Shocking Quotes - Page 18

• Pop is in a shocking state at the moment.

  Charlie Simpson

  Moments, States, Pops

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• And then I went to 'Dawson's Creek,' which is a show that was, for better or for worse, all about the language. It was a word-perfect show, which I'd never had any experience with. And it was really shocking for me. I felt really hemmed in. At the time, it wasn't my favorite working experience.

  Busy Philipps

  Perfect, Language, My Favorite

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

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• Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn’t really scare me. I’d say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don’t know what it is. Is there something there or not?

  Oren Peli

  Wall, Skins, Scare

  "'Paranormal Activity's' Oren Peli on Scares, Spielberg and 'The River's' Pricey Pilot (Q&A)". Interview with Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 2, 2012.

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• Around the time of 'The Lord of the Rings,' it was a shock to me just how big it is to be on that kind of media juggernaut. It was a big thing and the scrutiny was shocking.

  Miranda Otto

  Media, Juggernaut, Kind

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• Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines.

  Mindy Kaling

  Art, People, Laughing

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2011.

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• The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.

  Bob Kerrey

  War, Years, Ideas

  "GMA: Transcript of Bob Kerrey Interview". Interview with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com.

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• I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.

  Dakota Fanning

  Clothes, Knows

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• I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Stupid, Thinking, Owl

  Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. February 18, 2004.

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• I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.

  Carla Bruni

  Lying, Past, Thinking

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• People are motivated by the desires for privilege, for power, for profit. Those are not shocking revelations. Anyone who's had any experience in life knows these things.

  Norman Finkelstein

  People, Desire, Privilege

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• In my life, I don't wear makeup, I don't care about any of the trappings of the "feminine," or how I look in photographs. To me, it's irrelevant, which I think is really shocking to people in the industry that I'm in, because it's like, "You should always look good", but I honestly don't care. It's not important to me.

  Margaret Cho

  Makeup, Thinking, People

  "Margaret Cho Is Here, Queer, And Taking Questions About Anything". Interview with Ariane Lange, www.buzzfeed.com. January 21, 2015.

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• The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get up and go to the back of the bus.

  Uma Thurman

  One Day, Parks, Facts

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.

  John Steinbeck

  Insane, Nerves, Calm

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.92, Penguin

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• In New York that probably has more lawyers per square foot than any other state in the union, more women lawyers. I mean, it to me shocking that this can happen in 2008, but fortunately, you had a governor who was sensitive enough to this outrage that he pointed it out to the nation, and is trying to do something about it.

  Eleanor Smeal

  New York, Mean, Squares

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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• That first plunge under the shore break on a chilly fall morning. It forces a sound out of one's body that is kind of a whoo-ahhh! - shocking and refreshing all at once. You become acutely aware of your body and your surroundings, which is helpful when you're about to paddle out to sea.

  Brandon Boyd

  Morning, Fall, Sea

  "Interview with Incubus Frontman Brandon Boyd". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• [Allen] Ginsberg totally helped that out. He was the best sales person. He was the most pop. They are still shocking and relevant, especially [William] Burroughs.

  Yony Leyser

  Sales Person, Ginsberg, Pops

  Source: www.outsideleft.com

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• There are so many shocking things. Is it more shocking that there are children sold into slavery in every city in the world and right under our noses or that there are villages in Nepal where there are no children left because they have all been kidnapped for sex trafficking, or that there are generations of slaves in some countries where indentured slavery passes from generation to generation and that kids grow into adults not knowing that another world - another life - exists?

  Gillian Anderson

  Country, Sex, Children

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• To be completely honest, it's shocking to me that I keep getting the villain roles! I do not see myself as the villain and I know, growing up, I was the opposite of a villain. I would never try to be a villain to anyone - but maybe other people I grew up with feel differently about that.

  Cam Gigandet

  Growing Up, Opposites, People

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• If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Believe, Kids, Men

  Interview with Carine Roitfeld, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 18, 2011.

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• The only truly shocking thing about last Tuesday's election is that the Democrats didn't do far worse, or as badly as they deserved.

  Frank Rich

  Tuesday, Politics, Lasts

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• This is what is meant by "sacrifice", literally, the "making sacred" of an animal consumed for dinner. Yet sacrfice, because it dwells on the death, is a concept often shocking to the secular modern Western mind - to people who calmly organize daily hecatombs of beasts, and who are among the most death-dealing carnivores the world has ever seen.

  Margaret Visser

  Food, Sacrifice, Animal

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• Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast.

  Nicholson Baker

  Wikipedia, Facts, Incredibles

  Nicholson Baker (2012). “The Way the World Works”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55.

  Robert Cormier

  Book, Reading, Years

  Interview with Lyn Gardner, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2000.

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• Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

  Larry Wall

  Real, Thinking, People

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• The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.

  Dennis Lehane

  Loneliness, Warning, Lays

  Dennis Lehane (2010). “Prayers For Rain”, p.141, Hachette UK

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