Scare Quotes - Page 29

• Christianity isn't dead. It still has the capacity to scare people. It still gives people the creeps, which means there is still some power behind the religion, as sort of watered down as it can be.

  Tucker Carlson

  Mean, People, Giving

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. December 6, 2005.

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• New white people, you can't scare these white people, I tried.

  Dave Chappelle

  Funny, Humor, White

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• Many people think there's nothing they can do to change their karma - it's preordained so why bother trying to change their situation? This is what scares people. These folks think that to accept the reality of karma one must be passive. It simply isn't true. Karma is active. We can - in the blink of an eye - make decisions that will shape our futures and transform the parts of our lives that are causing us unhappiness.

  Mary T Browne

  Karma, Eye, Reality

  Mary T. Browne (2013). “The Power of Karma: How to Understand Your Past and Shape Your Future”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• I'm really quite hard to scare so it was about mining times when I have jumped, and what creeps me out.

  Susan Hill

  Creeps, Hard, Mining

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.

  Peter Cameron

  Thinking, People, Important

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.159, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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• It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.

  Chris Carter

  Smart, People, Television

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• I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies out there.

  Stephen King

  Fun, People, Horror

  Interview with Andy Greene, www.rollingstone.com. October 31, 2014.

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• It's nice to do something about something that scares you rather than just run from it and hope that someone saves you. I like seeing strong female characters and somebody who doesn't run away screaming when scared, but confronts the monsters.

  Katie Holmes

  Running, Strong, Nice

  "Actress Katie Holmes Experiences Dread in Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark & Talks About It". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 7, 2011.

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• I love horror films, but it's more than an adrenaline rush for me. I love them because I know they scare me. It's kind of like I go on roller coasters, but I'm terrified of roller coasters, sort of thing.

  Emily Browning

  Goes On, Kind, Horror

  "Exclusive: Emily Browning Takes Us Into the Uninvited". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. April 27, 2009.

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• I love playing real people. It's a huge challenge and responsibility which I take on board and which I relish. It also scares me to death. Give me a totally fictional character and I don't have the same sort of responsibility. If, though, I play Sigmund Freud or Robert Maxwell or whoever then there is a responsibility.

  David Suchet

  Real, Character, Responsibility

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• As I say, there's something that scares the hell out of me but it really makes me work hard in losing myself. I'm not really interested in me as an actor or being a personality player, or a Hollywood star. What's given to me is to become different people and to find the truth of that. That is really what I do.

  David Suchet

  Stars, Hard Work, Player

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• One thing I would like to do, as the director, I would really like to shoot the movie widescreen, 2.35:1, which we haven't done in any of the movies yet and I think that would really provide another opportunity for scares and suspense, particularly because since Chucky, our villain, is only two feet tall, it makes sense to define the space horizontally rather than vertically. I think that will take it to another level.

  David Kirschner

  Opportunity, Thinking, Two

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Horror movie is a great date movie. For dates... maybe grab on to the guy. I just think people love a good scare.

  Tara Reid

  Thinking, People, Guy

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Honestly, when you're writing you try to stay on the story, on the character's mind, trying to throw stuff at them. There is danger, and the scares have to kick in the right places with the drama. And you try not to do too much to try to create those moments. Those moments create themselves.

  Fede Alvarez

  Drama, Writing, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• Since the show [Helix] is based in real science, there are real-life epidemic scares out there, throughout history, where there are these huge viruses that have wiped out huge populations. So, we're dealing with something that the CDC hasn't seen before, but it comes from a virus. That's something that's based in reality, and then you put the science fiction on that and it's a really interesting combination.

  Kyra Zagorsky

  Real, Epidemics, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• I've often thought that it would be great to do some acting because nobody would think that I would be able to do it and it scares the living hell out of me.

  Larry Mullen, Jr.

  Thinking, Acting, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

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• No one can predict whether the earth will be cooler or hotter next year, let alone do anything to change it. If you're afraid of global warming, turn off the lights when you leave the room - but don't participate in the corruption of science, don't scare our kids with unproven cataclysmic theories, and don't try to ban economic energy sources that people living on this planet depend upon today. And don't try to stop progress; it's the only hope the earth has of seeing clean industry, short of exterminating mankind.

  Doug Casey

  Kids, Light, Years

  "Doug Casey on Global Warming". Interview with Louis James, www.caseyresearch.com. October 7, 2009.

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• When I think about being out of the business, it scares me.

  Kane

  Thinking

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• In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no point in triumphing over evil if the evil isn't scary.

  Neil Gaiman

  Kids, Order, Evil

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• I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

  Taylor Swift

  Hurt, Thinking, People

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• Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone". Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.

  Stephen Covey

  Goal, Challenges, Comfort

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• I get the Playboy thing a lot. People assume I go out with bimbos. I couldn`t go out with bimbos if I tried! I scare them off! The women that like me are smart. So I go to the Playboy Mansion four or five times a year, but people think I go all the time.

  Bill Maher

  Smart, Thinking, Years

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

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• I am flattered that Bob Carter should ask me to launch what I think is a significant new book on climate change. I have developed a very high regard for Bob in the years that I have known him. He has been a terrific and leading voice in combatting the scare mongering that we have all been subjected to on the theory of anthropogenic global warming.

  Nick Minchin

  Book, Thinking, Years

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• When future generations look back on the global-warming scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested – were systematically “adjusted” to show the Earth as having warmed much more than the actual data justified.

  Christopher Booker

  Past, Years, Data

  "The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever". www.telegraph.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being shown to have finagled their data, as in that ludicrous "hockey stick" graph, pretending to prove that the world had suddenly become much hotter than at any time in 1,000 years. Any theory needing to rely so consistently on fudging the evidence, I concluded, must be looked on not as science at all, but as simply a rather alarming case study in the aberrations of group psychology.

  Christopher Booker

  Hockey, Years, Data

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