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I'm uncertain, with horror fans, when is disturbing just disturbing, and when is it fun disturbing?
Jeremy Sisto
Fans
Disturbing
Horror
Uncertain
Just
Fun
It took me a long time to even dare to envision myself as a writer. I was very uncertain and hesitant and afraid to pursue a creative life.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Life
Time
Myself
Me
Creative
Long
Long Time
Took
Hesitant
Dare
Uncertain
Pursue
Writer
Envision
Very
Afraid
Creative Life
Even
Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one.
John Lahr
Life
Work
Meets
Uncertain
Imperfect
Write
Writer
Writers
Self
Know
Reader
Always
Authoritative
Mean
Them
Page
Stands
Why
I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. I have written likewise (and repeat my words) that reforms, to be beneficial, must come from above, that those which come from below are irregularly gained and uncertain.
Jose Rizal
Words
Beneficial
Virtues
Those
Must
Recommended
Civic
Above
Uncertain
Writings
Written
Study
Come
Likewise
Redemption
Without
Repeat
Reforms
Which
Gained
Below
Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.
Julian Baggini
Science
Money
Matter
Economics
Action
Uncertain
Because
Subject
Subject Matter
Human
Dismal
Fundamental
Why
One of the uncertain pleasures of adulthood, for me, has really been about confronting how little I know about the world and how much completely baffles me about the world and human behavior.
Karyn Kusama
Me
World
Behavior
Pleasures
About
Uncertain
Adulthood
Know
How
How Much
Been
Human
Human Behavior
Little
Confronting
Much
Really
It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.
Kate Chopin
Light
Fire
Doors
Dim
Drawn
Out
Inside
Shadows
Uncertain
Glow
Still
Sending
Quite
Curtains
Room
Full
Deep
Well, it's still a bit uncertain, but I will do the consulting, and I'll see how I can contribute. But I'm sure whatever I do will involve the space program. That's where my passion is.
Leroy Chiao
Passion
Space
Will
Whatever
Bit
See
Uncertain
Consulting
Involve
Well
Sure
How
Still
Contribute
Where
Space Program
Program
Something I've always written about is social expectations: that the eyes of the community are on you all the time, expecting you to line up with certain social norms, certain behaviours. Whenever you forgot about them, they'd be strongly reiterated to you, in no uncertain terms.
Lynn Coady
Time
You
Eyes
Community
About
Strongly
Something
Uncertain
Written
Terms
Always
Line
Up
Norms
Expectations
Expecting
Forgot
Whenever
Social
Them
Certain
The future is inherently uncertain.
Manmohan Singh
Future
Uncertain
Inherently
Criticism does demand a certain kind of authority, but what about the authority of not really being sure what you think? What about the authority, the authenticity that comes from bringing all your intellectual, emotional and spiritual equipment to a piece of art or entertainment whilst still being uncertain and confused?
Margo Jefferson
Art
Spiritual
You
Entertainment
Confused
Criticism
Think
Kind
About
Uncertain
Emotional
Demand
Piece
Sure
Does
Equipment
Still
Intellectual
Authenticity
Authority
Being
Whilst
Really
Certain
Your
Bringing
Teenagers blithely skip off to uncertain futures, while their parents sit weeping curbside in the Volvo, because the adolescent brain isn't yet formed enough to recognize and evaluate risk.
Michael J. Fox
Parents
Sit
Enough
Teenagers
Recognize
Futures
Adolescent
Risk
Uncertain
Weeping
Because
Brain
Off
Formed
While
Evaluate
Skip
Successful entrepreneurs develop products that inspire their passion. They have to. It's that passion that gets them through the long, arduous, uncertain and frightening early days of a start-up.
Mitch Kapor
Inspire
Passion
Long
Uncertain
Arduous
Through
Entrepreneurs
Develop
Days
Frightening
Gets
Them
Successful
Products
Start-Up
Early
Early Days
The more freedom I allow myself as a writer to wander, become lost and go into uncertain territory - and I am always trying to go to the more awkward place, the more difficult place - the more frightening it is, because I have no plan.
