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• When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.

  Jackie DeShannon

  People, House, Trying

  Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. August 2, 2015.

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• Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.

  Jeff Goodell

  Stars, Aka, Worst Nightmares

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• I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

  Lisa Gardner

  Night, Ghost Stories, Staircases

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• How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Love, Dreaming About You, Daydreaming

  "Afterthoughts".

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• Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

  Robert Englund

  Play, Lines, Forget

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

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• That's what I am, America's nightmare. I am what you made me, the hate and evil that you gave me.

  Tupac Shakur

  Hate, Reality, America

  Song: Words of Wisdom, Album: 2Pacalypse Now

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• When I think of 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' there was a warmth to those teenagers that I related to. They were not aware that they were in the middle of a horror film, and I really loved those characters and I empathized with them.

  Jason Reitman

  Teenager, Character, Thinking

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• Honestly, to tell you the truth, being trapped in any video game sounds like a living nightmare to me. In most video games, the point is it's a fight for survival, so I think it would be a terrifying place to live.

  John C. Reilly

  Fighting, Thinking, Games

  "Interview: John C. Reilly on his animated anti-hero "Wreck-It Ralph". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. October 31, 2012.

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• Dreams were the worst. Of course I dreamed of food and love, but they were pleasant rather than otherwise. But then I'd dream of things like slitting a baby's throat, mistaking it for a baby goat. I'd have nightmares of other islands stretching away from mine, infinities of islands, islands spawning islands, like frogs' eggs turning into polliwogs of islands, knowing that I had to live on each and every one, eventually, for ages, registering their flora, their fauna, their geography.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Dream, Baby, Islands

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Geography III: Poems”, p.15, Macmillan

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• I understand now why Hillary Clinton always wore navy blue pantsuits. Remember, for four years? If you have one or two themes, then you have the same shoes, the same bag. Otherwise, it's a nightmare.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Shoes, Two, Blue

  "The Audacity of Minnesota: Senator Amy Klobuchar". Interview with Lisa Depaulo, www.elle.com. March 30, 2010.

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• I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Real, Thinking, Records

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• Ghosts Take shape under moonlight, materialize in dreams. Shadows. Silhouettes of what is no more. But ghosts don't bother me. The day brings bigger things to worry about than flimsy remains of yesterday. No, spooks don't scare me. Gauzy apparitions might prank your psyche or agitate your nightmares, but lacking flesh and blood they are powerless to hurt you-cannot hope to inflict the kind of damage that real, live people do.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dream, Hurt, Real

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• Those other 10 o'clock shows that come on, all you get from them is headaches and nightmares when you go to bed! At least we give you food, know what I mean?

  Emeril Lagasse

  Mean, Giving, Bed

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• I used to have nightmares about the Antichrist - what would happen, where it would come from, and who it would be.

  Marilyn Manson

  Would Be, Used, Antichrist

  "Interview: Manson on Religion". abcnews.go.com.

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• I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare.

  John Mayer

  Disappointment, Punishment, Dating

  "John Mayer Just Has to Please the Girls". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. November 20, 2009.

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• I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.

  John Mayer

  Hate, Work Out, Heartbreaker

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• I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.

  Kevin McCloud

  Thinking, Gutters, Wake Up

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• If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that's it. You're not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You're not going to read that book again.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Reading, Heart

  "Narrative Magazine’s Friday Feature: Margaret Atwood Interview, In Which She Talks About “A Handmaid’s Tale”, “The Year Of The Flood” And Having Fun". Interview with Jo Scott-Coe, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

  Conan O'Brien

  Party, People, Television

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

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• I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Simple, Men, Tvs

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

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• Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.

  Karl Pilkington

  Hate, India, Idiot

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

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• It was a nightmare having cameras in the house 10 hours a day for a month.

  Kathy Griffin

  House, Cameras, Months

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• Today is built on tragedies, which no one wants to face, nightmares to humanities and morally disgraced. Tonight is filled with rage, violence in the air, children bred with ruthlessness because no one at home cares.

  Tupac Shakur

  Children, Home, Reality

  Tupac Shakur (1999). “The Rose That Grew From Concrete”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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• My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

  Barbra Streisand

  Home, People, Sick

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• The moral angle to the foreclosure crisis - and, of course, in capitalism we're not supposed to be concerned with the moral stuff, but let's mention it anyway - shows a culture that is slowly giving in to a futuristic nightmare ideology of computerized greed and unchecked financial violence.

  Matt Taibbi

  Giving, Greed, Culture

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