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• It's too scary in television. It's scary to sign a six-year contract for something that you don't necessarily know about.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

  Kevin Spacey

  Thinking, Film, Driven

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• I went to a psychoanalyst. He explained things about my love life that I found very impressive... almost scary.

  Britney Spears

  Love Life, Found, Impressive

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• Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Writing, Vanity, Cells

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky.

  Steven Spielberg

  Dad, Lying, Heart

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• When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?'

  Nicolas Cage

  Beach, Book, Philosophical

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• Because there is that sort of feeling that people don't know what to do with gaps in their lives. It's a scary notion, but actually, if you can stand in space just for a little while, a new door will open, or you'll be able to see in the dark after a while. You'll adjust.

  Jane Campion

  Dark, Doors, Space

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. September 22, 2009.

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• Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.

  Truman Capote

  Art, Fun, Writing

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• Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.

  Jim Carrey

  Class, Freeman

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• All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Dark, Fairy Tale, Classic

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• Fairytales have always got to have that scary quality, as long as you make them laugh.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Long, Laughing, Quality

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• My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Wall, Character, Reflection

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• Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

  Morgan Freeman

  Movie, Thinking, People

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• Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.

  Anna Friel

  Mother, Pain, Sleep

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

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• A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Laughing, Fiction

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  Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

  Greta Garbo

  Happiness, Smile, Fake People

  Raymond Daum, Raymond W. Daum, Greta Garbo (1992). “Walking with Garbo: conversations and recollections”, Perennial

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• Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

  Jerry Garcia

  Doe, Stuff, Ambiguous

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• When I was a kid, my favorite movies were the George Pal version of 'War Of The Worlds,' 'Them,' and 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers.' Those movies were scary! They haunted my nightmares for years, so when I started writing, I wanted to write a story that was just as big and just as scary.

  David Gerrold

  War, Writing, Kids

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

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• People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.

  Mel Gibson

  Scary Stories, People, Fascination

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• I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

  William Gibson

  Writing, People, Survival

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• Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.

  Seth Godin

  Blow, Years, Wind

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• I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Dream, Painting

  Vincent van Gogh (1987). “Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890: Vision and Reality”, Gloucester

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• Cover versions, that's my forte, that's all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs, it's quite scary, 'cause I'm quite honest and open, they can be very revealing. But covers, I don't have to think about, just get me up there!

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Thinking, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was little I went to a Baptist Church with my grandmother. My earliest memories were of her falling out in the middle of the floor and they had to cover her with a white sheet. Every time we went to church it was scary. The music would start playing, and then everybody would start running and shouting and hollering and screaming.

  Sherri Shepherd

  Running, Memories, Fall

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• I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.

  Grace Slick

  Thinking, People, Old People

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