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• Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.

  Susan Sontag

  Dream, Witty, World

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.46, Macmillan

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• I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

  Jung Chang

  West, Firsts, Merit

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• People who are afraid to go to horror movies are generally afraid their whole lives. People say to me, 'Do you have nightmares?' I never have nightmares! And I go to movies and see the most bizarre things in the world, and go... Wow that is really sick, how fun is that! And I don't have to carry it around. I think that's very healthy.

  Stan Winston

  Fun, Thinking, Sick

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

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• Armed conflict between nations is a nightmare to me; but if I were convinced that any nation had made up its mind to dominate the world by fear of its force, I should feel that it must be resisted.

  Neville Chamberlain

  Mind, World, Conflict

  "Neville Chamberlain". Book by Keith Feiling, 1946.

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• Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger.

  Gloria Naylor

  Home, Knowing, Long

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• To be on an island inhabited by artificial ghosts was the most unbearable of nightmares,- to be in love with one of those images was worse than being in love with a ghost (perhaps we always want the person we love to have the existenceof a ghost).

  Adolfo Bioy Casares

  Being In Love, Islands, Want

  Adolfo Bioy Casares, Ruth L. C. Simms (2003). “The invention of Morel”, New York Review of Books

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• I'll be going to bed having nightmares of Sachin just running down the wicket and belting me back over the head for six. He was unstoppable. I don't think anyone, apart from Don Bradman, is in the same class as Sachin Tendulkar. He is just an amazing player.

  Shane Warne

  Running, Thinking, Player

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• You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

  Megan Chance

  Running, Feelings, Madness

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• Christ's lordship is a blessed hope for some & a terrifying nightmare for others. Regardless of our response, it is an unalterable reality.

  Paul Washer

  Blessed, Reality, Christ

  Twitter post from Sep 11, 2013

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• From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
  And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
  Six miles from earth, loosed from the dream of life,
  I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
  When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

  Randall Jarrell

  Mother, Dream, Sleep

  "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" l. 1 (1945)

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• College is part of the American dream. It shouldnt be part of a financial nightmare for families

  Barbara Mikulski

  Dream, College, Financial

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• The “Vasco da Gama's era” ends in a nightmare in which men-Westerners and non-Westerners alike-are bewildered by this confusion and the old fancy of the apprenti sorcier becomes tragically actual.

  Carlo M. Cipolla

  Men, Confusion, Fancy

  Carlo M. Cipolla (1966). “Guns, sails and empires: technological innovation and the early phases of European expansion, 1400-1700”

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• The Nightmare Before Christmas is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.

  Amy Lee

  Numbers, Way, Influence

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• If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces.. .It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.

  Asger Jorn

  Mind, Orchestra, Nerves

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 166), 2002.

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• It's terrifying. Women make their first film, their second film, and then it's like a nightmare, right, to make the third or fourth? I mean, it's almost like men can have three films in a row that don't do that well and keep on going.

  Julie Delpy

  Mean, Men, Three

  "Round table: Julie Delpy, Ava DuVernay and Leslye Headland on directing". Interview with Nicole Sperling, articles.latimes.com. August 10, 2012.

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• My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.

  Aharon Appelfeld

  Night, Rich

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• As presidential authority expands, and the role of Congress diminishes, the American people continue to lose control over their government. Today's assertions of executive power are indeed a nightmare and Peter Shane's extremely readable and well-informed book describes this disturbing transformation in frightening detail. For anybody who cares about our constitutional system of protected liberties, this book is indispensable. I couldn't put it down and grew angrier, and more concerned, with every page.

  Mickey Edwards

  Book, Government, People

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• Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted d?j? vu.

  Florence King

  Memories, Style, Mind

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• Dream or nightmare, we have to live our experience as it is, and we have to live it awake. We live in a world which is penetrated through and through by science and which is both whole and real. We cannot turn it into a game simple by taking sides.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Dream, Real, Simple

  Jacob Bronowski (1975). “Science and Human Values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• History is not a nightmare from which. I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.

  Peter Maneos

  Wish, Trying, Language

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• When I was 14, I almost had a big green leprechaun tattooed on my forearm. Thank God I didn't - it would have been a nightmare to cover up as an actor. I went with a group of mates and, being Irish, thought a leprechaun would be perfect.

  Jonas Armstrong

  Perfect, Thank God, Groups

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

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• This country isn't working for working people. It's working only for people at the top. That's not the American dream. That's the American nightmare.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Dream, Country, People

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• Strong people stand up for themselves. Stronger people stand up for others. The irony is that while sleep sometimes brings nightmares, it's the reality of my waking hours that can cause me the greater fear.

  Chris Gardner

  Strong, Sleep, Reality

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• I’m willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I’m willing to put my life before movies.

  John Travolta

  Looks, Film, Willing

  "New Again: John Travolta". Interview with Margy Rochlin, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2012.

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• Parking is a nightmare for me... I still have sensors on my car that help me park.

  Jordana Brewster

  Car, Parks, Helping

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

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