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People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.

~Aaron Stanford

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During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.

~Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

Topics: Afraid Aunt Black Breasts Children Civil Civil Rights Eat Frightened Human Human Rights Instead Liberals Like Meat Milk Past Rights Strong Sucked Toms Uncle Were White Years

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Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity.

~Aimee Mullins

Topics: About Adult Behave Curiosity Curious Differences Foreign Frightened Influences Kids Know Learn Natural Naturally Only Them Those Understand Way

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Parents become very good at not hearing the explicit words and listening instead to what the child means but doesn't yet know how to say: 'I'm lonely, in pain, frightened' - distress which then unfairly comes out as an attack on the safest, kindest, most reliable thing in the child's world: the parent.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Attack Become Child Distress Explicit Frightened Good Hearing How Instead Know Listening Lonely Means Most Out Pain Parent Parents Reliable Safest Say Then Thing Unfairly Very Which Words World

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I don't think I've ever frightened myself before when writing, but there were areas where there was terror, as though I was looking into somewhere that I didn't know existed before, and it frightened me.

~Alan Garner

Topics: Area Before Ever Existed Frightened Know Looking Me Myself Somewhere Terror Think Though Were Where Writing

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A man who is in control, and inside there is a frightened child - that interests me. Why? You can draw your own conclusions.

~Alan J. Pakula

Topics: Child Conclusions Control Draw Frightened Inside Interests Man Me Own Who Why You Your

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Actors are frightened little children.

~Alan Rosenberg

Topics: Actor Children Frightened Little Little Children

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I get really frightened easily.

~Alexandra Daddario

Topics: Easily Frightened Get Really

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Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

~Alfred Hitchcock

Topics: Because Coward Everything Fear Film Fortunate Frightened Good Good Luck Hero Life Low Luck Make Person Really Suspense Threshold

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I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.

~Alicia Vikander

Topics: About Always Am Been Bit Doing Films Frightened Interested Interviews Love Make Quite Reserved Rest Thing Think Very Whole Work I Think I Am I Love

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