#terrible thing

An ugly woman with an ugly gun is a terrible thing. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

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I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write. ↗

— Anne Perry

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I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

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What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is. ↗

— Dan Quayle

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You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ↗

— Erica Jong

#hands #happens #life #own #take

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

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We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

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It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't. ↗

— Maria Callas

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Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things. ↗

— Kirk Douglas

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If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

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