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• It's one of the worst nightmare situations we could create for a young character, having the people who are supposed to believe in you keep telling you you're nothing.

  Scott Snyder

  Believe, Character, Worst Nightmares

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I didn't think of being an artist until after I went away to boarding school. There were other things to be interested in. And it seemed like a nightmare.

  Elizabeth Neel

  School, Artist, Thinking

  Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• I also think that we [Americans] are operating out of fear in our country. It's not that terrorism is not a threat, but it's not an existential threat. It is not the preeminent threat facing most Americans on any given day, and yet the power of nightmares is so strong.

  Jeremy Scahill

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• If you lost the love of your life, that's a nightmare.

  Quentin Dupieux

  Love Your Life, Lost, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think I suffered with depression, I don't think I'm a depressed type of person - I just think I suffered a depression to do with snooker, and I just couldn't handle it. I could go out and play, but take me out of there and I couldn't do life. It was a nightmare, my life just felt like a bit of a nightmare.

  Ronnie O'Sullivan

  Thinking, Play, Type

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

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• I have my great grandmother's recipe for black beans, all the way from Cuba, and I know how to make those. I'm actually pretty good at it now. But my first time, the beans actually exploded in the pot, so I had black beans just dripping from the ceiling - which is actually a dream come true for most Cubans. It was a nightmare to clean.

  Danny Pino

  Dream, Grandmother, Black

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• It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

  Alan Rickman

  Watches, Film, Horrible

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• I did some pretty crazy stuff that I never thought I would do, for the sake of a movie, like surfing in eight-foot waves in pitch-black darkness, where I can't see anything. That still haunts me, kind of, in my nightmares, but it was worth it, it was fun.

  Leven Rambin

  Fun, Crazy, Feet

  "EXCLUSIVE: Leven Rambin Talks Chasing Mavericks Blu-ray" by Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. March 01, 2013.

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• Most of my nightmares that jolt me awake either involve the cosmos or something completely out of human control. In reality, I worry more about nuclear war, or war in general.

  Lorene Scafaria

  War, Reality, Worry

  "Filmmaker on 'Seeking a Friend's' origins". Interview with Mike Ayers, www.cnn.com. June 23, 2012.

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• One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  People, Together, Losing

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• Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.

  Rachael Taylor

  Hair, Long, May

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

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• Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.

  Grant Morrison

  Grief, Writing, Joy

  Interview with Leonard Pierce, www.avclub.com. July 22, 2009.

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• I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

  Ian MacKaye

  Track, Decision, Want

  "Ian MacKaye" by Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. February 20, 2007.

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• It's a Vietnamese soup that answers the question, 'What happens when a former child soldier pours hot rain water over fish nightmares.' It's delicious and I can't stop eating it, that's what happens.

  Kyle Kinane

  Children, Rain, Water

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• The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

  Karl Marx

  Generations, Tradition

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• One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Creatures

  Guy Gavriel Kay (2016). “The Summer Tree: Book One of the The Fionavar Tapestry”, p.253, Hachette UK

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• To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.

  Dick Cavett

  New York, Holiday, Traffic

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.116, Henry Holt and Company

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• I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

  Emmanuel Jal

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Talking

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• Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.

  Max Beerbohm

  Inspirational, Poor, Terror

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• Everything I was afraid of when I was growing up, I've become. I've taken on my nightmares, like the devil and the end of the world, and I've become those things.

  Marilyn Manson

  Growing Up, Taken, Devil

  "A Dangerous Man? Marilyn Manson Says He’s Become His Own Nightmares". Interview with Dan Aquilante, nypost.com. November 17, 2000.

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• A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader.

  Del Howison

  Dream, Cutting, Flesh

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• You know that thing when you're not asleep but you're not awake, and you can't move your body? I had that kind of nightmare, and I felt like all my teeth were crumbling in my mouth. Now I have this fear of all my teeth being knocked out of my mouth somehow!

  Nicholas D'Agosto

  Moving, Teeth, Crumbling

  "Hot Guy to Know: Nicholas D'Agosto". Interview with Kara McGrath, www.seventeen.com. August 8, 2011.

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• For many, the American Dream has become a nightmare.

  Bernie Sanders

  Dream, American Dream

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

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• Who needs to go the horror movies? Just go outside or turn on the TV. Buddha called it the "nightmare of the day." Welcome to incarnate experience.

  Frederick Lenz

  Suffering, Needs, Tvs

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• It is much nicer to live in perfect mind, free from pain and agony. How painful it is to be unenlightened. Buddha called it "the nightmare of the day."

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Agony, Perfect

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