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• I had a book that was given to me as a kid that was called 'Faeries.' It was this dark, sinister book with pictures that used to scare me because they were these creepy little creatures. But, I was always really drawn to that fantasy world, more than a sci-fi world, in terms of outer space stuff.

  Anna Silk

  Book, Kids, Dark

  "Anna Silk Interview LOST GIRL". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 16, 2012.

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• My grandparents were classic Indian grandparents. My grandmother would put so much powder on her face that it was like a Kabuki play and she'd come down the stairs. I was like 8 or 9 years old. My grandfather apparently had no teeth because he would take out his teeth and put them in a glass, and then he would try to scare me with it. I started to try to scare them when I was a little older.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Grandmother, Years, Play

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I want to write about spiders. To me, this is the one theme that cuts right across and scares just about everybody. Spiders, to me, are just about the most horrible, awful things that I can think about. I think everyone is afraid of spiders.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Cutting, Thinking

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a story about snakes because they don't scare me. I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Snakes, Stories

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• I don't have anything against either of the Dead movies, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, none of those movies. If it scares somebody, I think that it is serving a valid purpose. It is doing what the filmmaker intended. But, it is not something that you hand to kids.

  Stephen King

  Kids, Thinking, Texas

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.

  Alexander McQueen

  Lying, Thinking, Editors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want.

  Wes Craven

  Long, Guessing, Want

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. March 11, 2009.

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• I feel very lucky because I don't think there's any part I can't play. There are parts that scare me more than others.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, Play, Lucky

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• I'm constantly looking for something that will be pushing the audience to new scares in horror movies.

  Roy Lee

  Pushing, Horror, Audience

  "Producer Roy Lee Talks THE RING, POLTERGEIST, and THE GRUDGE Reboots, A Darker Ending for Spike Lee’s OLDBOY Remake, and More". Interview on the set, collider.com. November 28, 2011.

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• To do something good, it has to scare you.

  Angelina Jolie

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• The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Ice, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.195, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.

  Holly Marie Combs

  Husband, Thinking, Names

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• You grow (and thrive!) by doing what excites
  you and what scares you everyday, not by
  trying to find your passion.

  Derek Sivers

  Passion, Everyday, Trying

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• I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace. Of course, don't ever tell anybody that they're not free, 'cause then they're gonna get real busy killin' and maimin' to prove to you that they are. Oh yeah, they're gonna talk to you and talk to you and talk to you about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em.

  Jack Nicholson

  Real, Mean, Ems

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• We can sometimes find a person again, but we cannot abolish time. And so on until the unforeseen day, gloomy as a winter night, when one no longer seeks that girl, or any other, when to find her would actually scare one. For one no longer feels that one has attractions enough to please, or strength enough to love. Not, of course, that one is in the strict sense of the word impotent. And as for loving, one would love more than ever. But one feels that it is too big an undertaking for the little strength one has left.

  Marcel Proust

  Girl, Winter, Night

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.348, Modern Library

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• A new study published by The British Medical Journal found that inactivity can kill you. I mean, these are the kind of findings that just scare the hell out of Congress.

  Jay Leno

  Mean, Medical, Study

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• The notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision. It just frightens them.

  George W. Bush

  Vision, Democracy, Want

  President Bush, Tony Blair Hold a Joint News Conference, www.washingtonpost.com. July 28, 2006.

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• I know my mom still wears lingerie and jumps out of closets to scare my dad. She's always joked that she tries to give him a heart attack so she can get his coin collection. But now she's actually worried that she might give him a heart attack. And the coin collection may not exist, so she's being gentler on him.

  Pamela Anderson

  Mom, Dad, Heart

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• He seems like a nice charming guy. [Mike Huckabee] doesn't believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is we should do about ending violence in our inner city—we should make sure all of our young people are armed. Republicans scare me.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Nice, Believe, Views

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• When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching my parents making dinner. I thought I was going to die, but I didn't want to scare them. Our existence was so separate, a dying and a doing well, an outside and an inside. Trey Moody's poems hover in that cold, wet, refrigerator-lit place between the dying and the doing well, the outside and the inside. His poems are the thoughts of the person you love who is always standing behind you, slowly and silently suffocating. But they're not afraid to say hello, and please, and I'm scared.

  Zachary Schomburg

  Boys, Parent, Kitchen

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• Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Envy, Virtue, Accusation

  Leonardo da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete”, p.1198, Library of Alexandria

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• Father, I am from a different egg than your other children. Think of me as a duckling raised by hens. I am not a domestic bird destined to spend his life in a chicken coop. the water that scares you rejuvenates me. For unlike you I can swim, and swim I shall. The ocean is my homeland. If you are with me, come to the ocean. If not, stop interfering with me and go back to the chicken coop.

  Elif Safak

  Children, Father, Ocean

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• Why are we seeing George Bush on TV every two hours for nine or ten days at a time, like some kind of mutated Mr. Rogers clone? Something is dangerously wrong in any country where a monumentally-failed backwoods politician can scare our national TV networks so totally that they will give him anything he wants.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Two, Giving

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.283, Pan Macmillan

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• How do you scare some sense into a child who doesn’t fear death?

  Todd Burpo

  Children, Fear Of Death

  Todd Burpo (2014). “Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back”, p.114, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I would urge the government to allocate more funds toward fighting cancer. My own situation, it made me think. It made me think about the potential of dying. I wouldn't say I was scared. I'm more scared of how it will happen than of it happening. I'm not scared that I'm going to die. I think of how I'm going to die ... I don't want to linger. That scares me a little. The idea of lingering.

  Arnold Palmer

  Cancer, Fighting, Thinking

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