Dark Places Quotes - Page 5

• Somehow that doesn't feel like a natural human thing to do, to go to those dark places, you have to kind of force yourself to do that. And comedy, it's like you're excited to get there in the morning every day.

  John C. Reilly

  Morning, Dark, Comedy

  "Interview: John C. Reilly (Talladega Nights)". Interview with Devin Faraci, trouble.city. August 2, 2006.

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• I think I had a tendency to get stuck inside my head and go to some very dark places in my mind, and get stuck there. I couldn't see a way to get out.

  Joan Osborne

  Dark, Thinking, Mind

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. March 6, 2014.

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• It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

  Neil Simon

  Writing, Dark, Giving

  Interview with Charles Flowers, bookpage.com. October 1999.

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• I'm certainly not one of those actors who remain in a dark place the entire time in order to be doing the scene. I sort of come in and out of it. It can be to the detriment of my performance sometimes!

  Matthew Rhys

  Dark, Order, Actors

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• In a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year. It's the story of a serial killer's crimes and capture, yes, but it's also a compulsively readable story of how one brave woman faces up to acts of terrible violence in order to create something good and strong in the aftermath. Quiet Dell will be compared to In Cold Blood, but Phillips offers something Capote could not: a heroine who lights up the dark places and gives us hope in our humanity.

  Stephen King

  Strong, Dark, Light

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• I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.

  Tom Green

  Dark, Important, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I grew up reading crime fiction mysteries, true crime - a lot of true crime - and it is traditionally a male dominated field from the outside, but from the inside what we know, those of us who read it, is that women buy the most crime fiction, they are by far the biggest readers of true crime, and there's a voracious appetite among women for these stories, and I know I feel it - since I was quite small I wanted to go to those dark places.

  Megan Abbott

  Reading, Dark, Fiction

  "The 'Girl' In The Title: More Than A Marketing Trend". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 22, 2016.

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  Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  "The Artist as Housewife" (1972)

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• There was a reason my first substantial role after rehab was to play a maniac whose personal story ended badly. I knew what it was like to go those dark places. I played a guy who died as a result of his abuse.

  Charlie Sheen

  Recovery, Dark, Play

  Interview with David Rensin, www.playboy.com. April 15, 2011.

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• A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

  Rebecca West

  Strong, Hate, Cutting

  Rebecca West, Jane Marcus (1982). “The Young Rebecca: Writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, New York : Viking Press

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• I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that dark place.

  Ricky Williams

  Dark, Taboo

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• he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming from them. each of the closed books was a door, and behind it stirred shadows, voices, sounds, heading toward him from a deep, dark place.

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte

  Wall, Book, Dark

  Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1996). “The Club Dumas”, Harcourt

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• We walk in dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no one may pass. We live for the One. We die for the One. -- the Ranger oath

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Dark, Bridges, May

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• When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books, and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the establishment.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Book, Dark

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.6820, Delphi Classics

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• [His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Dark, Library

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• “Hey, Adam,” I said. “I thought you'd want to know that Warren and Darryl made it out of the vampire den alive.” I sucked in my breath. “You didn't actually agree to their meeting on Marsilia's grounds?” He laughed. “No, it just sounded better than saying they made it out of Denny's alive. It might not be romantic, but it's open all night and set in the middle of a brightly lit parking lot with no dark places for skulking parties to ambush from.”

  Patricia Briggs

  Party, Dark, Night

  "Bone Crossed". Book by Patricia Briggs, February 3, 2009.

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• When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.

  William Faulkner

  Book, Dark, Light

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.169, Modern Library

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• And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.

  Joseph Conrad

  Dark, Earth, Said

  Joseph Conrad (2010). “Heart of Darkness”, p.6, Bibliolis Books

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• Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now comes from misery. We know that if someone offers to show us a film on how our meat is produced, it will be a horror film. We perhaps know more than we care to admit, keeping it down in the dark places of our memory-- disavowed. When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Memories, Dark, Science

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

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• For always in her there was a dark place full of despair and a great dividing force to make meaning because there was none.

  Anne Rice

  Dark, Despair, Dividing

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• God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is why sharing pain freely feels very much like love, and may be the same thing. (207)

  Keith Ablow

  Pain, Dark, Like Love

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• Not only do you become what you think about, but the world also becomes what you think about. Those who think that the world is a dark place are blind to the light that might illuminate their lives. Those who see the light of the world view the dark spots as merely potential light.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Dark, Thinking

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• Once you let people know anything about what you think, that's it, you're dead. Then they'll be jumping about in your mind, taking things out, holding them up to the light and killing them, yes, killing them, because thoughts are supposed to stay and grow in quiet, dark places, like butterflies in cocoons.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Butterfly, Dark, Thinking

  Helen Oyeyemi (2013). “The Icarus Girl”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Every tattoo I got with them is a mark of their friendship, and almost every time I have laughed in this dark place was because of them. I don’t want to lose them. But I feel like I have already.

  Veronica Roth

  Tattoo, Dark, Want

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• For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling

  Audre Lorde

  Beautiful, Creativity, Dark

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.36, Crossing Press

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