Writing can be a frightening, distressing business, and whatever kind of structure or buffer is available can help a lot.
It’s a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.
I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn’t have found it so frightening to write.
A lot of black guys always ask me, ‘Did Larry Bird really play that good?’ I said, ‘Larry Bird is so good it’s frightening.’
I think safely experiencing fear by watching a horror movie makes real life a little less frightening.
The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.
The Gabba is not a frightening place to play.
I like having the script before I start. With new plays, you’re constantly developing as you’re doing it. It’s really frightening. You don’t quite know how it’s going to end up.
2011 is one of those years that historians are likely to look back on as a ‘hinge.’ And the truth, at once frightening and exhilarating, is that we don’t know yet which way the door will swing.
Me in drag is kind of scary, actually. It’s frightening. I actually look pretty good.
I was constantly being sought after for money. And the vitriol that came my way from many who felt threatened by controversial aspects of ‘for colored girls’ was often frightening.
To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.
When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of various celebrities. They are bigger than King Kong, and more frightening.
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I’m not the same as a lot of people – I’m quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better – and people accept you for what you are.
Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.
I’m terrified that I’m genetically predisposed to only having boys. That’s frightening. By the time I was 10 years old, and I’m not exaggerating, I knew how to patch drywall.
A terrible additional worry was the emergence of AIDS. I know I wasn’t the only friend of George’s who worried about him during that uncertain, frightening period.
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
I think. as a child, there’s something frightening about certain adults, particularly when you’re in their clutches or power. That must be the reason why Roald Dahl creates such brilliant characters: He taps into something in the collective memory of people.
The very damaging, frightening part of postpartum is the lack of perspective and the lack of priority and understanding what is really important.
There’s more GPS in the phone in your pocket than on most of our 21st century airliners – that’s frightening.
As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven’t seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
Life is as horrifyingly frightening as it is hilarious.
I find the whole idea of religion overwhelming and frightening and not for me.
I try to pull my inspirations from everyday life. If I came across a situation that is like, ‘Oh, that’s going to be scary, that’s going to be frightening,’ that’s when I get inspired, and I put that into my films.
ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It’s a serious problem overseas, but it’s confusing and frightening.
Healing and miracles have been a mystery to men of all times. To some, the phenomenon is frightening, while others find it exhilarating.
My mother tried really hard to protect us, but occasionally, after afternoon cartoons of whatever was on… the nightly news would come on, and I’d see footage from the war zone, and I would hear the word ‘Vietnam,’ and I would know my dad was over there, and it was a very frightening experience for me.
Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject. But when teenagers take the bait and live out our fantasies for us, we punish them for frightening us too much.
We in Britain stopped evolving gastronomically with the advent of the pie. Everything beyond that seemed like a brave, frightening new world. We knew the French were up to something across the Channel, but we didn’t want anything to do with it.
This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don’t want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.
Of course, when you’re a parent, that’s your paramount concern, for your children, and there were some very credible and frightening threats, and the agency declined to provide any security, and it felt like a betrayal all over again. It was really painful.
I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events that is also so beautiful and ethereal.
The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did.
It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.
American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.
This whole climate change and what it’s doing to our environment is frightening to people.
I became almost immediately fascinated by the possibilities of trying out all conceivable reactions with them, some leading to explosions, others to unbearable poisoning of the air in our house, frightening my parents.
I don’t think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.
If frightening sensations are not given the time and attention they need to move through the body and resolve or dissolve, the individual will continue to be gripped by fear.
For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you’re entering pretty frightening territory.
Unprecedented’ is the term I’ve heard most commonly to describe the COVID-19 pandemic. As for me, I would describe it as a storm at sea. Lengthy and ferocious. Uncontrollable. Frightening. All-pervading.
I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy.
Life without oil, in fact, would be so different that it is frightening to contemplate. We are addicted, and it is no comfortable addiction.
Sometimes it was so quiet, it’s frightening. It really prioritizes things.
Ambiguity is our permanent state, isn’t it? We don’t like it being so. Most of us crave order and routine, and yet yawning before us is our future, as frightening as it is thrilling.
It’s less frightening to do television, theatre is very nerve-wracking, very raw.
If you have to be frightening, you need some actors around you to be really frightened. And if they’re not frightened, you’re not so frightening anymore. In the same way, people say, ‘I think you come in, and you’re really sexy’. But how do you play sexy? It depends on the eyes that are looking.
The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory – and I am always trying to go to the more awkward place, the more difficult place – the more frightening it is, because I have no plan.
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
My nine-year-old was trying to read my spiel. When she tried to pronounce the word ‘pharmaceutical,’ it was frightening. She would love to argue in the Supreme Court one day. My son asked me, ‘Mommy, why do you have to have so many arguments? Why can’t you have agreements?’
Sureness is something like a neck brace, which we clamp around our lives, hoping to somehow protect ourselves from the frightening, constant whiplash of change. Sadly, the brace doesn’t always hold.
I’ve always been slightly afraid of coming out with my record because it’s so personal to me. Now it doesn’t feel as frightening as I thought it would.
The more frightening and sort of dark and oppressive a movie is, the more free you are to explore the supernatural and explore faith. The two just somehow go hand-in-hand really nicely.
Kids love to be scared; we all do. But there’s a difference between leaving them hanging out there, with their fears, and then bringing them safely home. Kids love it when someone like them stands up against real evil, something really horrendous and frightening, and win.
