Shock Quotes - Page 10

• I've been on shows that go for shock value

  Daphne Zuniga

  Shock Value, Shows, Values

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• There are a few critics overseas, and occasionally a critic will write an astute analysis of the movie. There is value in reading critics that actually have something intelligent to say, but the journalistic community lives in a world of sound bites and literary commerce: selling newspapers, selling books, and they do that simply by trashing things. They don't criticize or analyze them. They simply trash them for the sake of a headline, or to shock people to get them to buy whatever it is they're selling.

  George Lucas

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

  Thomas Gibson

  Shows, Show Business

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Someone like me shouldnt be diagnosed with breast cancer, thats what was going through my mind. I wasnt thinking about a diagnosis. I was just doing what I was supposed to do, which was staying on top of my mammograms. It was a shock.

  Sheryl Crow

  Cancer, Thinking, Mind

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• I've been offered nymphomaniacs, kleptomaniacs, pyromaniacs, homicidal maniacs and just plain maniacs. I think producers felt that after playing a long series of noble and admirable characters there would be quite a lot of shock value in seeing me play something altogether different. But I prefer upbeat stories that send people out of the theater feeling better than they did coming in. It's my cup of tea.

  Greer Garson

  Character, Feel Better, Thinking

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

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• My plan is to shock people with what I can do, because I've got a few sides to me that I've never used on screen.

  Lucy Lawless

  People, Sides, Used

  "Saturday interview: Lucy Lawless - Xena the Ecowarrior" by Susanna Rustin, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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• I don't try to be completely calculating in everything I say and do, but there's no way I'm going to talk. There's no reason to. And that's why I'm such a boring interview, because I don't go for the shock value, or smartass answers.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Trying, Answers, Way

  "Chris O'Donnell: Whatever Blows Your Hair Back". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. March 1, 1996.

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• What shocks me is that so many people leave care and become homeless, and when you're homeless you get into crime, prostitution and drugs, and it is a vicious circle. That's what we need to change.

  Samantha Morton

  Circles, People, Drug

  "Actor Morton tells of teenage criminal record" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.

  Tara Lipinski

  Believe, Champion, Imagine

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am not well educated or bright enough to be politically clued in, but I hope in the film that I'm going to shock a few people, win a lot of people over.

  John Lone

  Winning, People, Clue

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• The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.

  Polly Bergen

  Running, Years, Old Friends

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• I fail to see the issue that will shock the people of this great country of ours into some decisive action.

  Graham Nash

  Country, Issues, People

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• Going gray is like ejaculating: you know it can happen prematurely, but when it does it comes as a total shock.

  Anderson Cooper

  Doe, Gray, Happens

  Buography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Considering the way the prebiotic soup is referred to in so many discussions of the origin of life as an already established reality, it comes as something of a shock to realize that there is absolutely no positive evidence for its existence.

  Michael Denton

  Reality, Origin Of Life, Soup

  Michael Denton (2002). “Evolution: A Theory in Crisis”, Adler & Adler Pub

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• It's good to shock. It's not good to always be careful. It's good to disturb a little.

  Ellen von Unwerth

  Littles, Be Careful, Careful

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• Everything that's rock n roll is ever meant to be is happening now. I need to get over the shock that that thing is actually happening and that thousands of millions of people around the world are watching.

  Bob Geldof

  Rocks, People, Needs

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• What a shock that a guy who makes $2 million a week behaves exactly like I would with $2 million a week. As far as I’m concerned, if you make $2 million a week and you don’t have a hooker in your hotel room, you’re creepy and I don’t trust you. And I don’t do drugs at all, so for me it would just be more prostitutes. That’s how they would find me. I would be dead on the floor, flattened by a pile of prostitutes. I’d look like a cat in a hoarders’ house.

  Jim Norton

  Cat, House, Guy

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• Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When a child is told, for the first time in his life, that a person he has known is dead, although he does not disbelieve it, he may well fail to comprehend it and later ask--perhaps more than once--where the dead person is and when he is coming back.

  Richard Adams

  Children, Pain, Doe

  Richard Adams (2014). “Watership Down”, p.187, Oneworld Publications

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• Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.

  Douglas Adams

  Sister, Time, Brother

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.706, Pan Macmillan

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• Death and its associates, after the initial shock, produce callousness.

  R.K. Narayan

  Produce, Initials, Associates

  R. K. Narayan (2009). “Swami and Friends, The Bachelor of Arts, The Dark Room, The English Teacher”, p.517, Everyman's Library

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• The attitude of the American public toward the external projection of American power has been much more ambivalent. The public supported America's engagement in World War II largely because of the shock effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Attitude, War, America

  "The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives". Book by Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1997.

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• Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.

  Herman Melville

  Running, Hands, Circles

  "Hawthorne and His Mosses" (1850)

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• A great deal has been written about the forthrightness of the moderns shocking the Victorians, but there is no shock like the one which the forthrightness of the Victorians can give a modern.

  Margery Allingham

  Giving, Modern, Deals

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• You would think the fury of aerial bombardment
  would rouse God to relent; the infinite spaces
  Are still silent. He looks on shock-pried faces.
  History, even, does not know what is meant.

  Richard Eberhart

  Thinking, Space, Doe

  1951 'The Fury of Aerial Bombardment'.

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• I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher In the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf out of their reach.

  J. D. Salinger

  Children, Book, My Best Friend

  "The Twentieth Century". Book by Caroline Farrar Ware, p. 429, 1972.

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