"What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow."
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"I just loved performing. It just made me feel alive. It's scary, but that's part of it. I think it's important to have that extra adrenaline. It gives you that extra zing."
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"I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes."
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"I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered."
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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."
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"I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!"
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"I alwyas want to try and create new looks and new things, but equally scary, hopefully. But a new kind of style."
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"Like an ethereal presence You hang out everywhere. Not a naughty or scary goblin, Rather, an inquisitive observer, A concerned, caring custodian, Visiting every niche and closet Where we stuff the undesired Of our messy, blemished lives, You haunt territories we ignore, Hoping we will find you there."
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"I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress."
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"Do I have a message? Yes, I do. Here's my message: as scary as the world is – and it is – it is merely a ride ..."
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"All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still."
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"When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil."
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"Radio's a scary thing for me. It's dope to be on there."
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"I can only show what I have received from the characters. That's what's scary because you're never going to be everyone's taste and you don't want to let people down. But, I can only do what I can do."
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"Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem."
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"Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them."
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"To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic an event was unmentioned and unnoticed not only in the rich historical literature of medieval Islam, but even in the literatures of the Coptic and other Christian churches, of the Byzantines, of the Jews, or anyone else who might have thought the destruction of a great library worthy of comment. That the story still survives, and is repeated, despite all these objections, is testimony to the enduring power of a myth."
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"The world might be a very scary place if it were only run by Virgos."
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"The future is only scary if we try to avoid it."
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"To conceive music, to execute it in front of others, to make it so others can do it...it can be pretty humbling, and kind of scary. So yeah, I don't really feel in competition with anybody. Not because I feel elitist, but because I have enough self-competition. I'm always struggling."
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