Terrified Quotes - Page 18

• I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me.

  Dylan McDermott

  War, Vietnam, Ominous

  "Dylan McDermott: Dylan Unplugged". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. September 1, 2000.

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• We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of young people who are terrified of silence, of being alone with their own thoughts.

  Eda LeShan

  Children, People, Silence

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• And y'know what they decided the number one threat was? The destructive and disruptive capability of a small group. That's what they're worried about most... they're terrified of a small group with a committed goal.

  Brad Meltzer

  Fear, Numbers, Goal

  Brad Meltzer (2011). “The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1”, p.291, Hachette UK

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• When I was in that danger...I felt like I was shaken awake...after everything she made me feel...I made a decision and went to sleep. Do you know what that's like - trying to go to sleep, and lose yourself in the hopes of burying the worst fears in your life?...I wasn't in love with the past. I was terrified of my own future.

  Brad Meltzer

  Fear, Sleep, Past

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• I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

  Teresa of Avila

  Fear, People, Devil

  St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• My phobias worsen as I get older. I'm scared of flying, driving. I'm terrified of sharks. I'm a germaphobe. But I try to face my fears; I do. Well, most of them.

  Eli Roth

  Sharks, Flying, Trying

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• Some men live their lives terrified. Terrified of the night and all that is dark. I will live my life eternally in fear of the light of day.

  Barnabas

  Dark, Night, Men

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• Liberty is never safer than when politicans are terrified.

  Ted Cruz

  Liberty, Politics

  "Ted Cruz woos Republicans in South Florida". www.sun-sentinel.com. February 22, 2014.

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• I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.

  Natalia Kills

  Brave Face, Faces, Trapped

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• Every now and then you think about your life, what you would like to be, you start at Number 1 and you go down to 100. And down at the bottom, 100, was - Stage. Go figure. That would be the last thing. It terrified me, man. But I had to do it.

  Alan Vega

  Men, Thinking, Numbers

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• I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'

  Channing Tatum

  Careers, Ideas, People

  "Channing Tatum Interview DEAR JOHN, Plus Info on Dito Montiel’s SON OF NO ONE and THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 31, 2010.

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• The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.

  Britt Ekland

  Ideas, Theatre, Stage

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• You know, I read the papers and I watch the news a lot. I watch 'Dateline' and '48 Hours'. And I think we have a tendency to become terrified of one another, thinking that there is a serial killer that is on either side of you.

  Johnny Galecki

  Thinking, Serial Killer, Killers

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• I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.

  Jared Padalecki

  Thinking, Comedy, Thrilling

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• I'm a fan of horrors. I love the ones that make you jump. My girlfriend hates it. I've been dating her for one-and-a-half years and I'm crazy about her, but she's terrified of horror films. Not the cute 'Will you hold me?' way, but she's weeping. With 'House of Wax,' we'll be sleeping and I'll go to the bathroom and she's sitting up waiting for me.

  Jared Padalecki

  Cute, Girlfriend, Hate

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• I'm terrified of being too famous. What I'm really afraid of is that the audiences will go into the theater and not be able to forget that it's me, that fame will stand in the way of my acting. I want to keep being able to change into different shapes and different personalities.

  Noomi Rapace

  Personality, Acting, Different

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• I was terrified of vault, like literally I hated it. I had a fear of running as fast as I could at a solid object, which is I think a normal fear to have because nobody would really want to do that. Once I got over the fear of running into the table I just kind of relaxed and now it's like autopilot. I love it.

  Alicia Sacramone

  Running, Thinking, Vaults

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• No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.

  Dan Simmons

  Writing, Inspired

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• Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Men, Sexuality

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• Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it, and we live in a society that says they don't.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Sexuality

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• Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Japan, People, Culture

  "How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Revisited". Washington Post Online Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 23, 2006.

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• I have myself always been terrified of plagiarism - of being accused of it, that is. Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at disguising our robberies. The reason writers are such slow readers is that we are ceaselessly searching for things we can steal and then pass off as our own: a natty bit of syntax, a seamless transition, a metaphor that jumps to its target like an arrow shot from an aluminum crossbow.

  Joseph Epstein

  Clever, Writing, Arrows

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• I am terrified of sharks, so I don't surf!

  Janel Parrish

  Sharks, Surf

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I actually had an experience where I thought somebody was breaking into my house. That's got to be the most terrified I've ever been in my life. I don't know if that's saying much. The fear, especially as a female in a house by yourself, was horrible.

  Hayden Panettiere

  House, Female, Horrible

  "Emma Roberts and Hayden Panettiere Interview SCREAM 4". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 12, 2011.

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• There are roles that are terrifying because they're large or you may feel that they're out of your line, but I'm never terrified once the actual work begins. Once you begin rehearsal, then it's small building blocks. It's solving little problems one at a time.

  Michael Emerson

  Block, Roles, Lines

  "Actor Michael Emerson". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 16, 2012.

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