Nightmare Quotes - Page 28

• With a horror movie, you're making a metaphor. You're making a personalized nightmare for the protagonist.

  Jordan Peele

  Horror, Metaphor, Protagonists

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream.

  Robert Englund

  Dream, Universality, Concepts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think of the old slavery, and of the way The Economy has now improved upon it. The new slavery has improved upon the old by giving the new slaves the illusion that they are free. The Economy does not take people's freedom by force, which would be against its principles, for it is very humane. It buys their freedom, pays for it, and then persuades its money back again with shoddy goods and the promise of freedom. "Buy a car," it says, "and be free. Buy a boat and be free." Is this not the raw material of bad dreams? Or is it maybe the very nightmare itself?

  Wendell Berry

  Dream, Thinking, People

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• Vinyl is so outdated nowadays. I can make a track in my hotel room today, and play it for the crowd tomorrow. That never happens with vinyl. I played a lot of acetates at the end of my vinyl period - I used to make tracks and get them pressed in four or five days - but the quality was always so bad and they would skip all the time. The vinyl days for me are over. I still buy vinyl, but only albums, and just to play. For DJing, vinyl is a nightmare.

  Tiesto

  Track, Quality, Today

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

  James A. Baldwin

  Love, Soul, Dominance

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• Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Eye, People, Speak

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

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• If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.

  Louis C. K.

  Real, Character, Eye

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• I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children's nightmares are.

  Lena Dunham

  Baby, Children, Want

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• In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

  Zac Efron

  Inspirational, Basketball, Team

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• I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.

  Keanu Reeves

  Tombstone, Used

  "The inscrutable Mr. Reeves". Interview with John Patterson, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2005.

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• With blue vinyl-tile floor, pale-green wainscoating, pink walls, a yellow ceiling, and orange-and-white stork-patterned drapes, the expectant fathers' lounge churned with the negative energy of color overload. It would have served well as the nervous-making set for a nightmare about a children's-show host who led a secret life as an ax murderer. The chain-smoking clown didn't improve the ambience.

  Dean Koontz

  Children, Wall, Father

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.8, Bantam

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• Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thougt for a moment longer, then scowled. On second thoughts, what a nightmare that'd be. It's the job of a man to fan the spark into flames, not quench it.

  Steven Erikson

  Jobs, Men, Flames

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• Looking back, I'm proud of what I've been able to do, grateful for the fact that I really have very few, if almost zero, nightmare stories of being on sets and working with the wrong people.

  Tyler Hoechlin

  Zero, Grateful, People

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• Young black men are guilty of criminal behavior not because of the alleged crimes they might commit but because they are the product of a collective imagination paralyzed by the racism of a white supremacist culture they can only view them as a dangerous nightmare.

  Henry Giroux

  Men, Views, White

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There are many people who want to make movies and very few opportunities for them to do it. I had a checkered early career with a lot of very unhappy experiences where pictures got taken away, re-cut, re-titled... all the nightmares one hears about. Consequently, it's so gratifying to then make a picture that's successful and gives you leverage to have better circumstances than you've ever had, before the next time out.

  Curtis Hanson

  Taken, Successful, Opportunity

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There's lots of things that can be solved with cash. And there's occasional things that can't be solved with cash, which become a bureaucratic nightmare for some reason, and there's no distinction between the two. There's no way of reading a situation and saying, "Yes, that'll be a bureaucratic nightmare, but that one we'll be able to buy off." It just depends on the day, apparently.

  Danny Boyle

  Reading, Reason, Situation

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• There is a malaise that exists in your land - what appears to many as the sudden and tragic disappearance of the American dream which, in some ways, has turned to nightmare. J. J. Greene Quotes.

  Unknown

  Dream, American Dream, Tragic

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• There was a period of a few months, however, when I had a dreadful physical pain. I had just started writing a particular section of the novel and was initially worried that it would affect my work. I was woken by awful nightmares; I saw several doctors, tests were performed, nothing came of them, and the medics were mystified.It was two days after I finished writing the section that the penny dropped. The pain had suddenly disappeared and so too had the nightmares. I'd got things muddled. The pain and the nightmares were both psychosomatic.

  Zia Haider Rahman

  Pain, Writing, Worried

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Aleppo is a disaster. It's a humanitarian nightmare.

  Donald Trump

  Humanitarian, Disaster

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• As an actor, my attitude towards using of film versus digital is, if you have film, filmmakers have to cut eventually so you don't have to learn all that dialogue. With digital, they can just go on forever and it's a nightmare. So, I like film - nice short takes.

  Michael Caine

  Attitude, Nice, Cutting

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream. Horror movies travel pretty well anyway. They're like action movies: People overseas can watch them and enjoy them, and they're not so culturally specific in terms of their references, and they can follow a good scary story.

  Robert Englund

  Dream, People, Scary

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The real nightmare resides in a society that hides behind the mutually informing and poisonous notions of colorblindness and a post-racial society, a convenient rhetorical obfuscation that allows white Americans to ignore the institutional and individual racist ideologies, practices and policies that cripple any viable notion of justice and democracy.

  Henry Giroux

  Real, Practice, White

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Worst nightmares can also appear with your eyes open.

  Florence Welch

  Eye, Worst Nightmares, Worst

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• I took a sheet of paper, divided it into debt and credit columns on the arguments for and against God and immortality. On Christmas Eve I wrote 'bankrupt' at the foot. And it was on Christmas morning 1895, after I had celebrated three Masses, while the bells of the parish church were ringing out the Christmas message of peace, that, with great pain, I found myself far out from the familiar land--homeless, aimlessly drifting. But the bells were right after all; from that hour on I have been wholly free from the nightmare of doubt that had lain on me for ten years.

  Joseph McCabe

  Morning, Pain, Feet

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• I am a huge, huge, huge fan of index funds. They are the investor’s best friend and Wall Street’s worst nightmare.

  Jonathan Clements

  Wall, Worst Nightmares, Fans

  Jonathan Clements (2003). “You've Lost It, Now What?: How to Beat the Bear Market and Still Retire on Time”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

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