Scare Quotes - Page 9

• I hope I'm going to act for the rest of my life. What scares me is that if I get a big head, my mum said she would take me out of the business instantly - and if you knew my mum, she would do it!

  Daniel Logan

  Bigs, Said, Mum

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I get freaked out by pills. Everyone I know is always like, "I'm just going to take a Valium or an Ambien on the plane." But I can't do any of that stuff - it scares me.

  Natalie Portman

  Pills, Stuff, Valium

  Interview with Jake Gyllenhaal, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 4, 2009.

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• I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

  Jeremy London

  Ideas, Fame, Being Famous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• I think too many of my Republican friends are into perpetual warfare in the Middle East. And that scares the bejesus out of me.

  Bernie Sanders

  Thinking, Middle East, Warfare

  "Sen. Bernie Sanders on taxes, trade agreements and Islamic State". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 18, 2015.

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• I think that we did a really good thing when we elected Barack Obama. I read his books. He is absolutely and totally qualified for the job. He's proven himself to be not only qualified for the job, but very good at it. The things that he's managed to get accomplished in the face of so much push-back is amazing, and I think - this is Morgan Freeman's personal thought - we're going to be in a lot of trouble if we don't reelect him, because the people on the other side of the fence scare me.

  Morgan Freeman

  Jobs, Book, Thinking

  "Actor Morgan Freeman, Part 1". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. June 19, 2012.

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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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• I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get sore at everybody else. Sometimes it takes two or three conferences to scare up a war, but generally one will do it.

  Will Rogers

  War, Two, Giving

  "Mr. Rogers Has An Idea How Conferences End". Daily Telegram #2159 (syndicated column) on July 05, 1933. "Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams: The Roosevelt years, 1933-1935". Book edited by Steven Gragert and James Smallwood, 2008.

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• We are going to see a great number of articles in the future from so-called experts and public officials. They will warn about more violence, more kidnappings, and more terrorists. Mass media, the armed forces, and intelligence agencies will saturate our lives with fascist scare tactics and 'predictions' that have already been planned to come true.

  Mae Brussell

  Agency, Media, Scare Tactics

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• If something scares me then I feel like I have to do it.

  Barb Honchak

  Mma, Feels, Ifs

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• I am the kind of person that if something scares me then I feel like have to do it. That's something I have to conquer. I need to break that fear and go to it.

  Barb Honchak

  Mma, Needs, Kind

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• I like to scare myself and throw myself off the deep end.

  Samantha Barks

  Ends

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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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• I do think I might scare some guys, because I'm like, 'I want to change the world! I have dreams! What do you want to do?' But I only know how to be me.

  Selena Gomez

  Dream, Thinking, Guy

  "Justin Bieber Arrested For Drunk Drag Racing While Ex Selena Gomez Talks About Moving On", www.foxnews.com. January 23, 2014.

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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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• 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 do think you have to scare yourself. That's where your creativity or your growth comes from. Scaring yourself, challenging yourself, taking those risks, and not caring about what anyone thinks.

  Rita Wilson

  Creativity, Caring, Thinking

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• Do something every single day that scares you...and then watch growth happen.

  Jenna Wolfe

  Growth, Watches, Happens

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• I think it's [concern about global warming] mainly just like little kids locking themselves in dark closets to see how much they can scare each other and themselves.

  Richard Lindzen

  Kids, Dark, Thinking

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• What bugs me is that you believe what you're saying. What bothers me is that you don't know how you feel. What scares me is that while you're telling me stories, you actually believe that they are real.

  Ani DiFranco

  Real, Believe, Bugs

  Song: AS IS, Album: Little Plastic Castle

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• What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

  Jane Wiedlin

  Scary, Truthful, Telling The Truth

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 27, 2011.

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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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