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“I completely reject the idea that working adults need to be treated like infants or worse and not told the realities, harsh or not, about the world of work. Keeping people in the dark and filling them with stories that are either mostly fabricated, unusually rare, or both, doesn't do anyone any good. It is one of the reasons that workplaces and careers remain in such dire straits.”

People World Needs Ideas Reason Stories Reality Dark Careers Adults Treated Rejects Harsh Workplace Infant Filling

Author:Jeffrey Pfeffer

“Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.”

“My characters are all "just people" - people you might know - and the things that happen are things that anybody might do if they lived on a freighter that spent most of its time in the Deep Dark.”

People Ifs Knows Character Might Happens Dark Deep Dark

Author:Nathan Lowell

“This is naturally the most important thing, the dark traces left by the era of totalitarianism in the human mind, where is - are difficult to do away with. And this is a very demanding job.”

Mind Humans Important Jobs Left Difficult Dark Important Things Eras Human Mind Totalitarianism

Author:Judy Woodruff

“When you look out into the world and you turn on the news and it's just so dark, it's still there. But it's the battle, it's the struggle with that, and at the same time to recognize that happiness and love and all those things exist as well.”

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Author:Lupe Fiasco

“It's really about taking something inherently negative, and starting with the word loser, starting with something that's negative, and changing it into something that's positive, redefining it, but doing it in a certain way, how - like I would say when I look out at the world and you see it's dark and it's just overbearing and every day is depressed, depressed, depressed. What it took was to change my perspective a little bit. Not to change the world, to change my perspective.”

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Author:Lupe Fiasco

“So you grow up with those messages, "You're a failure, you embarrass me, that's why I dress you in dark colors etc." or even when parents commit suicide, the child may think they were a failure as a child causing that. The majority of those people who weren't loved turn to drugs and alcohol and suicide.”

People Thinking May Children Turns Grows Parent Dark Growing Up Color Drug Messages Dresses Suicide Majority Alcohol Commit Etc Drugs And Alcohol Dark Colors

Author:Bernie Siegel

“You go from having fun doing something to having it become your life without you realizing it. It can be weird and dark, but every single time I have a dark thought that makes me think dark about that, I tell myself, "Stop, you're stupid. This is great."”

Thinking Fun Realizing Dark Stupid Having Fun Without You You Re Stupid Dark Thoughts

Author:Nicolas Jaar

“You learn to present dark things without including their ability to harm, treasuring them for what they are.”

Dark Ability Including Harm Dark Things

Author:John Darnielle

“Generally, you're always shooting in the dark with Beyonce. She's just creative and eclectic and up on always trying to be ahead of the game. That was the moment of me trying to figure out how I wanted to give her another moment.”

Giving Trying Moments Wanted Games Dark Creative Figures Shooting Always Trying Eclectic Beyonce Ahead Of The Game

Author:Bryce Wilson

“There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.”

Art Term Dark Hopeless Works Of Art

Author:Eyvind Kang

“I'd go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn't know who I was. And things just get really dark.”

People Knows World Self Film Dark

Author:Angelina Jolie

“I find a very guilty pleasure in dark themes and vibes, and finding where the transcending nature of awareness meets this darkness.”

Dark Pleasure Darkness Awareness Findings Guilty Theme Transcending Vibes Guilty Pleasure

Author:Mike Scheidt

“Memories were in my mind during nearly all the concerts I've done, and I realized the deep connection to my childhood, when I went out in the morning and the only thing my mom said was, "Come back before dark." What trust and what freedom!”

Mind Said Done Memories Dark Morning Childhood Mom Connections My Mom I Realized Concerts Deep Connections

Author:Volker Bertelmann

“I am a big fan of the Coen Brothers; I like their kind of absurd, dark approach.”

Kind Bigs Dark Fans Brother Approach Absurd Coen Brothers

Author:Volker Bertelmann

“The intersection of spiritual, dark music and radical ecology is quite natural.”

Spiritual Natural Dark Radical Ecology Intersections

Author:Kristoffer Rygg

“Our troops are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night in Iraq.”

Children Night Dark Iraq Troops Our Troops

Author:John F. Kerry

“I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor - a very Canadian sense of humor.”

Dark Interviews Dry Sense Of Humor Candid Dry Sense Of Humor

Author:Michael Buble

“I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.”

Writing Light Seems Dark Depressing Twisted

Author:Joshua Homme

“When I was a kid growing up in the '80s, the BBC showed those old Buster Crabbe serials like Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. So instead of ponderous sci-fi or depressing sci-fi or dystopian sci-fi and all the things we're kind of used to, where it's always raining and it's always dark, I thought, "Wouldn't it be nice to do something that was just fun and absolutely nonstop?" Like, I love writing action, and this thing is that. It's all action.”

