#scar

When you're doing that TV thing, you're doing the same thing for years and years. You can fall into bad habits as an actor and I think it can take a toll on your ability to act, which I think is scary. ↗

— Rory Cochrane

#act #actor #bad #bad habits #doing

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#asked #being #choice #current #election

His body walks out onto the darkened stage , and a roar goes up from the crowd. He stands in front of the mic, and he can feel his face twist in a sneer-the Elvis sneer from his dreams-though he never told it to move. He is powerless now, a spectator at his own moment of glory. ↗

— Joseph Garraty

#garraty #horror #scary #voice #weird

I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#before #discard #good #i #i can

Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved. ↗

— Stanley Fish

#began #discard #emerge #enslaved #falsely

I appreciated and respected kids who asked questions. They didn't do it to get attention, but because they were interested. Kids who didn't want to look dumb seemed like scared little rabbits. ↗

— Henry Cole

#asked #attention #because #dumb #get

To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#die #even #even now #how #i

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath. ↗

— William Collins

#democracy #feminism #like #me #scare

But I had two very special people who helped to take my style to the next level. Thank God for my first MC Cowboy and my first student Grand Wizard Theodore, and to go out after creating this art form and finding everyone jamming to it - that too was pretty scary. ↗

— Grandmaster Flash

#art #art form #cowboy #creating #everyone

I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea. ↗

— Holly Marie Combs

#enthusiasm #finley #him #his #husband