Nicole Krauss
Myself
Freedom
Become
Lost
Difficult
Uncertain
More
Writer
Allow
Because
Territory
Always
Am
Go
Frightening
Trying
Wander
Place
Plan
Awkward
I like to take things one step at a time, because the entertainment industry is very uncertain.
Rebel Wilson
Time
Entertainment
Entertainment Industry
Uncertain
Take
Step
Like
Industry
Because
Very
Things
I mean, the type of art that I enjoy is art that - I enjoy a very broad spectrum, but I especially like art that leaves me a little confused and uncertain as to what just happened.
Reggie Watts
Art
Me
Confused
Enjoy
Type
Broad
Uncertain
Like
Leaves
Very
Just
Happened
Little
Mean
Spectrum
Everything about The Bradshaws is controversial, fluid, uncertain: their age - perhaps 30,000 years old, perhaps older, perhaps more recent - who painted them, what they mean.
Richard Flanagan
Age
Old
Fluid
Older
Everything
About
Uncertain
More
Perhaps
Years
Controversial
Mean
Them
Who
Painted
Recent
I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of my sabre were rendered uncertain by the energetic pushes of an attendant who thus hoped to save me.
Richard Francis Burton
Time
Me
Enemy
Mercy
Strokes
Hoped
About
Uncertain
Rattled
Pushes
Attendant
Thus
Rendered
Without
Were
Surrounded
Energetic
Clubs
Who
Whose
Dozen
Save
John F. Kennedy went to bed at 3:30 in the morning on November 9, 1960, uncertain whether he had defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency. He thought he had won, but six states hung in the balance, and after months of exhaustive campaigning, he was too tired to stay awake any longer.
Robert Dallek
Morning
Tired
Balance
November
Thought
Richard Nixon
Too
Presidency
Months
States
Hung
Nixon
Stay
John
John F. Kennedy
Uncertain
Had
He
Longer
Bed
Exhaustive
Campaigning
Won
Any
Six
After
Whether
Richard
Awake
Defeated
Kennedy
I struggled with each of these studies and I was uncertain about what they meant, and often confused, and then I tried to put together what I was seeing.
Robert Jay Lifton
Together
Confused
Tried
Seeing
About
Uncertain
Struggled
Studies
Put
Often
Then
Meant
Each
If you are fragmented and uncertain, it is terrifying to find the boundaries of yourself melt.
Robyn Davidson
You
Yourself
Fragmented
Melt
Find
Uncertain
Boundaries
Terrifying
Books for teens are amazing and compelling, I think, because they're generally set in a time in people's lives when they are uncertain about who they are and who they love and what the right thing is to do.
Sarah Rees Brennan
Love
Time
People
Amazing
Think
Teens
Books
Right Thing
About
Uncertain
Generally
Because
The Right Thing
Who
Lives
Compelling
Right
Thing
Set
There is nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.
Scotty Bowman
Nothing
Uncertain
Sure
Sure Thing
Thing
I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me, nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce.
Sylvia Kristel
Love
Me
Fruit
Parents
Nothing
Background
Uncertain
Divided
Division
Divorce
Divorced
Longer
Sadder
Supposed
Within
Am
Years
Exist
Years Ago
Than
Child
Happened
Forty
Forty Years
Nearly
Just because a company's future is highly uncertain doesn't mean an investment in it is risky. In fact, some of the best potential investments are highly uncertain but have little risk of permanent capital loss.
Whitney Tilson
Future
Best
Some
Risk
Uncertain
Potential
Risky
Fact
Investment
Investments
Highly
Because
Permanent
Loss
Just
In Fact
Just Because
Little
Mean
Capital
Company
As we prepare to enter the cryptoconomy, undoubtedly it looks fuzzy, foggy, risky, buggy, uncertain and unproven, but so did the Internet in 1995.
William Mougayar
Internet
Enter
Foggy
Fuzzy
Uncertain
Risky
Looks
Undoubtedly
Did
Prepare
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