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Author:Mark Millar

“For them [LGBT group], language has to say exactly what it means. "Why aren't you proud of being gay?" they wanted to know. "Why are you so dark? Why are you so morbid? Why are you so sad? Don't you realize, we're all okay? Let's celebrate that fact." But that is not what writers do. We don't celebrate being "okay." If you want to be okay, take an aspirin.”

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Author:Richard Rodriguez

“We were pretty normal - suburban kids having a good time playing in bands. We were silly. We weren't dark, intense, humorless people. Humor was one of the connecting forces among us. It was more like camaraderie.”

People Kids Force Dark Band Normal Silly Intense Good Times Connecting Having A Good Time Camaraderie

Author:David Pajo

“I don't know if there's anything that would surprise people, because I don't think that anybody knows anything about me at all. There's not much out there. I think I'm going to come out with a pretty dark and troubled record, and it might upset some people.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Might Dark Records Surprise Upset

Author:Zachary Cole Smith

“I think that the dark side of MFA programs is that they're generating more poets than the culture can absorb and there are more people writing poetry than possibly read it or can certainly earn a living around it.”

People Thinking Writing Culture Sides Dark Poet Program Dark Side Writing Poetry

Author:Edward Hirsch

“I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come to terms with the dark corners of their own soul, to come to terms with the undecided, their own sense of self, and maybe help develop a capacity to love - to love wisdom, love justice.”

Writing Soul Self Helping Term Justice Dark Models Capacity Corners Insight Memoir Sense Of Self Capacity To Love Undecided Love Wisdom

Author:Cornel West

“It's deeply personal to watch actors go to those dark places. It can be scary, so you channel them all your love and energy, and you know you'll be safe on the other side.”

Knows Actors Energy Sides Dark Watches Safe Scary Dark Places

Author:Amy Ryan

“I've always been a mythology lover, and so I took a great deal of inspiration from the tales of various dark gods and popular versions of Hell from the Greeks and the Norse stories.”

Stories Inspiration Dark Deals Hell Lovers Various Mythology Tales Versions Greek Norse

Author:Michael Boatman

“When I was little, I went to a Catholic school and was required to go to church every morning and with my parents on Sundays, so I spent a lot of time sitting on a wooden pew. Angels are sort of a relief. If you're looking around, the other imagery is so dark and heavy. Looking at the beautifully rendered pictures of angels was more uplifting.”

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Author:Danielle Trussoni

“I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful ones in the market in 2012. And I realized I cannot write that kind of book. It's too gruesome, too violent, too dark; there's no redemption there.”

Writing Kind Book Reading Dark Successful Mystery Fans I Realized Violent Redemption

Author:Isabel Allende

“My female protagonist will not be this promiscuous, beautiful, dark-haired, thin lady. It will be a plump, blond, healer and so forth.”

Beautiful Dark Female Healer Protagonists Promiscuous Female Protagonists

Author:Isabel Allende

“Well, life is dark. We live in a very dark world. When they call them "dark films" it annoys me, because they're very real stories. They're stories I have seen or experienced or witnessed, and coming from that place, that is the hope of humanity.”

World Wells Real Stories Film Life Is Humanity Dark Annoying Real Story Dark World

Author:Charlize Theron

“Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces put up within him.”

Men Force Dark Enemy Chiefs Unruly Dark Forces

Author:Ernest Jones

“I mean, let's face it, we didn't have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back. I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.”

Should Years Mean Country Faces Dark One Thing Streets Built Opposites Slavery South Merit Bad Things Just Saying Posthumous

Author:Dave Zirin

“Here, like everywhere else, laughing and singing, dancing and dreaming are not exactly the whole of reality; and for one ray of sun shining on the hut, the rest of the village remains in the dark.”

Whole Dream Reality Dark Laughing Sun Singing Remains Dancing Shining Village Rays Huts Singing Dancing

Author:Simone Schwarz-Bart

“Light and dark are relative to one another like forward and backward steps.”

Light Dark Steps Unity Relative Light And Dark

Author:Shitou Xiqian

“A good friend is someone we can count on, as well as being so much more. A friend is someone with whom we can relax and just hang out, have fun and share our innermost thoughts - deep dark secrets, lofty and noble goals, or our hopes, joys, and fears. A good friend allows you a safe space to share your deepest thoughts and needs - without worry of being judged, criticized or made to feel silly for feeling the way you do. Friends cheer each other on, laugh and cry together, and just plain commiserate and listen to each other. That's why friends are friends.”

