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"I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it."
"It's great to jump into things you're not sure of and you haven't done and that are a little scary. That's what we have to do, as artists."
"Let us join Paul and declare anathema upon anyone who loves not the Lord Jesus. (I Cor 16:22)"
"Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state."
"I always like to be somebody scary. When I was little, my mom used to make our costumes. She's really creative and would make us great costumes without having to spend a lot."
"Anybody that believes in separation of church and state needs to leave right now."
"We live in a very scary time. Or should I say we don't live at all."
"Nothin’s real scary except in books."
"Personally, I'm a real wimp with scary movies. I get so scared."
"I'm driving down the freeway the other day, on my way to Knott's Scary Farm probably, and I hear this report on NPR that the whole lemmings thing was faked in the 1950s. They were shooting a wildlife documentary in the '50s, they found a group of lemmings, and the crew chased them all off a cliff. No lemming has ever jumped off a cliff, purposefully, ever. Isn't that unbelievable?"
"I'll be out shopping, and all it takes is for one person to recognise me and it can get scary."
"Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing."
"Persecute them. ... Let them be put to shame and perish. ... Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. ... Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children."
"Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will."
"Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation."
"The biggest edge I live on is directing. That's the most scary, dangerous thing you can do in your life."
"I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us, guess what, you're going to live forever, you're going to go to some other plain where you're going to be so happy, you'll just be happy all the time, which is also kind of a scary idea to me."
"For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ."
"I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary.""
"You know what the really scary thing about bad dreams? It's that something's going on in your head, and you can't control it. I mean, It's like there's these bad worlds inside you. But it's just you... it's like you're betraying yourself."
