Nightmare Quotes - Page 24

• I had a checkered early career, for sure, with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about.

  Curtis Hanson

  Taken, Cutting, Careers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I found Jumpy on YouTube. I wrote a movie about a guy with a dog and was like, "What have I done? This is going to be a nightmare. We're a small movie and we're never going to be able to do this."

  Ti West

  Dog, Guy, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In a two-year period, all my dreams came true: the birth of a son... publishing a best-selling book... launching a successful organization... joining the [Barack] Obama Administration... And then all my nightmares came true.

  Van Jones

  Dream, Book, Son

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The Enlightenment is not a nightmare, nor is it something that comes easily to us. It is an aspiration - and a good one!

  Dale Jamieson

  Enlightenment, Aspiration

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Youth are becoming the site of society's nightmares.

  Henry Giroux

  Becoming, Youth, Site

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Allowing an independent and sovereign Iraq could be a nightmare for the United States. It would mean that it would be Shi'ite-dominated, at least if it's minimally democratic. It would continue to improve relations with Iran, just what the United States doesn't want to see. And beyond that, right across the border in Saudi Arabia where most of Saudi oil is, there happens to be a large Shi'ite population, probably a majority.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mean, Independent, Iran

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I grew up in a little village in Kerala. It was a nightmare for me. All I wanted to do was to escape, to get out, to never have to marry somebody there. Of course, they were not dying to marry me. I was the worst thing a girl could be: thin, black, and clever.

  Arundhati Roy

  Girl, Clever, Black

  Source: progressive.org

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• I'm a great self-doubter. I constantly need to prove myself to myself. I've never run to heroin or alcohol to hide that. I always have to deal with it. Stage fright is always going to be there. I have nightmares about bad gigs.

  John Lydon

  Running, Self, Alcohol

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• Some people would find just the rhythm of my films alone to be a nightmare; they'd probably just fall asleep because they want something quicker. Other people fall into it and it works for them like a dream.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Dream, Fall, Want Something

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• If an actor ever says they really enjoy the auditioning process, I truly believe that they're lying. It's an anxiety-filled waking nightmare. It's awful.

  Timothy Simons

  Lying, Believe, Enjoy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Every refugee finds his American dream on the backs of the nightmare of Black suffering in America.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Dream, Black, Suffering

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Obama's decision to leave, to not sustain the victory that resulted after eight years of fighting, from 2003 to 2011 in Iraq, was another incredibly stupid decision. It was totally based on politics, not based on any notion of national security. It's a nightmare for our national security. And then you have the Libya intervention.

  Michael T. Flynn

  Stupid, Fighting, Decision

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What I'm starting to really grapple with, as someone who likes to tell stories, is that humans more than any other animal species seem open and willing to control, assert dominance, and behave cruelly. That's a whole kind of new nightmare to really have to face about your own species. That we are, in some respects, cannibalistic, in that we are willing to destroy ourselves. That's really something for me to be exploring over the long haul.

  Karyn Kusama

  Animal, Long, Kind

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• We've heard so much about the American dream: well, Trump is the American nightmare made flesh. All the things about 'the ugly American' that we worry about and which the Americans see in themselves, it's all of that. This is a politics of egotistical display.

  Billy Bragg

  Dream, Worry, Ugly

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Some are exploring the world through the subconscious. I've done that on occasions for various reasons, whether it be illness or self abuse, or whatever. Once things start to look grotesque I don't write them or sing them. I couldn't write them - making nightmares into living daylight...The minute it gets dark I shoot back, retreat.

  Nick Cave

  Writing, Dark, Abuse

  Source: thequietus.com

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• A few people have come back to me and said, "Thanks for giving me nightmares for the last few nights!" I say to them, "Well, now you know what I've been going through for the last three years!"

  Rudolf Buitendach

  Night, Years, People

  Source: variety.com

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• We can only escape the bloody and ignorant nightmare of history by exploring alternatives which today look frighteningly weird.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Ignorant, Alternatives, Looks

  "Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick". Book by Peter J. Carroll, 1995.

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• All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

  Jack Kerouac

  Men, Land, Big Sur

  Jack Kerouac (1992). “Pomes All Sizes: Pocket Poets Number 48”, p.158, City Lights Books

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• Getting married was a ball. Being married was... a nightmare.

  Kid Rock

  Balls, Married, Getting Married

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• I have nightmares that I'm going to wake up, and everyone's driving a Prius and living in a condo, and we're all getting health insurance.

  Kid Rock

  Wake Up, Driving, Prius

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• The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Thinking, Hours

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• I used to have nightmares when I was a little kid that I woke up prematurely and opened all the Christmas presents. And then I would be so relieved when I woke up and I realized that I hadn't done it.

  Claire Danes

  Kids, Done, Littles

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• 'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it.

  Eli Roth

  Forever, Stuff, Like You

  "24 Hours Of Horror With Eli Roth". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 24, 2007.

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• Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.

  John Cusack

  Real, Flip, Comic

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• Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it's been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it's a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier.

  Susan Sarandon

  Jobs, Balance, Trying

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. November 1, 2004.

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