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Tom Hanks Actor, Producer
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"Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it's still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire."

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Tom Robbins Novelist, Essayist
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"Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary."

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Serena Williams Tennis Player
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"When I'm 32? Hopefully I'll have made my mark with a few different movies, some scary ones and some comedies. I'm really funny, I have a great personality on the camera."

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Seth Musician
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"Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art."

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Stephen Jay Gould Paleontologist, Evolutionary Biologist
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"God was there when it happened. We were not there.... Therefore, we are completely limited to what God has seen fit to tell us, and this information is in His written Word."

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Stephen King Author
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"The first real terror struck him then, and there was nothing supernatural about it. It was only a realization of how easy it was to trash your life. That was what was so scary. You just dragged the fan up to everything you had spent the years raking together and turned the motherfucker on."

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"It's such an intimate experience, being a director, artistically. It's deep and it's satisfying and it's wonderful, on so many levels, but it's also really scary."

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Oliver Stone Filmmaker, Screenwriter
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"Obama took a bad situation and, in certain ways, made it worse. ... I find Obama scary in a way that I had not done in 2008."

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Olivia Williams Actress
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"Ewan McGregor and I said this to each other after we saw The Ghost Writer. Every time Roman Polanski did a "No, no, no!," he was right. It was really as if a sculptor was asked to sculpt the embodiment of despair - that was the attitude he would strike. But as with every sort of inspiring teacher you ever had who was strict and scary, when you get it right, the sun comes out, and it's worth it."

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