I say ‘spectacle’ rather than ‘story’ because in the end, it isn’t the intricacies of narrative that draw us to horror films. When it’s there, I’m grateful for the director’s skill at telling an exquisitely nuanced tale filled with psychological insight, but it is the spectacles that I take home with me.
I am honoured to be taking part in the Diamond Jubilee flotilla along the Thames in my 20-foot rowing boat. The energy levels will be high, partly because I’m planning to ply the crew with thermos flasks filled with Typhoo!
When you’re a confused 19-year-old filled with questions you can’t even articulate and a kind of black rage that feeds at your heart from the moment you wake up in the morning, and you discover Marcus Aurelius’ ‘The Meditations,’ that changes your life.
The regular things in my life now – training sessions and playing matches – will all fall away. That will leave a big empty space and it will need to be filled.
I have always loved creating and entertaining. It started with music, singing. I grew up in a household filled with music – not pop but old-school stuff, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong.
As a competitive gymnast, my life has always been filled with challenges that would ultimately define my future. From day one, I was taught to be prepared at all costs.
Sure enough, my life has been filled with some pretty interesting things every single day.
My copy of ‘Night’ is dog-eared. The pages are filled with plastic colored ‘flags’ that are blue, green, purple, and yellow. Vocabulary is in the margins; phrases and sentences are underlined, some with pencil, and some with pen. Many words are circled.
Our national history has so often filled us with bitterness and the feeling of helplessness.
Pixar is filled with people who don’t get rid of their toys.
The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it’s probably a good thing. We don’t need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.
I’d won three cups with Lazio – then, against the odds, we won Serie A, the Italian equivalent of the Premier League. Rome went wild. Thousands of people filled the streets, and fans even jumped on my car. I became known as Il Mitico – ‘the legend.’
Every newspaper in the country covers stories that other newspapers cover. Every industry is filled with people who are competing to do the best job providing a particular service.
We can see loss as something missing, but that missing space can be filled with something else, and that creates healing.
I am filled with so much sincerity and gratitude to know where I came from and what I’m doing now.
I have a lot of family members that served in the American military. I did not serve; I filled out the selective service. It’s one of the regrets for my life.
I want to have my 11 or 12, 13, 14 belt picture. I want to be lying down just covered in them. I want a lot of them. I want my closets to be filled with UFC belts.
During my time at Watchung Hills Regional High School, I was fortunate to have a number of teachers who inspired me and filled me with enthusiasm for learning.
Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.
I write anywhere – when I have an idea, it’s hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn’t be disturbed; it really filled my day.
I never knew my father, which explains the Clint thing. He called himself Daddy… I loved it then, because it filled a great void.
The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.
The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
Every successful career I’ve ever known was filled with long periods of meandering, months or even years when no one knew what would happen next. Look at me: I started as a geology major turned failed realtor.
The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.
Many of the earmark request forms are actually filled out by lobbyists and then just turned in by the member’s staff to the appropriations committee.
There’s so much published by so many different publishers. Most of the time, I don’t have to confront that, but walking into a conference center filled with books – and people buying them or not buying them, being interested or not interested in them – that’s just overwhelming to me now.
We are proud to be the No. 1 most funded film on Indiegogo… and with a totally new property. In a world filled with sequels and reboots, Lazer Team is a brand-new IP being made possible by the people who want to see it.
A fanboy’s heart is filled with love, enthusiasm, and insecurity.
I have ended up on so many weird Men’s Rights Twitter accounts filled with weird anime. I don’t know. It’s so bizarre to me that people can think that way, and so I feel like I can decode them or figure it out. But you can end up so grossed out.
At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.
Eventually, most people felt MoMA had filled a very important gap.
Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.
The art world is filled with vibrancy.
What I love about the Don Draper character is that he’s so real and filled with all these contradictions.
Homes are filled with who you are, as opposed to things.
I am such a rewriter; I have so many notebooks filled with drafts you wouldn’t believe.
Ever since I can remember, I hated silence. I wanted it filled with guitars and melodies to sing all day.
Growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry. But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet.
The way we finance homes in this country is slow, filled with middlemen, who run a nonstandardized evaluation process. This makes financing a home cumbersome and difficult.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
I would like to face everyone on the Impact roster. It is filled with amazing performers, I would be honored to share the ring with any of them.
I’m a huge Elizabeth Berg fan. Her novels are always charming, thoughtful, and filled with lively, three-dimensional characters.
I’m not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants.
My father was sick when I was little, and we had a woman, a nanny-type, who was from Ireland. Her daughter was in Irish dancing, so she put me in it, and in the summertime, every weekend was filled with traveling somewhere to dance in competitions.
Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, ‘These people have too much time on their hands.’ Besides, I don’t want to make some poor assistant clean up someone’s trailer after I’ve filled it with, say, Cadbury eggs. See? I can’t even think of a good prank.
I think ‘The Giver’ is such a moral book, so filled with important truths, that I couldn’t believe anyone would want to suppress it, to keep it from kids.
I have about 20 sketchbooks from my childhood filled with drawings, but I’d only have a page here or there where I was trying to figure out how to do comics.
The result is a picture that represents so much of what I want and rarely get from a movie – a couple of hours filled with characters who are as exciting as the people I know in real life.
Soccer is my first love. I’ve been playing since I was 4 years old. I traveled the world doing it. I broke my leg when I was 16 or 17, and acting kind of filled the void.
Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.
I came into Chicago in winter – I’d never been so cold in my life! I was very homesick, and a poor student at that time. America seemed so different and so filled with amazing things – and almost all of them were out of my reach.
I’ve always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.
Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation – while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
My love of running developed when I got older. At school it filled me with dread and the idea of running around the sports pitches struck me with a nameless fear.
And as a child I was filled with passionate admiration for acts of civic courage I had seen performed by an elderly military doctor, who was a friend of my family.
There was a point when dancing to music became cheesy after the boy band era of NSync and Backstreet Boys, but there were always those who craved that kind of visual satisfaction. K-Pop really filled that void, because it’s so geared to spectacle.
