Nightmare Quotes - Page 27

• People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

  Jo Brand

  People, Criticism, Bitterness

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• As for 'story' I never yet did enjoy a novel or play in which someone didn't tell me afterward that there was something wrong with the story, so that's going to be no drawback as far as I'm concerned. "Good Lord, why am I so bored" "I know; it must be the plot developing harmoniously." So I often reply to myself, and there rises before me my special nightmare that of the writer as craftsman, natty and deft.

  E. M. Forster

  Play, Bored, Special

  Selected Letters (1983-1985): Letter 104, to Forrest Reid, June 19, 1912.

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• Could Artificial Intelligence End the Electronic Medical Record Nightmare?

  Kevin R. Stone

  Records, Medical, Ends

  "Could Artificial Intelligence End the Electronic Medical Record Nightmare?" by Kevin R. Stone, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2014.

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• Nightmares are releases.

  Sylvia Browne

  Release

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• I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old by giving the new slaves the illusion that they are free. The Economy does not take people's freedom by force, which would be against its principles, for it is very humane. It buys their freedom, pays for it, and then persuades its money back again with shoddy goods and the promise of freedom. "Buy a car," it says, "and be free. Buy a boat and be free." Is this not the raw material of bad dreams? Or is it maybe the very nightmare itself?

  Wendell Berry

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• I don't want to see anyone else looking like me.That'd be my nightmare. Though if I saw someone wearing what I did, I would know he was swaggy.

  Iman Shumpert

  Want, Saws, Like Me

  Source: wwd.com

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• Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream.

  Robert Englund

  Dream, Universality, Concepts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Everybody has a nightmare, and everybody apparently has falling dreams, and everybody has the drowning dream, and everybody has certain kinds of sexual manifestation dreams, as well as our stress dreams; I didn't study for the algebra test, I didn't study for my driving test, you know, all those dreams. I still have those dreams, and it's just such an interesting thing that our mind can turn against us, our own mind, you know we all have.

  Robert Englund

  Dream, Stress, Fall

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• There's a depth to the nightmare, to the symbolism you can exploit, on an intellectual level, on a sexual level, on a primal, violent level, and I think all of those things together are just great. They're the spice and ingredients in the menu of the horror movie, and I think that's why we'll be around for a long time.

  Robert Englund

  Thinking, Symbolism, Long

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

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• When you realize the writers start writing to who you are, you're basically reading reviews of yourself. And then it becomes this cyclical nightmare where I feel like I need to play into it, then I find myself acting like the character in real life.

  Ben Feldman

  Real, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Dream, Humanity, Vivid

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I saw an episode - the second episode [of Black Mirror], "Fifteen Million Merits" - and I completely flipped out: "This is what my nightmares are made of. This is the most terrifying thing I've ever seen."

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Mirrors, Black, Fifteen

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist.

  Jordan Peele

  Horror, Metaphor, Protagonists

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

  David Icke

  Dad, Children, Figure Skating

  "Beset by lizards" by Jon Ronson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.

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• I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.

  Ellie Goulding

  Thinking, Missing, Comforting

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

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• When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of 'War Of The Worlds,' 'Them,' and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' Those movies were scary! They haunted my nightmares for years, so when I started writing, I wanted to write a story that was just as big and just as scary.

  David Gerrold

  War, Writing, Kids

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

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• Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Growing Up, Real, Kids

  "Jonathan Safran Foer: 'I'm Not So Interested in the Comforting Kind of Religion'". Calvin College's Festival on Faith & Writing in Grand Rapids, Michigan, www.csmonitor.com. April 23, 2012.

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  I'm every woman's dream and every man's nightmare.

  Ric Flair

  Dream, Men, Every Man

  FaceBook post by Ric Flair, The Nature Boy from Jun 16, 2016

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• I think that one of the visions that is closest to reality is the cardboard city in the subway station in Tokyo, which is based very closely on a series of documentary photographs of people living like that and of the contents of the boxes. Those are quite haunting because Tokyo homeless people reiterate the whole nature of living in Tokyo in these cardboard boxes, they're only slightly smaller than Tokyo apartments, and they have almost as many consumer goods. It's a nightmare of boxes within boxes.

  William Gibson

  Reality, Thinking, Cities

  Source: craphound.com

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• Vinyl is so outdated nowadays. I can make a track in my hotel room today, and play it for the crowd tomorrow. That never happens with vinyl. I played a lot of acetates at the end of my vinyl period - I used to make tracks and get them pressed in four or five days - but the quality was always so bad and they would skip all the time. The vinyl days for me are over. I still buy vinyl, but only albums, and just to play. For DJing, vinyl is a nightmare.

  Tiesto

  Track, Quality, Today

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• [George W.] Bush's presidency was one of the great nightmares of my life to date.

  Alexander Weinstein

  Presidency

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.

  Bear Grylls

  Military, Fall, Months

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• Why would anything change that has not been changed since the existence of cinema? [James] Baldwin somehow wakes you up to reality. It takes you out of the dream - or out of the nightmare.

  Raoul Peck

  Dream, Reality, Cinema

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• A dramatic unwinding of that relationship [between USA and China], by way of an aggressive trade policy, is one of the nightmare scenarios for the global economy as a whole, because it would result in a spiraling depreciation of the dollar, a surge in American interests rates, a collapse in the market for American government debt.

  Judy Woodruff

  Government, Usa, Dollars

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If I had to do the most consistent nightmares I have, it's probably Russia, because they're so global in their efforts to bring down democratic systems. But, I'm also worried about what could end our civilization if we started a nuclear confrontation - North Korea is clearly in our sights as an immediate major concern.

  Ben Cardin

  Effort, Worried, Democratic

  Source: www.politico.com

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