“The war you feel within - that restlessness, the unending uncertainty - is not to be dismissed, avoided, hated. That internal conflict is not dark, it is a beaming light trying to focus you, the rolling thunderous call of courage, the rays of greatness seeking to explode beyond your skin to touch once more the Spirit of Possibility.”

Feels Trying War Light Spirit Dark Focus Possibility Greatness Conflict Skins Seeking Uncertainty Hated Internals Rays Rolling Avoided Restlessness Unending Internal Conflict

Author:Brendon Burchard

“Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between the partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death.”

Heart Energy Dark Broken Partners Visible Broken Heart Racing Back And Forth

Author:Colette Dowling

“After one has been in a lowly position, one knows how dangerous it is to climb to a high place, Once one has been in the dark, one knows how revealing it is to go into the light. Having maintained quietude, one knows how tiring compulsive activity is. Having nurtured silence, one knows how disturbing much talk is.”

Knows Has Beens Light Dark Silence Know How Dangerous Position Activity Climbs Taoism Tire Revealing Disturbing High Places

Author:Zicheng Hong

“If the mind is illumined, there is clear blue sky in a dark room. If the thoughts are muddled, there are malevolent ghosts in broad daylight.”

Ifs Mind Dark Rooms Clear Sky Blue Ghost Taoism Broads Daylight Blue Sky Dark Room Clear Blue Sky

Author:Zicheng Hong

“I think anything you listen to is going to be different. You're going to listen to a song differently if you're just sitting around somewhere listening on your phone as opposed to sitting in a dark room listening to a vinyl album. It's going to be a totally different experience.”

Ifs Thinking Different Song Dark Rooms Listening Sitting Phones Albums Sitting Around Vinyl Dark Room Different Experiences

Author:Brendon Urie

“My aunt had given me these rosary beads that were glow-in-the-dark. So all of a sudden I look down and they're glowing, and I'm looking toward the door and thinking, "Oh, my God, I don't want anything to come though here. I'm not worthy, I'm not ready." I didn't want to be one of those kids who sees Our Lady of Fatima.”

Thinking Want Looks Kids Given Dark Doors Ready Down And Worthy Aunt Glowing Not Ready Beads Rosary Not Worthy Glow In The Dark Rosary Beads

Author:Susan Sarandon

“I've always been drawn to a certain kind of dark aesthetic in cinema and in film, to what's abjected or considered abject. I've been tremendously influenced by noirish cinema whether that's Von Sternberg or Scorsese in the 70s or Lynch, etc.”

Kind Film Certain Dark Cinema Etc Aesthetic Scorsese

Author:Anton Yelchin

“I make videos which are works of art in themselves which have nothing to do with Hollywood movies or anything along those lines and I like videos because they deal with light and dark and time and change and they're just another kind of medium that I can get into and work with when I choose to other than, say, doing something on the wall or a window.”

Kind Art I Can Light Lines Dark Deals Wall Window Hollywood Video Mediums Works Of Art Light And Dark Hollywood Movies Time And Change

Author:Robert Barry

“Alice and I, we'd met before, but we were able to kind of sit and chat on the set of Dark Shadows, and talk about maybe writing some songs together. We started doing that, and then one thing led to another and it became this Vampire project - because he was telling stories about all those days, which were fascinating.”

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Author:Johnny Depp

“People who believe that they are going to be excommunicated and shamed, or whatever other dark things may happen to them, are much less likely to enter open, loving relationships. And they are also much less likely to have the self-esteem that is required to be monogamous and loving. And in consequence, they are much less likely to create families.”

People Believe May Self Happens Dark Self Esteem Consequence Esteem Dark Things Loving Relationships

Author:Andrew Solomon

“I think I've got a lot of dark lines in this record [Wild Things] that I've hidden quite nicely among the nice things.”

Thinking Lines Dark Records Nice Nice Things Wild Things

Author:Ladyhawke

“I am a fan of the true crime and horror genres! So, I've got a dark side too.”

Sides Dark Fans Crime Horror Genre Dark Side Horror Genre

Author:Ladyhawke

“Because I was familiar with Taika's Watiti work and there's a very subversive, funny streak amongst all of them. I don't think he turned [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] into a sort of drama, there's too much dark material underneath it for it to be a comedy; it wasn't designed to be a comedy. I think it's a comedy... I think it's a drama that's funny; which is different.”

Thinking Different Dark Comedy Too Much Materials Drama Familiar Hunts Subversive Streaks

Author:Sam Neill

“I kinda like the duality of California and the dark side, the underbelly of California.”

Sides Dark California Duality Dark Side

Author:Mark Hoppus

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