Scare Quotes - Page 25

• I've often thought that it would be great to do some acting because nobody would think that I would be able to do it and it scares the living hell out of me.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Thinking, Acting, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• Since the show [Helix] is based in real science, there are real-life epidemic scares out there, throughout history, where there are these huge viruses that have wiped out huge populations. So, we're dealing with something that the CDC hasn't seen before, but it comes from a virus. That's something that's based in reality, and then you put the science fiction on that and it's a really interesting combination.

  Kyra Zagorsky

  Real, Epidemics, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• Any magazine-cover hack can splash paint around wildly and call it a nightmare, or a witches sabbath or a portrait of the devil; but only a great painter can make such a thing really scare or ring true. That's because only a real artist knows the anatomy of the terrible, or the physiology of fear.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Real, Writing, Artist

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories”, p.46, H. P. Lovecraft

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• In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no point in triumphing over evil if the evil isn't scary.

  Neil Gaiman

  Kids, Order, Evil

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• I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

  Taylor Swift

  Hurt, Thinking, People

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• The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Dream, Women, Empowering

  Harvard Commencement remarks, news.harvard.edu. May 26, 2011.

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• Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone". Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.

  Stephen Covey

  Goal, Challenges, Comfort

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• Jennifer to Beth: Ech. I don't like Tom Cruise. Beth to Jennifer: Me neither. But I usually like Tom Cruise movies. Jennifer to Beth: Me too... Huh, maybe I do like Tom Cruise. But I hate feeling pressured to find him attractive. I don't. Beth to Jennifer: Nobody does. It's a lie perpetuated by the American media. Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts. Jennifer to Beth: Men don't like Julia Roberts? Beth to Jennifer: Nope. Her teeth scare them. Jennifer to Beth: Good to know.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Hate, Lying, Men

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• I get the Playboy thing a lot. People assume I go out with bimbos. I couldn`t go out with bimbos if I tried! I scare them off! The women that like me are smart. So I go to the Playboy Mansion four or five times a year, but people think I go all the time.

  Bill Maher

  Smart, Thinking, Years

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

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• Okay, now you're starting to scare me," Wes says. "No, scary is the way people can alter their voices on cue. Like your imitation of that creepy guy who lives at your house." "You mean my dad?" he laughs.

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Dad, Mean, Voice

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• When I think about being out of the business, it scares me.

  Kane

  Thinking

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• Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

  Lance Armstrong

  Hurt, Two, Scary

  Interview with Kevin Cook, www.playboy.com. June 2005.

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• Honestly, when you're writing you try to stay on the story, on the character's mind, trying to throw stuff at them. There is danger, and the scares have to kick in the right places with the drama. And you try not to do too much to try to create those moments. Those moments create themselves.

  Fede Alvarez

  Drama, Writing, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• Damon Scares me,' Maggie said. 'Maybe you should do what he wants.' 'Can't.' 'Why not?' 'Because he killed me. That kind of pisses me off

  D. J. MacHale

  Why Not, Want, Kind

  D.J. MacHale (2012). “The Black”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Is that how you're going to take me? Scare me into voluntarily coming aboard, then steal my Ice Cube?" "It's always cubes with you," noted Foaly, somewhat randomly. "What's wrong with a nice sphere?

  Eoin Colfer

  Nice, Cubes, Spheres

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• They cannot scare me with their empty spaces Between stars—on stars where no human race is. I have it in me so much nearer home To scare myself with my own desert places.

  Robert Frost

  Romantic, Stars, Home

  Further Range (1936) "Desert Places"

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• I feel that the world is in a really dangerous place and it scares me.

  Stevie Nicks

  World, Dangerous, Feels

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• I just don't really get to watch a lot of movies, like recently at least I haven't been able to but I did watch The Exorcist for the first time ever, recently, and it didn't scare me like I thought it was gonna scare me.

  Melanie Martinez

  Watches, Able, Firsts

  Interview with Jamie Taylor, concertaddicts.com. February 22, 2016.

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• By experiencing your emotions somatically, there is no boogie man to scare you.

  Gary Zukav

  Men, Emotion, Boogie

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.awaken.com. August 18, 2013.

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• Horror movies scare me, because I watch them as just - I don't even watch them as an actor.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Horror

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.

  Nicki Minaj

  Moving, Love You, People

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• Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

  Bette Midler

  Groups, Want, Pants

  Bette Midler (1980). “A View from a Broad”, Simon & Schuster

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• I am not afraid of dying. I have lived longer than most people in the world. What scares me is to have a body that works but a brain that is waving goodbye. If that happens, I hope I die quickly.

  Henning Mankell

  Goodbye, People, Brain

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• Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  People, Dolls, Collections

  "Fashion diary" by Rachel Holmes and Kate Carter, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2008.

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  Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Comfort, Vivid, Capable

  "Speechless" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.newyorker.com. September 12, 2011.

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