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There is no public space for women; the whole world is a prison where you have to be constantly aware at all times that you're a potential victim. What's more terrifying is that it's not necessarily preventative.
Jessica Valenti
You
Women
World
Space
Prison
Victim
Constantly
More
Potential
Terrifying
Times
Where
Public
Whole
Aware
Necessarily
Regular panelists on shows can be terrifying. They own that space, and many guest comics suspect they are favoured in the edit, while their own hilarious jokes end up being ejected into the ether.
Jo Brand
Jokes
Space
Hilarious
Own
Guest
Terrifying
Edit
Comics
End
Up
Suspect
Being
While
Ether
Regular
Many
Shows
It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself.
Joely Richardson
Myself
Difficult
Kicks
Those
Recognise
Carpet
Find
Taken
Red
Red Carpet
Pictures
Another
Terrifying
Very
Persona
Just
Things
One of my heroes is a composer named James Bernard, and oh my God... I can still listen to his music today and be stirred and moved by it. But I think that you fall in love with... Well, again, when you're young, it really is more powerful. Much more terrifying.
John Carpenter
Love
Today
Music
God
You
Heroes
Fall
Young
Think
Bernard
Composer
More
Powerful
Named
Well
Terrifying
Still
His
Stirred
Listen
Oh
Moved
Oh My God
James
Again
Much
Really
I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it.
John Keegan
World
Black
Become
Think
Extremely
Tribes
Maelstrom
About
Outside
Outside World
Feel
Terrifying
Without
Africa
Anything
Warring
Need
Needing
The economics of setting up a new restaurant are scary in good times and terrifying in bad ones.
John Lanchester
Good
Economics
Setting
Bad
Restaurant
Scary
Bad Ones
Good Times
New
Terrifying
Up
Times
Stand-up comedy seems like a terrifying thing. Objectively. Before anyone has done it, it seems like one of the most frightening things you could conceive, and there's just no shortcut - you just have to do it.
John Oliver
You
Comedy
Before
Objectively
Seems
Could
Conceive
Like
Most
Terrifying
Frightening
Done
Just
Anyone
Shortcut
Stand-Up Comedy
Thing
Things
When you have a smartphone, the things that it can do are kind of ridiculous and terrifying.
Jonathan Nolan
You
Kind
Terrifying
Ridiculous
Things
The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.
Joseph Rotblat
Life
War
Me
My Life
Enough
Tremble
Crisis
All The Facts
Only
Facts
Knew
Missile
Know
Most
Make
Learned
Cuban
Cuban Missile Crisis
Terrifying
How
October
Were
Close
Did
Moment
Recently
I have to bring to your notice a terrifying reality: with the development of nuclear weapons Man has acquired, for the first time in history, the technical means to destroy the whole of civilization in a single act.
Joseph Rotblat
Time
History
Man
Reality
First
Single
Destroy
Weapons
Civilization
Development
Single Act
Terrifying
First Time
Acquired
Notice
Means
Act
Your
Whole
Technical
Nuclear
Bring
Nuclear Weapons
Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.
Joseph Rotblat
Strong
Long
Before
Recognized
Strong Desire
Abhorrence
Weapons
Potential
Instinctive
Arms
Arms Race
Terrifying
Get
Race
Them
Rid
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Widespread
Desire
When you have corporate influence on our government outweighing the influence of citizens, that's terrifying. This is something we have to make a big, big noise about.
Josh Fox
Government
You
Noise
Big
Our
Corporate
Citizens
About
Something
Make
Terrifying
Influence
Music is so 100 percent for me that the idea of giving that up in any way, shape, or form would be terrifying to me.
Josh Groban
Music
Me
Giving
Way
Would
Would-Be
Percent
Shape
Idea
Terrifying
Up
Any
Form
We've seen some insane signs: 'Is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?' Funny stuff along those lines. Very original. One just said, 'I will do unspeakable things.' I thought that was very interesting - and mildly terrifying!
Josh Hutcherson
Funny
Me
You
Happy
Will
Thought
Signs
Seen
Funny Stuff
Those
Insane
See
Some
Pocket
Unspeakable
Stuff
Along
Terrifying
Said
Lines
Very
Just
Bread
Interesting
Your
Original
Things
Loaf
I watched the Trade Center buildings go down from my balcony, and it was a terrifying moment. I couldn't get my mind around it at all.
Joyce Brothers
Mind
Down
Balcony
Terrifying
Around
Trade
Buildings
Go
Get
Center
Moment
Watched
I think in my late 20s, I was starting to enter that realm of complacency, which is the most terrifying place I can imagine as an artist. I felt time creeping up on me.
Juliette Lewis
Time
Me
Think
Complacency
Late
Enter
Most
Terrifying
Felt
Up
Artist
Place
Which
Realm
Starting
Creeping
Imagine
The genre of horror is really just a way to manage much larger, much more terrifying realities in our daily worlds.
Karyn Kusama
Daily
Worlds
Our
Way
Horror
More
Genre
Terrifying
Manage
Just
Realities
Much
Really
Larger
Sometimes evil is in the form of a malignant clown, and sometimes evil is in the form of policy and legislators, and sometimes it's a grinning death mask and it has something more viscerally terrifying about it.
Karyn Kusama
Death
Sometimes
Evil
Mask
Clown
About
Something
More
Policy
Terrifying
Legislators
Form
It's such a potent thing, to be a kid. We grow up, and we don't want to remember how everything is so beautiful and terrifying when we're young. The older you get, the more you hope to muffle things.
Kate DiCamillo
Beautiful
Hope
You
Remember
Young
Older
Everything
Kid
More
Potent
Terrifying
How
Up
Get
Want
Grow
Grow Up
Thing
Things
All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.
Kate Moss
Time
Home
Cried
See
Attention
Terrifying
Lot
Friends
Get
Quite
Planes
Working
Hard
Sudden
Away
The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.
Kate Thompson
Adulthood
Powerlessness
Terrifying
Child
Often
Forgotten
After
Moving
Phase
As people, right now, we're so over-stimulated in this world that I don't know what I'd do in Wyoming. I really don't know what I'd do. I would probably have a heart attack because I'd be so lonely, and I'd actually have to listen to myself think. That's a terrifying prospect for myself, and I'm sure many other people as well.
Katee Sackhoff
Myself
Heart
People
World
Lonely
Think
Other
Would
Attack
Prospect
Know
Well
Sure
Because
Terrifying
Listen
Really
Many
Now
Actually
Right
Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.
Katherine Heigl
Work
Marriage
People
Terrifying
Really
Many
Actually
I don't love horror movies with something surreal happening. That doesn't work for me. What's terrifying is something that could actually happen to me and what I would do. I don't know how to throw a punch, and I've never had to do it.
Katie Aselton
Work
Love
Me
Punch
Would
Something
Horror
Horror Movies
Could
Throw
Never
Had
Know
Terrifying
How
Surreal
Happen
Happening
Movies
Actually
It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for 'The Girl in the Cafe,' as I'd worked with everyone in the room on 'State Of Play.'
Kelly Macdonald
Cafe
Comforting
Girl
State
Everyone
Both
Terrifying
Audition
Go
Room
Worked
Play
Being a woman in a male-dominated industry sort of sucks, but it doesn't suck any more than being a woman in the world. My advice? Be terrifying.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
Woman
World
Advice
More
Industry
Sort
Terrifying
Than
Any
Being
Suck
Sucks
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