I don’t know why I’m suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn’t real, at the end of the day.
When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.
John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know, life is nasty, miserable, brutish and short, but that occasionally, there’s a certain river of light, a kind word, a telling gesture that sort of illuminates something.
If someone says something unpleasant, I can’t say it doesn’t smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there.
Life inside successful Web startups – especially the really successful ones – can be nasty, brutish, and short. As companies grow exponentially, egos clash, investors jockey for control, and business complexities rapidly exceed the managerial abilities of the founders.
Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well the end result of clandestine U.S. support for Islamic militants against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the 1980s: 9/11.
Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women’s liberation… none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.
People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it’s nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don’t want to know.
To presume that my greatest achievement is that I dated someone famous twenty years ago is completely sexist and anti-woman. It’s lazy, nasty journalism that makes me sad about our world.
What’s the definition of terrorism? It’s to achieve an objective through the use of force and fear. These are just nasty, evil, disgusting human beings who disrespect human life.
I’ve never been in a place where I’ve wanted to be that nasty to someone.
If people want to say nasty things that’s a good thing in a way because it means people will underestimate me come fight night.
I’m a huge Ronda Rousey fan. She’s extremely talented. What I like most about her is she’s mean and nasty.
There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don’t know what drives someone to be nasty.
I’m a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don’t think I’ll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn’t like my music – I’m not everyone’s cup of tea.
My lip curls in a snide reflex whenever I hear that a new novel is written from the point of view of a child or a monster, a lunatic or an animal. I immediately expect a nasty coyness of tone, cheesy artifice, the world through cardboard 3-D lenses.
The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn’t have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
There’s a particularly nasty element when lots of men get together sometimes.
I’m not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.
An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.
As NBA coach, people get on you. But politics, maybe even more so at the local level, is nasty on a very personal level. I have a thick skin, but I don’t want to deal with it.
Beer is nasty.
As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.
I receive the flak via nasty blog posts, letters, usually coming from very religious people who cannot reconcile how I could share spiritual message and at the same time teach about money.
If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend or, perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.
Writing is not a genteel profession; it’s quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.
Some actresses are just insane. I’ve never worked with a nasty actress – they’re all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.
Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.
Right is right and wrong is wrong. And you can’t wait until something nasty and horrible happens to then claim it’s wrong, while you’ve catered the support of certain groups for votes or other reasons.
I do think social media can be positive – there are so many parents online sharing their experiences. I talk to other parents and I’ve made some brilliant friends. But it can also be nasty.
People talk about escapism as though it’s something nasty but escapism is wonderful!
It’s easy to just be rude or just be nasty. I think it’s actually harder for people to say something positive; it’s interesting.
I can be pretty nasty. Not ‘mean’ nasty, but nasty by your parents’ standards. But not by my parents’ standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.
If I ever feel like, ‘Oh, my life!’ or get upset by silly things like a photographer, or if someone has written something nasty that’s upset me, I just think, ‘Worse things happen at sea.’
If you’re part of a show that is watched by millions of millions of people, of course there are going to be nasty comments. You can’t take them personally.
As a person, I have never been discourteous or nasty to anybody. I may have stood my ground a bit too directly, a bit too firmly, and I believe I have, over a number of years, learned to be a little less direct.
You can count on one hand the white rappers that have made it. So I just wanted to show the point of view of an actor in Hollywood, because what could be more soft than that. Rapping about auditions and acting and stuff. I thought it was just uncharted territory to clown on, so that pushed through with Dirt Nasty.
When sports gets involved with petty politics from authorities and co-athletes, it becomes a nasty game.
The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show… Cops would come by – often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
Too many kids think condoms are nasty and vulgar, instead of as something that can save your life.
I’m always the interrogator. When I was an actor in rep, I always played sinister parts. The directors always said, ‘If there’s a nasty man about, cast Harold Pinter.’
I’m called rude things, and people say nasty stuff. It’s disrespectful, and as women we don’t deserve that.
Discipline is not a nasty word.
People on radio and television started making nasty comments about me and I felt awful. Turning from a teenager into a woman is hard enough without dealing with snide comments.
Corporate efficiency has led to a nasty trend of filtering resumes for keywords. This might save time, but it ensures that many of the best candidates will never make it to the interview.
Si’s beard is really awkward. One side is longer than the other, and it’s about three different colors. I don’t think he washes it. It’s nasty.
I’ve seen a lot of women give up after they’ve had three or four bad gigs in a row. It’s very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.
I like really bad puns – proper, red-top, nasty puns – I find them funny.
Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.
I like to take chances. The actors I admire are the ones who aren’t afraid to make themselves nasty, bad or even goofy. I’ve never shied away from controversial characters.
Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.
The North East is a tough, working-class area. Its people boast great humour. But for two days every year, when Newcastle and Sunderland play football, it’s absolute chaos. And very nasty. It borders on tribal hatred.
We all make judgments on people, but some are much more brutal than others. It’s easy to say, ‘Ya know, I’m not crazy about what she’s wearing,’ but you don’t have to be nasty about it, and you don’t have to be public about it.
If you’re going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it’s sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.
I’m not a hopeless romantic. I’m quite the reverse. I’m a nasty piece of work, an ego maniac.
Even when a Geordie is trying to be nasty, it doesn’t sound that threatening.
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can’t let people’s nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?
I like golden-era hip-hop because they were recording on a 2-inch tape. There was dirty, raw sampling. It’s nasty. It has a vibe to it.
