Intimidating Quotes - Page 11

• I was like, I can't believe I get to be in a scene with Meryl Streep [in Florence Foster Jenkins]! And then I was like, but why do I have to play Chopin? It's already going to be intimidating.

  Simon Helberg

  Believe, Play, Florence

  "Simon Helberg sharingbig screen with Meryl Streep". Interview with Nina Metz, digitaledition.chicagotribune.com.

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• It's very intimidating looking at the script and realizing that you have to say medical jargon as if you've said them a million times before, and they're just a part of your vocabulary. But that's what preparing is for, and you can't just really wing it. You've got to really know what you're doing.

  Odette Annable

  Medical, Realizing

  Source: www.ign.com

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• With the audience I write for, I want to make sure that the reader is eagerly turning every page. I want each of my books to be an absorbing reading experience, an authentic piece of literature. The worst thing that can happen is for a book to have a chilling effect on the reader, to have a kid pick it up and look at a bunch of footnotes and think, No, I'm not going to read this, it's too intimidating.

  Russell Freedman

  Book, Reading, Kids

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I don't know the reasons why something is intimidating to me or disgusting to me and I don't like feeling that way, either. I don't like it when something turns me off, on any level. So, its a matter of saying: Well, I can either sit here and reject, or I can do double-time embracing of something else just to reassure myself that I'm not against the world.

  Will Oldham

  Feelings, World, Reason

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• For me, I enjoy intimidating people and I enjoy being intimidated. It is exciting. It's cool to have an experience with someone where you challenge them, and they are afraid, and then they love you and they've grown. When that happens to me, I feel so blessed if somebody has opened my world up a little bit more.

  Ottessa Moshfegh

  Blessed, Love You, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The president sets the tone. He creates the atmosphere, and that can be enlightened, progressive, or it can be intimidating, depending on what the president's agenda is. I think the other dimension of this that I worry about is impacts overseas with friends and allies, many of whom are very, very concerned about America's position in the world and whether or not it's going to continue its leadership, which has been the prevalent condition since World War II.

  James R. Clapper

  War, Thinking, Worry

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Some guys are afraid of "fashion" even those this isn't really fashion. It's more "style". A lot of guys don't want to look like they care too much. The idea of standing in a fiting room and trying things on and saying, "How does this look?" I think maybe that experience is a little bit intimidating.

  Jack White

  Fashion, Thinking, Guy

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.

  John Green

  Writing, Love Is, Trying

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• I've always been an admirer of women who walk the line of being very feminine and powerful at the same time. That has always been my archetype because too many powerful women, I fend intimidating and frightening, and I never want to scare anybody. I want to be warm and cuddly and yet, powerful at the same time.

  Doreen Virtue

  Powerful, Scare, Lines

  "Doreen Virtue: the oil spill". Interview with Susan Gregg, www.beliefnet.com.

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• My father's songs don't intimidate me; my father's songs are my songs. My songs are his songs. There's no intimidation.

  Ziggy Marley

  Song, Father, Intimidation

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

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• I am not intimidating. I am a woman's woman. I love hanging out with women. And people are really inspired by this show.

  Lucy Lawless

  People, Inspired, Shows

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• Things are so scary and intimidating with AIDS and the right wing that people are looking for somebody to just give them safe harbors.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Wings, People, Giving

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• I think that most great artists who are extremely known, as I am, would intimidate a lot of people. I don't want to do that to people, but I know I do.

  Ray Charles

  Thinking, Artist, People

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I always wished my dad was there to intimidate my boyfriends or something. It's supposed to be your dad giving your guys friends the stink-eye for sneaking beer through your house, not your mom.

  Iliza Shlesinger

  Mom, Dad, Eye

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• I'm not a big guy. I'm not a menacing guy. I'm not an intimidating guy. I may look that way, but just spend two seconds talking to me, and you know that's not who I am - not as a person, as a character. It's not who I intend to be.

  Dave Bautista

  Character, Who I Am, Talking

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

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• Jay was intimidating to the point where I was totally intimidated before I even got to the booth. But I was like, this is going to be a test of my mettle. In the South, I'm regarded as the guy who, quote unquote, out-rapped Jay-Z.

  Bun B

  Guy, Tests, Mettle

  Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.believermag.com. June 2006.

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• Horse racing is really much more intimidating than anything having to do with literature. When I had horses at the racetrack, I would wake up in terror in a way that I would never wake up while working on a novel.

  Jane Smiley

  Horse, Racing, Wake Up

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• Everything I give, pretty much, is public. Not every donor wants to - or is willing to get the kind of abuse and attacks that we do, or death threats, so they're not willing to have their names out. I think the other side is pushing for that because they want to intimidate people so they won't oppose it.

  Charles Koch

  Thinking, Names, People

  Source: freebeacon.com

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• The only thing intimidating about Cube is that he's the father of gangsta' rap. You just worry about getting your lines right, or he might shoot you.

  Terry Crews

  Father, Rap, Gangsta

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Angels do not intend to intimidate or scare, but their overwhelming glory and being will stun us into sudden contact with what is far beyond us.

  Scot McKnight

  Angel, Scare, Glory

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Being a better songwriter, that's top of the list because I think that is a very intimidating, difficult task. I really admire people that just continue to write and get stronger.

  Morgan James

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• Anna Wintour has a reputation - she can be very intimidating - but that day [Valentino show] she was just smiling and laughing. That was my first time meeting her, and she seemed like she was having a great time. Everybody was enjoying themselves.

  Owen Wilson

  Laughing, Firsts, Reputation

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I often say time is malleable, but the reception of an artwork is malleable too. When the culture changes, the view and the way you see that work, your perspective, changes. It's something that you can't control. It's sort of daunting and intimidating, but at the same time very fascinating, extremely fascinating.

  Sanford Biggers

  Views, Perspective, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It is a huge amount of pressure playing someone like Valerie Plame-Wilson. First of all who she is and what she's done is wildly intimidating and impressive. It is just scary to take on that responsibility, and you want to honor her story, an incredible story that affected us all. She is often doing things that were confusing to me, like her sexual prowess. I think that she is in a lot of pain and she has been really badly wounded along the way. She doesn't hold men in the highest regard... not just men but people.

  Naomi Watts

  Pain, Responsibility, Men

  Source: www.fanbolt.com

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• I feel so excited for what's happening in fashion now in general because it's really inspiring for women to create a look and have fun with makeup again. I think it's intimidating sometimes when you go to a department store and you're like, " Oh my god I love those colors, but what do I do with them"?

  Gucci Westman

  Fashion, Fun, Makeup

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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