Scare Quotes - Page 15

• I realize what you can do when you scare the population and how media contributes to that.

  Phil Donahue

  Media, Population, Realizing

  "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 24, 2005.

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• I never figured it was a cowardly thing to be scared. It's to be scared and still face up to what scares you that matters.

  Louis L'Amour

  Matter, Faces, Anticipation

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “The First Fast Draw: A Novel”, p.85, Bantam

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• There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Kids, Night, Scary

  Interview with Kay Bonetti, www.english.illinois.edu.

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• It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.

  Lena Dunham

  Brave, Kind Of Girl

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.113, Random House

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• It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you. Performing in sex scenes that I direct, exposing a flash of my weird puffy nipple, those things don't fall into my zone of terror.

  Lena Dunham

  Sex, Fall, Brave

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.113, Random House

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• When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.

  Calvin Trillin

  Knowing, People, Age

  Calvin Trillin (2011). “Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff”, p.21, Random House

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• The scare quotes burn off like fog.

  Ben Lerner

  Fog

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• I'm not trying to be noble. I'm afraid. And the idea of having more love than I've ever had-- and knowing I might never have it again-- that scares me worse than anything.

  Randall Wallace

  Ideas, Knowing, Trying

  Randall Wallace (2001). “Pearl Harbor Movie Tie-In”, Hyperion

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• I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.

  Mark Lawrence

  Fear, Writing, Quiet Moments

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.26, Penguin

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• Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like The Exorcist, The Shining, even though they scare the living daylights out of me.

  Emmanuelle Vaugier

  Shining, Things I Love, Daylight

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• Compassion practice is daring. It involves learning to relax and allowing ourselves to move gently toward what scares us.

  Pema Chodron

  Buddhist, Moving, Compassion

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.66, Shambhala Publications

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• I think what I often see is that people are frightened about fashion. Because it scares them or makes them feel insecure, so they just put it down. On the whole people that may say the mean things about our world I think that’s usually because they feel, in some ways, excluded or, you know, not a part of ‘the cool group’ so as a result they just mock it.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, Mean, Insecure

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• Any time an opportunity scares you that much, you should seriously consider saying yes.

  Rob Lowe

  Opportunity, Saying Yes, Should

  Rob Lowe (2014). “Love Life”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

  Cory Doctorow

  Children, Naughty, Used

  Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross (2012). “The Rapture of the Nerds: A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations”, p.66, Macmillan

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• Psychopaths have a grandiose self-structure which demands a scornful and detached devaluation of others, in order to ward off their envy toward the good perceived in other people. He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit and his plans. He will show you a good time but you will always get the bill. He will smile and deceive you, and he will scare you with his eyes. And when he is through with you, and he will be through with you, he will desert you and take with him your innocence and your pride.

  Robert D. Hare

  Eye, Pride, Self

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• I was obsessed with movies when I was younger. During the summer, I would go by myself to a theater down the street from my house. I saw every comedy or science fiction movie that came out. My kids love going to the movies, but 3D scares them.

  Allen Covert

  Summer, Kids, House

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• Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

  Don Roff

  Writing, Fiction, Problem

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• Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset.

  Sara Blakely

  Assets, Knows

  "INSTANT MBA: 'If You Do Things Without Knowing How They've Always Been Done, You're Guaranteed To Do Them Differently'" by Patricia Laya, www.businessinsider.com. July 25, 2011.

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• We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us.  We are afraid of not having lived.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Dying

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• Companies will often use the legal system to scare people away from attacking them. But we all should be free to make critical statements about anybody, unless those statements are malicious.

  Lawrence Lessig

  People, Use, Legal System

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• It's going to scare some people, because that's what good music does.

  Chris Kirkpatrick

  People, Doe

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• If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films. I remember being a teenager, and people getting out like Halloween [1978] or Saw [2004], and watching them, and I'd kind of just stare at the television logo and blur my eyes and pretend I was watching but I wasn't because I just found that I would take the movie home with me. I can scare myself like a pro.

  Imogen Poots

  Halloween, Teenager, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm scared of haunted things, like hearing noises in my house and stuff. That scares me.

  Jermell Charlo

  House, Noise, Stuff

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• This book could scare them. The sex, the violence, the dream sequences and the iconoclasm - I think a lot of people are uncomfortable with that. I understand that. It was very uncomfortable to write some of it

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Dream, Sex

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• From the cranberry cancer scare of the 1950s to the Alar-in-apples hysteria of the 1980s, from the "new ice age" of the 1960s to the "global warming" of the 1990s, environmental alarms almost always turn out to be false. Few non-political scientists fear ozone loss, global warming, or acid rain. These are just issues that some people hope to use to reorder the lives of the rest of us.

  Harry Browne

  Cancer, Rain, Loss

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