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• We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier?

  Diane Ackerman

  Heart, Thinking, Knives

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Natural History of Love: Author of the National Bestseller A Natural History of the Senses”, p.20, Vintage

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• I love playing real people. It's a huge challenge and responsibility which I take on board and which I relish. It also scares me to death. Give me a totally fictional character and I don't have the same sort of responsibility. If, though, I play Sigmund Freud or Robert Maxwell or whoever then there is a responsibility.

  David Suchet

  Real, Character, Responsibility

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation. It dies with the body, which is why we are so afraid of death. Death scares the hell out of who you think you are, especially if you think you are this body.

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  Ram Dass

  Thinking, Ego, Body

  Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.65, Sounds True

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• As I say, there's something that scares the hell out of me but it really makes me work hard in losing myself. I'm not really interested in me as an actor or being a personality player, or a Hollywood star. What's given to me is to become different people and to find the truth of that. That is really what I do.

  David Suchet

  Stars, Hard Work, Player

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I love horror films, but it's more than an adrenaline rush for me. I love them because I know they scare me. It's kind of like I go on roller coasters, but I'm terrified of roller coasters, sort of thing.

  Emily Browning

  Goes On, Kind, Horror

  "Exclusive: Emily Browning Takes Us Into the Uninvited". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 27, 2009.

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• One thing I would like to do, as the director, I would really like to shoot the movie widescreen, 2.35:1, which we haven't done in any of the movies yet and I think that would really provide another opportunity for scares and suspense, particularly because since Chucky, our villain, is only two feet tall, it makes sense to define the space horizontally rather than vertically. I think that will take it to another level.

  David Kirschner

  Opportunity, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Horror movie is a great date movie. For dates... maybe grab on to the guy. I just think people love a good scare.

  Tara Reid

  Thinking, People, Guy

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Bravery

  Seth Godin (2007). “The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)”, p.66, Penguin

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• I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.

  Peter Cameron

  Thinking, People, Important

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.159, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.

  Anna Quindlen

  Life, Opportunity, Starting Over

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• To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends.

  John Ashcroft

  America, Giving, People

  "Ashcroft: Critics of new terror measures undermine effort", December 7, 2001.

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• When the press writes scare stories about the global labor supply draining jobs from rich to poor places, the story is usually presented as a "race to the bottom" simply in terms of wages. Capitalism supposedly looks for labor wherever labor is cheapest. This story is half wrong. A kind of cultural selection is also at work, so that jobs leave high-wage countries like the United States and Germany, but migrate to low-wage economies with skilled, sometimes overqualified workers.

  Richard Sennett

  Country, Jobs, Writing

  Richard Sennett (2007). “The Culture of the New Capitalism”, p.87, Yale University Press

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• Christianity isn't dead. It still has the capacity to scare people. It still gives people the creeps, which means there is still some power behind the religion, as sort of watered down as it can be.

  Tucker Carlson

  Mean, People, Giving

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 6, 2005.

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• New white people, you can't scare these white people, I tried.

  Dave Chappelle

  Funny, Humor, White

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• Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Thinking, Mediocrity, Hell

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• Many people think there's nothing they can do to change their karma - it's preordained so why bother trying to change their situation? This is what scares people. These folks think that to accept the reality of karma one must be passive. It simply isn't true. Karma is active. We can - in the blink of an eye - make decisions that will shape our futures and transform the parts of our lives that are causing us unhappiness.

  Mary T Browne

  Karma, Eye, Reality

  Mary T. Browne (2013). “The Power of Karma: How to Understand Your Past and Shape Your Future”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• I'm really quite hard to scare so it was about mining times when I have jumped, and what creeps me out.

  Susan Hill

  Creeps, Hard, Mining

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I am starting to get tired of relying on words. They are full of meaning, yes, but they lack sensation. Writing to her is not the same as seeing her face as she listens. hearing back from her is not the same as hearing her voice. I have always been grateful for technology, but now it feels as if there's a little hitch of separation woven into any digital interaction. I want to be there, and this scares me. All my usual disconnected comforts are bieng taken away, now that I see the greater comfort of presence.

  David Levithan

  Grateful, Taken, Writing

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.131, Egmont UK

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• The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

  Wes Craven

  Halloween, Monsters, Firsts

  "Wes Craven, Scream and Nightmare on Elm Street Director, Dies at 76" by Matt Patches, www.esquire.com. August 31, 2015.

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• My New Year's Eve is always 2 July, the night before my birthday. That's the night I make my resolutions. And this year scares the life out of me, because no matter how successful, how good things appear, there is always a deep core of failure within me, although I am trying to deal with it. My biggest fear, this coming year, is that I will be waking up alone. It makes me wonder how many bodies will be fished out of the Thames, how many decaying corpses will be found in one-room flats. I'm just being realistic.

  Tracey Emin

  New Year, Successful, Night

  Tracey Emin (2013). “Strangeland”, p.102, Hachette UK

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• The thing that scares me is that some part of me understands where they're coming from. They took everything from us, you know? Why shouldn’t we be able to take it back if we have the power to?

  Alexandra Bracken

  Able, Ifs, Knows

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• Now I'm hot and bothered, and wondering why my new neighbor isn't putting the moves on me." "Maybe he doesn't want to push you too far, too fast and scare you off." Gideon's eyes glittered in the light of the television. "Is that so?" He nuzzled his nose against my temple. "If he has half a brain, he'd know not to let you get away." Oh... "Maybe I should make the first move," I whispered, wrapping my fingers around his wrist. "But what if he thinks I'm too easy?" "He'll be too busy thinking he's damned luck.

  Sylvia Day

  Moving, Eye, Thinking

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.571, Penguin

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• My feet are always cold. I'm a vampire," he said in a teasing voice, almost as if he was trying to chase away Holiday's somberness. "And if I remember correctly, you complained about that last night." He slowed down and slipped his arm around Holiday. "Marrying you doesn't scare me a bit. It's the best thing that could ever happen to me. I'd never run out on you. I'll be the first one to the church.

  C.C. Hunter

  Running, Holiday, Night

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• Hello Rush," she said, breaking the silence. The sound of her voice almost sent me to my knees. God, I'd missed her voice. "Blaire," I managed to say, terrified that I'd scare her away just by speaking.

  Abbi Glines

  Voice, Silence, Sound

  Abbi Glines (2014). “Never Too Far: A Rosemary Beach Novel”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• Freak is easily spooked. Flesh-eating monsters tend to scare him away. So do fireworks, clowns, and the smell of Sadie's weird British Ribena drink. (Can't blame him on that last one. Sadie grew up in London and developed some pretty strange tastes.

  Rick Riordan

  Flesh Eating, Smell, Monsters

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