by having someone smoking in the movie, it immediately makes the rating an R. So they had to cut out every shot where I had a cigarette in my hand and it totally affected the performance. That was very frustrating to David Mamet as well. I can remember him saying, "It's a nightmare."

  Emily Mortimer

  Hurt, Real, Character

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Indonesia is now undeniably a ruined country. It has sunk to the level of sub-Saharan African nations. It has malls and luxury hotels in several cities, but in between them it is an absolute nightmare, with all the basic services either missing, or on a totally inadequate level.

  Andre Vltchek

  Country, Missing, Hotel

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We all have nightmares, we all wake up, we all have certain ideas of something that could be hiding around the corner and the question of does that really exist, but we get on with our lives.

  Rupert Wyatt

  Ideas, Doe, Wake Up

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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