Awful Quotes - Page 7

• I really romanticized being pregnant. Then I realized, this is awful!

  Marcia Cross

  Being Pregnant, I Realized, Pregnant

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• I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

  David Cassidy

  People, Three, Biographies

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• Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

  Clara Bow

  Fear, Kids, I Can

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• To be the object of somebody's obsession is a really awful feeling when you can't return it.

  Tippi Hedren

  Feelings, Return, Obsession

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It was a mystery to me. To that awful black-and-white farm, with that aunt who was dressed badly, with smelly farm animals around when she could live with winged monkeys and magic shoes and gay lions. I didn't get it.

  John Waters

  Gay, Black And White, Animal

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• But, Tarantino has seen all of my movies. He's seen my good stuff, he's seen my bad stuff, he's seen the ones I directed, he's read my autobiography. There's an awful lot of things he knows about me, all of which I think had something to do with his casting.

  David Carradine

  Thinking, Stuff, Casting

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• There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

  Ian Hislop

  News, Television, Sticks

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• I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow.

  Robbie Williams

  Clothes, House, Treasure

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.

  Jenny Holzer

  Yield, Lovely, Attention

  "Jenny Holzer: drawn to the dark side". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2012.

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• I sound awful saying it but I think it can be like that. I see a lot of people in unstimulating relationships. And not just boyfriend-girlfriend relationships. They find themselves in stagnant friendships. If people were a little less scared [of ending things] they'd get more out of life… You meet the right person at the right time and they fulfil a certain something in your life. You fulfil something in theirs. But there's a time limit to that. Unless you choose to be bloody good company for the rest of your life, do you know what I mean?

  Laura Marling

  Girlfriend, Mean, Thinking

  "Laura Marling: 'Americans - they're just a lot more poetic'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2013.

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• I wanted to work towards the four majors and the Davis Cup. I know to a lot of people it may not mean too much, but to me (Davis Cup) means an awful lot.

  Lleyton Hewitt

  Mean, People, Four

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• Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level. Many of my male colleagues, when they go to the House floor, you know, they've got some pie chart or graph behind them and they're talking about trillions of dollars and how, you know, the debt is awful and, you know, we all agree with that we need our male colleagues to understand that if you can bring it down to a woman's level and what everything that she is balancing in her life - that's the way to go.

  Renee Ellmers

  Men, Talking, Pie

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• Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful.

  Thom Yorke

  Facts, Faces, Shots

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• Other than my hundreds of arrests I really don't have that much experience with the law. While the majority of people aren't corrupt, there certainly is an awful lot of corruption in this country.

  James Patterson

  Country, Law, People

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• I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.

  Warren Christopher

  Lost Friendship, Close Friends, Cases

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• Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

  Ann Patchett

  Writing, World, Miserable

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.60, A&C Black

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• People have to be educated and they have to stick to it. If people lose that respect, an awful lot is lost

  Stephen Breyer

  People, Sticks, Lost

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• Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beautiful, Sides, Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.251, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• There's an awful lot of blood around that water is thicker than.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Family, Blood, Water

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.38, BookBaby

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• The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.

  Mariel Hemingway

  Reality, Needs, Mental Illness

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• War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War is wretched beyond description and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. Whatever is won in war, it is loss the veteran remembers.

  John McCain

  War, Loss, Reality

  "Mark Shields: A much different war for a changed nation", www.cnn.com. September 16, 2002.

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• O Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry each a future Ghost within him; but are, in very deed, Ghosts!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Heaven

  "Sartor Resartus: The Historian".

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• The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Fear, Ideas

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• I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.

  Nigella Lawson

  Happiness, Thinking, May

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• When I was younger, my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working, which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old, so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked, anyway - and I started to do other things.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Baby, Self Worth, Years

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