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You don't realize it, but often people are frightened of the director.

~Danny Boyle

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I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

~David Frum

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Saudi Arabia is a frightened monarchy. It's beset by Sunni extremists from the Islamic State and Shiite extremists backed by Iran.

~David Ignatius

Topics: Arabia Backed Extremists Frightened Iran Islamic Monarchy Saudi Saudi Arabia State

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Frightened people want to protect themselves, sometimes without thinking about others. Often, they get angry and want to find someone to blame for catastrophe. Inevitably, they spread information without checking if it's true.

~David Ignatius

Topics: About Angry Blame Catastrophe Checking Find Frightened Get Inevitably Information Often Others People Protect Someone Sometimes Spread Themselves Thinking True Want Without

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We did the original 'Stargate' as an independent movie. It was a surprise success. Shortly before the movie came out, the financiers who were frightened the movie might not do well sold the film to MGM. When the film came out, it was a hit and spawned TV shows.

~Dean Devlin

Topics: Before Came Did Film Frightened Hit Independent Might Movie Original Out Shows Sold Success Surprise Tv Tv Shows Well Were Who Mgm

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People are very frightened in publishing at the moment. Nobody knows what sells. More so now because the market's changing so fundamentally because of Kindle and electronic publishing. It's a fundamental shift in the way stories are put out into the world.

~Denise Mina

Topics: Because Changing Electronic Frightened Fundamental Fundamentally Kindle Knows Market Moment More Nobody Now Out People Publishing Put Sells Shift Stories Very Way World

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I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

~Denzel Washington

Topics: Ability Been Frightened Given Laziness More Procrastination Using Whatever

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These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

~Derek Jarman

Topics: Decide Finish Frightened Gay Going Homosexual Liberation Limiting Longer Love Me Names Queer Terms Them Use Where Which Word Would

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I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.

~Dick Gregory

Topics: Black Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Day Folks Frightened Mississippi More Movement Never Rights Rights Movement See Than Thought White Would

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Growing up as a kid in Detroit, way back, there was a movie station that would show old kinescope reproductions of old movies, and I remember seeing Bela Lugosi for the first time and being duly frightened out of my wits.

~Edward Herrmann

Topics: Back Being Detroit First First Time Frightened Growing Growing Up Kid Movie Movies Old Old Movies Out Remember Seeing Show Station Time Up Way Wits Would I Remember

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