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• I spoke so much about being a manic-depressive. I want to bring everyone back to my earliest memories of this companion of mine. Some people call this companion I have an ailment, or worse a terrible nightmare from which some people cannot awaken. I know that I have nothing to be ashamed of. I have nothing that should garner a stigma.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Memories, People, Want

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• Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.

  Jon Ronson

  Stories, Compounds, Jew

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• I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. Bambi gave me nightmares.

  Danielle Panabaker

  Growing Up, Watches, Horror

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• Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Boys, Men, Thinking

  Song: Can You Hear Them?, Album: Down To Earth

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• My nightmare of nightmares is being overdressed for a casual event - I've done it! You have to have a real sense of what you want to communicate.

  Nina Garcia

  Real, Done, Want

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• In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.

  Sharon Gless

  Dream, Baby, Children

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• Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they're willing to take that risk.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Gun, Evil, House

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• And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Scream, Hours

  H. P. Lovecraft (2011). “H. P. Lovecraft Fiction Collection”, p.358, Boris Lariushin

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• My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe.

  Brigitte Nielsen

  Girl, School, Childhood

  "Brigitte Nielsen" by Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2011.

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• I used to look at horror movies as being really real and it would totally freak me out and give me nightmares. Now I watch and think, 'whoa how'd they do that?

  Evan Peters

  Real, Thinking, Giving

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

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• Welcome to my nightmare, I think your going to like it.

  Alice Cooper

  Thinking, Insanity, Welcome

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• Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Dream, Fantasy, Horror

  "EXCLUSIVE: Cassandra Peterson Talks Elvira's Movie Macabre" by B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. June 13, 2011.

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• Albania in 1994 was the strangest place I've ever seen. It was like walking into the looking glass: falling apart, paranoid people, anarchy, no one farming, full of thieves. It was beyond any Third World country. They were living in their own private nightmare.

  Paul Theroux

  Country, Fall, Glasses

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.

  Norman Mailer

  Democracy, Ends, Ifs

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to do is provide people with nightmares which are really safe places to put those fears for a while because you can say afterwards that uh, that, that well it was all just make-believe anyway, so I just took my emotions for a walk.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Writing, Thinking

  "Stephen King and Director Frank Darabont Talk The Mist". The Mist press conference, movieweb.com. November 13, 2007.

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• I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it.

  Colin Baker

  Reading, Scripts, Looking Forward

  "Colin Baker ('Doctor Who')". Interview with Ben Rawson-Jones, www.digitalspy.com. December 14, 2009.

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• A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.

  Danny Boyle

  Trying, Directors, Looks

  "The sun is the star" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2007.

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• Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.

  Dale Archer

  Stress, Mind, Let It Go

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• I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.

  Emma Caulfield

  Thinking, Worst Nightmares, People

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• The time leading up to the 1996 Olympics was the most demanding and stressful of my career. The sport I had loved so much was slowly becoming a nightmare as I trained with Bela and Marta Karolyi the summer before the Olympics.

  Dominique Moceanu

  Summer, Sports, Careers

  Dominique Moceanu (2012). “Off Balance: A Memoir”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• I inherited this collection of vinyl records, which at that time numbered 6,000, and I've since continued to collect music. As you know, vinyl records can be very heavy, so every time I have to move into a new house, I need to build a complete new wall of shelves to put all these records, which is a nightmare for the architect.

  Frida Giannini

  Wall, Moving, House

  Interview with Dave Gahan, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 12, 2011.

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• The Book of Revelation is the strangest book in the Bible, and the most controversial. Instead of stories and moral teaching, it offers only visions - dreams and nightmares, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, earthquakes, plagues and war.

  Elaine Pagels

  Dream, War, Book

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• It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.

  Cara Delevingne

  People, Pieces, Want

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

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• My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire.

  David Copperfield

  Uncles, Fire, Years

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• Don't stop dreaming just because you had a nightmare.

  Jill Scott

  Dream, Stop Dreaming

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