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• I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Halloween, Grows, Findings

  FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Nov 14, 2013

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• I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Halloween, Writing, Way

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• Ghostly things don't really scare me, but they really intrigue me.

  Sophie Turner

  Halloween, Intrigue

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• Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.

  Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  Halloween, Racing, Answers

  "Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Speech at the London Interparliamentary Conference". The Advocate of Peace, Volume 68, No. 9, archive.org. September 1906.

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• If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important.

  Tim Ferriss

  Fear, Challenges, Important

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• I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it seeming inconsequential compared to how I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.

  Aimee Carter

  Relationship, Voice, Want

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• The things that scare me are real life situations. Real life is much more scary than anything you can put on the movie screen. Which is why I get very upset when people try to blame the movies for the violence in this world. I'm like 'Are you kidding me?'. There is more violence in a four hour period on CNN than any movie I have in my massive collection.

  Corey Taylor

  Real, Cnn, People

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• In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion is this: Make it easy on yourself. Find a working environment where the prospect of wrestling with your muse doesn't scare you, doesn't shut you down. It should make you want to be there, and once you find it, stick with it. To get the creative habit, you need a working environment that's habit-forming. All preferred working states, no matter how eccentric, have one thing in common: When you enter into them, they compel you to get started.

  Twyla Tharp

  Creativity, Wrestling, Creative

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• Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.

  Alice Hoffman

  Mother, Cancer, Waiting

  Alice Hoffman (2000). “Local Girls”, p.45, Penguin Group

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• You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.

  Larry McMurtry

  Mean, Cowboy

  Larry McMurtry (2015). “The Last Kind Words Saloon”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground because it scares people too much and it's too much for people to take on. Especially when a culture is held hostage by fear and hysteria and fundamentalism.

  RuPaul

  Men, Thinking, Hysteria

  Interview with T Lo, tomandlorenzo.com. March 3, 2009.

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• Be tenacious. One thing that has allowed me to have some level of success is that I am fine with cold-calling people. It doesn't scare me to call someone who has no idea who I am and say I'd love to take you to lunch.

  Blake Mycoskie

  Ideas, Lunch, Who I Am

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• These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

  Cory Doctorow

  Children, Naughty, Used

  Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross (2012). “The Rapture of the Nerds: A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations”, p.66, Macmillan

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• When you do the thing you fear, the thing loses its power to scare.

  Martha Beck

  Loses

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• What scares me is what scares you. We’re all afraid of the same things. That’s why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you’ll know what frightens me.

  John Carpenter

  Powerful, Horror Genre, Knows

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• You find that being vulnerable is the only way to allow your heart to feel true pleasure that's so real it scares you. You find strength in knowing you have a true friend and possibly a soul mate who will remain loyal to the end.

  Bob Marley

  Love, True Friend, Real

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• More time on the problem isn't the way. More guts is. When you expose yourself to the opportunities that scare you, you create something scarce, something others won't do.

  Seth

  Opportunity, Way, Problem

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• White people scare the crap out of me. I have never been attacked by a black person, never been evicted by a black person, never had my security deposit ripped off by a black landlord, never had a black landlord, never been pulled over by a black cop, never been sold a lemon by a black car salesman, never seen a black car salesman, never had a black person deny me a bank loan, never had a black person bury my movie, and I've never heard a black person say, 'We're going to eliminate ten thousand jobs here - have a nice day!'

  Michael Moore

  Movie, Jobs, Nice

  "Stupid White Men ...and Other Excuses For the State of the Nation!". Book by Michael Moore, 2001.

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• The energy of devils and angels is the same energy; it's how you use it. It's fuel. There is a saying: If you scare all your devils away, the angels will go away with them. You know, the halo and the horns are the same thing. I mean it's OK to be spiritually horny - that's what creative genius is all about. Geniuses don't have time to think about how it's going to be received... they don't have time to think whether people like it or not, is it morally right, will God like it?

  Carlos Santana

  Mean, Angel, Thinking

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• You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head.

  Steven Wright

  Depression, Nice, Mental Illness

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• A goal should scare you a little, and excite you a lot.

  Joe Vitale

  Inspirational, Goal, Littles

  Joe Vitale (2005). “The Attractor Factor: 5 Easy Steps for Creating Wealth (or Anything Else) from the Inside Out”, p.90, John Wiley & Sons

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• Psychopaths have a grandiose self-structure which demands a scornful and detached devaluation of others, in order to ward off their envy toward the good perceived in other people. He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit and his plans. He will show you a good time but you will always get the bill. He will smile and deceive you, and he will scare you with his eyes. And when he is through with you, and he will be through with you, he will desert you and take with him your innocence and your pride.

  Robert D. Hare

  Eye, Pride, Self

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• Actually I want to scare away method actors because it's a pain. It's like, 'Come on, what are you doing? It's not real. What are you doing? Oh, you're really brooding. Okay, good. Go to your trailer. I'll see you in an hour.'

  Natalie Portman

  Pain, Real, Actors

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• It's not that I'm not a horror fan, it's just that the horror scripts I've been sent have been rubbish and obvious. Because they usually are in horror films - it's just about scare factor. You're always one step ahead, you know who's going to die first, you know who's going to survive, you're going to get a jump every twenty minutes.

  Danny Dyer

  Rubbish, Scripts, Firsts

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I think what scares people about not being normal is being ostracized for not being like other people. And that's hurtful when that happens.

  Erin Davie

  Thinking, People, Hurtful

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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