Scare Quotes - Page 18

• You never know where your next scare is coming from. You've just gotta find the courage to face it.

  Shaggy

  Next, Faces, Knows

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• Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.

  David Carradine

  Would Be, Way, Undone

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• It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

  Wendell Berry

  Heart, Paper, Breakfast

  Wendell Berry (2012). “It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays”, p.28, Counterpoint

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• The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

  Freeman Dyson

  Climate, Facts, Reason Why

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• The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.

  Tracey Emin

  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Stephan Collishaw, www.believermag.com. April 2004.

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• Multimedia scares me off.

  Michael Nesmith

  Multimedia

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• If you keep thinking about putting on a conference or being a Hollywood screenwriter, and you find the idea terrifies but intrigues you, it's probably a worthy endeavor for you. You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excites you and what scares you everyday, not by trying to find your passion.

  Derek Sivers

  Passion, Thinking, Ideas

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• I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me.

  Gillian Anderson

  Thinking, Ordinary, Mediocrity

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• I don’t make the decision about what percentage of good guy or bad guy I play. For some reason, if I put my energy into the bad guy, that scares people. It’s magic.

  Rutger Hauer

  Play, People, Guy

  Actor Rutger Hauer Is Retribution Personified" by Rick Paulas, www.wired.com. April 26, 2011.

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• L.A. kind of scares me.

  Kevin Bacon

  Kind

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• I'd seen musicians act, and it scares me. And they make more money than me.

  Tim Roth

  Musician, More Money

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• It would be thrilling if I could be boycotted or something. I think that's part of the thrill Madonna gets, when you know you've hit a nerve. But that doesn't scare me. To me what would be a lot scarier would be like appearing on an episode of 'Full House' or something.

  Downtown Julie Brown

  Thinking, House, Would Be

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• I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.

  Valerie Bertinelli

  Liars, Years, Botox

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• When I was in high school, my friends and I would drive out into the country to abandoned houses and structures... haha... to ghost hunt. We would scare each other so bad! We would sometimes camp out by the abandoned buildings just to scare ourselves! Such good times. The adrenaline of real fear is so cool!

  Keegan Allen

  Country, Real, School

  "My favorite scary movie: Keegan Allen's head turns at 'exorcist'". www.mtv.com. October 28, 2011.

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• I don't watch horror movies because they scare me!

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Watches, Horror

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• I constantly have anxiety about being the lead of the show. I don't talk about it because it scares me. But I've always wanted to be part of something where I could work on a character in such a big manner, and you get offered that with all the trappings of being the lead of the show.

  Erica Durance

  Character, Anxiety, Bigs

  "Erica Durance Talks Medical Drama SAVING HOPE and Why It Brought Her Back to TV After SMALLVILLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 5, 2012.

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• So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.

  Joe Dante

  Kids, Done, Kind

  "Interview: Joe Dante on the horrors of 'The Hole'". www.mtv.com. September 27, 2012.

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• My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.

  Ted Dekker

  Silly, Thinking, Air

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• Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.

  Charles Frazier

  Real, Writing, Years

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• And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Editors, Police, Want

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• I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.

  Wyclef Jean

  Way, Trunks

  Song: Anything Can Happen, Album: The Carnival, 1997

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• Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Science, People, Hell

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• I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.

  Shirley Henderson

  Lonely, Jobs, Real

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

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• To tell the truth, I'd scare me too.

  Jethro Tull

  Honesty, Telling The Truth

  Song: I'm Your Gun

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• The truth can't hurt you, it's just like the dark. It scares you witless, but in time you see things clear and stark.

  Elvis Costello

  Hurt, Philosophy, Dark

  Twitter post from Apr 25, 2013

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