Scare Quotes - Page 14

• But death doesn't scare me. To know exactly when I might expect it, up close and in my face, would actually be a comfort. Because to tell the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Mean, Dying, Comfort

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• I’m so sorry to disappoint you,” she said, breathing hard. “But it would take far more than that to scare me.” A quick flex of his arms, and their bodies collided. And he whispered, just as his mouth fell on hers, “God, I was hoping you’d say that.

  Tessa Dare

  Sorry, Breathing, Mouths

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• Colin stared at the officer. “Thorne, you scare me. I’m not ashamed to say it.

  Tessa Dare

  Ashamed, Officers

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• Have you ever been approached by a grim-looking man, carrying a naked sword with a blade about ten miles long in his hand, in the middle of the night, beneath the stars on the shores of Lake Michigan? If you have, seek professional help. If you have not, then believe you me, it can scare the bejeezus out of you.

  Jim Butcher

  Stars, Believe, Night

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.79, Penguin Group

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• I didn't have to wear a mask on Halloween to scare people, so I didn't need one to cover my face on the field!

  Tommy McDonald

  Halloween, People, Needs

  Interview with Ron Pasceri, bleacherreport.com. March 20, 2012.

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• With a horror movie most of the actual jumps and scares are made in the edit. It's often not very scary on set and then you watch the film and suddenly it's very scary because the way the jump scares fit together building up the suspense in the audience because it's making them jump when they're least expecting it.

  Jeremy Irvine

  Building Up, Scary, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn't understand.

  Jamie Dornan

  Challenges, Roles, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• Supporting a family and financial necessity aside, what I want is to read it and just have that feeling in your chest that you know you need to do it and you understand how you could get there, even if it scares you.

  Shannyn Sossamon

  Feelings, Needs, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• If the project piques my interest and scares me a little bit, then it's got me hooked.

  Ray Stevenson

  Pique, Littles, Projects

  Source: collider.com

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• Cleaning me up is just a preliminary step to determining my new look. With my acid-damaged hair, sunburned skin, and ugly scars, the prep team has to make me pretty and then damage, burn, and scare me in a more attractive way.

  Suzanne Collins

  Team, Hair, Skins

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.59, Scholastic Inc.

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• No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But what then ... what? What would my life be like on a daily basis? Most of it has been consumed with the acquisition of food. Take that away and I'm not really sure who I am, what my identity is. The idea scares me some.

  Suzanne Collins

  Who I Am, Ideas, Life Is Like

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.407, Scholastic Inc.

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• Not becoming 'something' scares me the most. I just want to be remembered for something great.

  Tony Harrison

  Want, Becoming, Remembered

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• The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly

  Cressida Cowell

  Fear, Past, Thinking

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• It's one of my biggest memories of my father reading. I had pneumonia, remember, but I was a little better now, and madly caught up in the book, and one thing you know when you're ten is that, no matter what, there's gonna be a happy ending. They can sweat all they want to scare you, the authors, but back of it all you know, you just have no doubt, that in the long run justice is going to win out.

  William Goldman

  Running, Memories, Father

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.149, A&C Black

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• If you only take parts that are offered to you, you end up playing the same roles over and over again. I think it's important to keep auditioning. I think it's important to scare yourself; to take parts that are outside of your comfort zone.

  Jared Harris

  Thinking, Important, Comfort

  Source: collider.com

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• I love "Frosty the Snowman." My family and I like to go on a sleigh ride with a two-horse sleigh in Aspen, so we all scream different songs at the top of our lungs. I hope it doesn't scare the horses.

  Mariah Carey

  Song, Horse, Two

  "Mariah Carey on Her New MAC Lipstick and How She Lives Every Day Like It's a Holiday". Interview with Glam Belleza Latina, www.glamour.com. November 23, 2015.

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• There's something that scares me. It's the way media in the United States presents the rest of the world. I feel like people in America are getting a completely different picture of what's going on in other countries than what is reality.

  Rula Jebreal

  Country, Reality, Media

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.

  Martin Mull

  Caught, Folks, Folk Music

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• A light was on in the kitchen. His mother sat at the kitchen table, as still as a statue. Her hands were clasped together, and she stared fixatedly at a small stain on the tablecloth. Gregor remembered seeing her that way so many nights after his dad had disappeared. He didn't know what to say. He didn't want to scare her or shock her or ever give her any more pain. So, he stepped into the light of the kitchen and said the one thing he knew she wanted to hear most in the world. "Hey, Mom. We're home.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mom, Mother, Pain

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• Sometimes it's just silent...No sound at all. 'Does that scare you?' Chad nods. 'Why?' asks his father. 'It's like something's waiting.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Father, Waiting, Sound

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• The scares are the easier part of scary movies. The hard part of scary movies is what leads up to the scares.

  Jason Blum

  Scary, Easier, Hard

  Source: collider.com

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• To me it's not so much that the movies are slow-paced as much as they are about spending time building a relationship between the audience and the characters. If you don't spend an adequate amount of time doing this, then how can you expect to scare anyone?

  Ti West

  Character, Adequate, Building

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films. I remember being a teenager, and people getting out like Halloween [1978] or Saw [2004], and watching them, and I'd kind of just stare at the television logo and blur my eyes and pretend I was watching but I wasn't because I just found that I would take the movie home with me. I can scare myself like a pro.

  Imogen Poots

  Halloween, Teenager, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The global warming scare has provided a field day for politicians and others who wish to control our lives. After all, only the imagination limits the kind of laws and restrictions that can be written in the name of saving the planet.

  Walter E. Williams

  Names, Law, Imagination

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• You love the way it makes me feel when I can't catch my breath Like walkin' on a high wire, Lord, it scares me half to death You're always high above me and I'm always fallin' down Our loves just a circus baby, and I'm just the clown

  Conway Twitty

  Baby, Wire, Half

  Song: The Clown, Album: Southern Comfort, 1982

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