Scare Quotes - Page 19

• At the end of the day, a "jump scare" scares the audience for the moment. Slow burn horror ideas scare people forever.

  Scott Derrickson

  Ideas, People, Forever

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• We're fascinated by things that scare us, and one of the things that scares us is violence. Violence exists. It's a real part of our lives. We are obsessed with what we're scared of, but it certainly doesn't define us.

  Ethan Hawke

  Real, Violence, Obsessed

  "Ethan Hawke Talks THE PURGE, Making Genre Movies, What the Film Says about Society, Violence in the Media, the Rating System, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

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• I love movies that have that resonating scare, that really get under your skin and make you think.

  Eli Roth

  Thinking, Movie Love, Make You Think

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't necessarily look for what I respond to in a script. I look for things that scare me, and take that as an indication that I should probably do it. I don't want to be bored. I look for challenges. I look for a variety of different things because it's so easy to go the cliche route.

  Liana Liberato

  Bored, Challenges, Scripts

  Source: collider.com

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• Some people aren't comfortable with being comfortable. Some people really want to be pushed and find people that they can pull something out of you that you didn't know you had, and you can scare yourself.

  Kristen Stewart

  People, Want, Knows

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We are creatures. We have a link with a native habitat just like every other species. Throughout most of human history, physical activity was unavoidable, calories were scarce and hard to get. In the modern era, calories are unavoidable, physical activity is scare and hard to get. The traits that allowed our ancestors to survive, and let's face it, the survival of our ancestors is the reason that we're here because the people who don't survive and make very crummy ancestors, are our traits. But they're very much at odds with the modern environment.

  David Katz

  People, Survival, Environment

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Advice, World, Save The World

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.38, W. W. Norton & Company

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• What are you? Insane? I’m not interested in Ms. Preppy Uptight Sloan Ranger. Jeez. I’d get khaki between my teeth. Can you imagine? I’ve never been in khaki and I never want to see a woman out it. It scares me. (Dev)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Insane, Teeth, Uptight

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• I don't enjoy the boo scare when you're watching a movie and then suddenly there's a big shark on the screen. The only thing they're doing is catching you off guard.

  Sergio Aragones

  Sharks, Bigs, Catching

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• Thank you. It used to be knee length, but then I discovered that when I get angry I like to cut things. I'm not allowed to have scissors any more. It's still pretty lengthy, but I've been threatening to shave half of it for the past week and nobody seems to believe me... I do it all myself though because I scream when I'm touched and that scares people.

  Emilie Autumn

  Believe, Cutting, Past

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• Do something that scares you everyday.

  Melina Marchetta

  Everyday, Saving Francesca

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.197, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• At one O'Clock, Miss Celia comes in the kitchen and says she's ready for her first cooking lesson. She settles on a stool. She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Makeup, Sweaters, Missing

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.52, Penguin

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• Amos sipped his coffee. The faraway look on his face reminded me of my dad. “I don’t want to scare you.” “Too late.

  Rick Riordan

  Dad, Coffee, Looks

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• In all the universe, your mother is the only thing that truly scares me, especially where you’re concerned. I don’t ever want to be on her dark side. (Adron) Ha ha. And need I remind you my mother wasn’t the one screaming at the pool when you got shoved in. (Devyn) Yeah, all right, so we both have screwed-up, irrational mothers. (Adron)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Dark, Needs

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice: The League: Nemesis Rising”, p.5, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• No worries. They don’t scare me. (Devyn) All right, but if my brain matter ends up smeared against a wall, I’ll never forgive you. (Alix)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Wall, Worry, Forgiving

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice”, p.36, Macmillan

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• Boy, you better check that tone. (Wulf) Yeah, yeah, ya scare me. I’m even wetting my pants while in your terrifying, gut-wrenching presence. See me shiver and quiver? Ooo, ahhh, ooo. (Chris)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Pants, Tone

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• She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Makeup, Sweaters, Red

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.52, Penguin

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• Chin up, Ferdinand," I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. "What with being chucked out of everywhere, you're sure to find whatever it is that scares all those bastards so. It must be at the end of the night, and that's why they're so dead set against going to the end of the night.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Night, Chin Up, Ends

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• I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy I wanna scare people.

  Richard Schiff

  People, Guy, Action

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

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• Not too fast," called Raoul. "Let's not scare anyone." "His majesty said with all deliberate speed!" chirped the courier. He flinched under Lerant's glare. "That's how we're doing it," Raoul told him. "Deliberately.

  Tamora Pierce

  Majesty, Speed, Glare

  Tamora Pierce (2014). “Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.439, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me - cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

  Zachary Quinto

  Thinking, Interesting, Fearless

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

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• I won’t snatch, harm, or scare to death people with you or use checking up on you as an excuse to cause trouble. You’re worse than my mother, Rachel.” “Mine, too,” Jenks muttered.

  Kim Harrison

  Mother, People, Use

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• Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife

  Robin Tunney

  Women, Years, Differences

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• Whether I scare some people or not, I don't give a hoot. If you're not scared by now, nothing can scare you.

  Yuri Bezmenov

  People, Giving, Hoot

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• God forbid I should bleed to death, eh? Then you'd have to cart around my rotting corpse. (Kyrian) Could you be any more morbid? Jeez, who was your idol growing up? Boris Karloff? (Amanda) Hannibal, actually. (Kyrian) You're trying to scare me, aren't you? Well, it won't work. I grew up in a house with an angry poltergeist and two sisters who used to conjure demons just to fight them. Buster, I've seen it all and your gallows humor isn't working on me. (Amanda)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Growing Up, Fighting, Idols

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