Shock Quotes - Page 28

• "There is no analysis here," the most brutal of them wrote. Now I wonder if my papers lacked critical thought, or if it was really more about my inability/refusal to write in the convoluted style that they wanted me to. I remember the initial shock upon reading my peers' papers. I seriously could not understand them, and I couldn't understand why the writing had to be so unclear in order to be considered smart.

  Mary J. Miller

  Smart, Reading, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Obviously, it was a big life change for me and quite a shock to suddenly have these songs I'd written in my bedroom as a far-too-intense teenager all over the airwaves and see my face on buses, especially in a small country like New Zealand, but at the same time it was such a thrill and an honour knowing that my music was reaching people.

  Brooke Fraser

  Country, Song, Life Changing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• [Ending] is partly drawn from a desire to shock the audience, to brutally de-romanticize what many Americans think is happening overseas. And partly drawn from my own childhood: violence and a loss of innocence. But keep in mind that, as a writer, I'm both the criminal and the victim. I'm not trying to get out of anything easy.

  Said Sayrafiezadeh

  Loss, Thinking, Childhood

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Most of the reasons for late-term abortions have to do with severe fetal deformities, but when I found out that dwarfism was also a reason for late-term abortions that was tough. I did a book on dwarfs and know a lot of them, and that was a shock. That's a decision I could not feel comfortable with.

  John H Richardson

  Book, Abortion, Decision

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• I don't really think it comes as a shock to every writer if somebody in their family is mad at them. Yes, it's very upsetting. But it's inherent in the process of trying to make sense of one's life, which is what I think is perhaps at the bottom of writing at all.

  Anne Roiphe

  Writing, Thinking, Mad

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For me, noise is not something I use to shock, or because it's funny, or weird, or whatever. I use it because I find it beautiful.

  Christian Fennesz

  Beautiful, Use, Noise

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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• The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very similar to what the glam-rockers, particularly Bowie and Bryan Ferry, were attacking in the earnestness of '60s culture. Trying to shock, but with wit, cleverness, and homosexuality.

  Todd Haynes

  Ideas, Trying, Culture

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My job - and it's really true - is that it's constantly evolving and changing. When I was doing the Chet Baker movie I was obsessed with playing the trumpet, and to my absolute shock I haven't picked the trumpet up since we wrapped. It was so much work. I thought I was going to keep playing the rest of my life, 'cause it was fun, it's just a lot of work. And it's a really unique job that exposes you to a lot.

  Ethan Hawke

  Jobs, Fun, Unique

  "Ethan Hawke Talks Regression". Interview with Josh Lasser, www.ign.com. February 4, 2016.

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• For my family and Howard's partner, who is like family, for 10 years we were in a state of shock. It takes time to appreciate fully what was going on then. That's connected because post-9/11 New York is so completely different from the way it was and the counterculture movement going on before then was so remarkable; I think people are appreciating it a lot more now.

  Aaron Brookner

  New York, Thinking, Years

  "William Burroughs Documentary: Howard Brookner’s Movie Re-Released After Decades Out Of Print". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• I have a feeling a lot of artists' work got lost [because of AIDS]. Howard was fortunate because his family and friends supported him, but a chilling thing I remember was these guys at St. Vincent's [Hospital] who would call out for someone to listen to them, just for a moment. They were dying alone. Who knows what happened to their work? It's been a process to follow the thread to find out everything Howard did. It's getting over that shock.

  Aaron Brookner

  Artist, Dying Alone, Guy

  "William Burroughs Documentary: Howard Brookner’s Movie Re-Released After Decades Out Of Print". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 6, 2017.

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• But my point is that 'the death of God' is not something like the Battle of Waterloo or Magna Charta. It's not a historic event of that kind. For many people it hasn't happened yet. Others - to recur to an earlier question - are still in the phase of intense shock.

  George Pattison

  People, Battle, Events

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• I have a feeling there is no ideal situation, unless she could go back in time and be 22 again. I think some of it is just kind of the shock of realizing that you're approaching middle age, or that you are middle-aged and kind of coming to terms with that in whatever incremental ways.

  Amanda Peet

  Thinking, Feelings, Age

  "Amanda Peet and Steve Zissis discuss what the second season holds for Togetherness". Interview with Gwen Ihnat, www.avclub.com. February 21, 2016.

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• I was in a state of shock, because I have never seen the pope talk about something as unimportant as Donald Trump. OK? And I was like, the pope is talking about me? This can't be happening. And then I said, is it good or bad? They said it's bad.

  Donald Trump

  Talking, Pope, States

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• You can look at a finale as chance to make an impact or a statement, to shock people or shoot a big cannon and make a loud noise.

  Alex Hirsch

  Impact, People, Looks

  "'See you next summer': Alex Hirsch says goodbye to Gravity Falls". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. February 19, 2016.

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• Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in the music industry.

  Nina Nesbitt

  Moving, People, London

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.

  George Meyer

  Arbitrary, Cruelty, Reader

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• We need to use economic instruments such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, tax and dividend and whatever else to help incentivize behavior that will move us to a post-carbon, post-animal agriculture world, and make our societies more resilient to the shocks that are already baked into the system. But that doesn't make climate change an "economic issue."

  Dale Jamieson

  Moving, Animal, Agriculture

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Going there [Japan] in the early 80s was quite a culture shock. I think the bombardment of Shinjuku and all that would have filtered through, which certainly informed things we later filmed.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Thinking, Japan, Culture

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• I was like, "Oh my god, I hope you're secretly grossed out about everything that [Donald] Trump has been doing." But why is it such a shock to anybody? He's said so many things that show who he is and how ignorant he is from the beginning.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Ignorant, Said, Trump

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.

  Michael Snow

  Names, Littles, Irritated

  Source: www.realityravings.com

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• What are a genuine pain in the ass are all the misconceptions and outright lies. I read somewhere that in 2004 I was homeless in Seattle and drinking heavily, which came as a shock since I've never been homeless and haven't had a drink since 1982. I've also heard SEVERAL times that I'm a card-carrying member of several white-supremacist groups, when the last group I belonged to was the Boy Scouts.

  Jim Goad

  Pain, Lying, Drinking

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• The criticism that has most consistently bothered me is the allegation that I'm a schlockmeister whose only objective is to shock people.

  Jim Goad

  People, Criticism, Allegations

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• The shock of the new after the biggest upset in American political history, this unforgettable, once unimaginable image Donald Trump side by side with President Obama in the Oval Office.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Office, Political, Upset

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It is very hard now to shock people into thinking about government regulation and the extent of government involvement in life.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thinking, Government, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm not an economist, and I'm not a proponent of shock therapy.

  Diane Kochilas

  Shock Therapy, Economist, Therapy

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