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• I'm terrified about the day that I enter the gates of heaven and God says to me, just a minute.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Heaven, Minutes, Gates

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• Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.

  Zachary Quinto

  Gay, Men, Culture

  "Zachary Quinto Addresses Homosexuality in New Interview, Blog Post" by Jane Kellogg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 16, 2011.

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• For myself, I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the results of this evening's experiments. Astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever.

  Sir Arthur Sullivan

  Forever, Records, May

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• I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever.

  Sir Arthur Sullivan

  Forever, Records, Bad Music

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• I have realized why corrupt politicians do nothing to improve the quality of public school education. They are terrified of educated voters.

  Miriam

  School, Quality, Voters

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• Bella: "Should I be afraid?" Edward: "Terrified."

  Stephenie Meyer

  Vampire, Should, Should I

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• His desperation and misery swept her up like a storm capturing the sea. She turned her mind to even these feelings, because they were his, like his terrified rage in the lift when they had first met, being wrapped in his arms in the cold well, being dazzled by his wonder at the woods and her home and her. Like being a child, awareness of him the morning chorus that woke her and the lullaby that sent her to sleep, his thoughts always her first and last song.I love you, Kami told him, and cut.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Love, Song, Morning

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• Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done. Any opposition to the N.I.C.E. is represented as a Left racket in the Right papers and a Right racket in the Left papers. If it's properly done, you get each side outbidding the other in support of us-to refute the enemy slanders. Of course we're non-political. The real power always is.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Support, Political

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these infinite spaces alarms me.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Space, Silence

  "The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal". Book by Blaise Pascal, published by Kegan Paul. Chapter "The Misery of Man Without God", 1885.

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• Even in the things that look most frivolous there has to be the threat of something quite painful to make the comedy work. I suppose the play of mine that's best know is NOISES OFF, which everyone thinks is a simple farce about actors making fools of themselves. But I think it makes people laugh because everyone is terrified inside themselves of having some kind of breakdown, of being unable to go on. When people laugh at that play, they're laughing at a surrogate version of the disaster which might occur to them.

  Michael Frayn

  Simple, Thinking, Play

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• . . I have written a couple of screenplays for studios, and each time has been less gratifying than the last. In my experience, they want no real representations of homosexuality, they want no complexity, they are terrified of ambiguity and unanswered questions - they don't know what they want, except that they want to make lots of money. The only freedom I've ever had as an artist has been in the theatre.

  Craig Lucas

  Couple, Real, Artist

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• I’m terrified of heights, but I think there’s something really beautiful about birds and soaring, having a bird’s-eye view of the world.

  Lindy Booth

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Eye

  "The Super Lindy Booth". Interview with John Taylor, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 14, 2013.

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• I was terrified. My first week, walking around in a teeny bikini, I kept crossing my arms over my chest because I was afraid I was going to fall out of the top of the suit. And I didn't know anything about technique or lighting.

  Mary Crosby

  Fall, Technique, Arms

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• I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes.

  David Foster Wallace

  Thinking, People

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• Sometimes you need to be terrified to your bones, in order for you to find your way to safety. Pain somewhat has this ability to push you beyond your comfort zone so that you can come back even stronger. To me, obstacles are not a hindrance but as stepping stones to success.

  Rita Zahara

  Pain, Order, Safety

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• The terror of performing never goes away. Instead, you get very, very comfortable being terrified.

  Eric Whitacre

  Feelings, Going Away, Composer

  Twitter post from May 20, 2016

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• I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a family, and at night my dad would try and tell us scary stories. This made eating s'mores difficult. The story would start with something like... 'and the old man who lived in these woods...' I would then run back into the camper terrified.

  Willow Shields

  Running, Dad, Night

  "'Hunger Games'star Willow Shields takes us behind the scenes of 'The Haunting Hour'". Interview with Kat Rosenfield, www.mtv.com. November 2, 2012.

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• When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

  Sheridan Smith

  Being Yourself, Character, Kind

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• I don't want the stage. I'm terrified of giving these talking heads some distraction, some excuse to jeopardize, smear, and delegitimize a very important movement.

  Edward Snowden

  Talking, Giving, Important

  www.wired.com.

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• A library is the only single place you can go to learn something new, be comforted, terrified, thrilled, saddened, overjoyed, or excited all in one day. And for free.

  Amy Neftzger

  One Day, Library, Excited

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• The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Mirrors, Views, Old Things

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• Father was afraid of laughter and joy. He was particularly afraid of ridicule. He was afraid that someone would say that humans are descended from apes. Or that the earth is much older than four thousand years. Or that someone would ask where Noah go his polar bears from. Or that someone would swear. Father was terrified.

  Guus Kuijer

  Laughter, Fear, Father

  Guus Kuijer (2012). “The Book of Everything”, p.77, Scholastic Inc.

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• And y'know what they decided the number one threat was? The destructive and disruptive capability of a small group. That's what they're worried about most... they're terrified of a small group with a committed goal.

  Brad Meltzer

  Fear, Numbers, Goal

  Brad Meltzer (2011). “The Inner Circle: The Culper Ring Trilogy 1”, p.291, Hachette UK

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• When I was in that danger...I felt like I was shaken awake...after everything she made me feel...I made a decision and went to sleep. Do you know what that's like - trying to go to sleep, and lose yourself in the hopes of burying the worst fears in your life?...I wasn't in love with the past. I was terrified of my own future.

  Brad Meltzer

  Fear, Sleep, Past

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• I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

  Teresa of Avila

  Fear, People, Devil

  St. Teresa of Avila (2014). “Autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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