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“College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school.”

People Stories School Fun College High School Rewards Nightmare Surviving

Author:Judd Apatow

“Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.”

Dream New York Nightmare Chocolate Pot Honey Tunnels Melting Subway Lemons Downtown Harlem Bronx Vinegar Melting Pot Limes Rum Caramel

Book:Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

Source: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

“The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.”

“It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.”

Needs Seems Contentment Nightmare Inexplicable

Author:Louis de Bernieres

“James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped in history and history in trapped in them.”

People May History Nightmare Trapped Joyce

Author:James A. Baldwin

“A man can be riddled with malaria for years on end, with its chills and its fevers and its nightmares, but if one day he sees that the water from his kidneys is black, he knows he will not leave that place again, wherever he is, or wherever he hoped to be.”

Ifs Knows Men Years Ends Black Water One Day Sickness Nightmare Chill Fever Kidneys Malaria

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.”

World Mind Literature Lost Known Western Nostalgia Nightmare Alleys Western World

Author:Florence King

“Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.”

“My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson's out there saying, 'Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me?”

Knows Long Book Someday Nightmare Johnson Franklin Recurring John Kennedy

Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin

“I have a lot of nightmares.”

Nightmare

Author:James L. Brooks

“Whenever life gets to be too much for me, I have a hard time keeping my eyes open. Sleeping is cheaper and safer than drinking. It keeps you from saying or doing things you'll regret later, and though you may have nightmares, you won't wake up with a hangover. I recommend it wholeheartedly.”

May Hard Eye Sleep Too Much Regret Wake Up Drinking Hard Times Nightmare Cheaper Hangover Wholeheartedly Time Keeping

Book:Joanna's Husband and David's Wife

Source: Joanna's Husband and David's Wife

“...even after you've just won the Super Bowl -- especially after you've just won the Super Bowl -- there's always next year. If Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing, then the only thing is nothing -- emptiness, the nightmare of life without ultimate meaning.”

Ifs Years Next Winning Ultimate Competition Emptiness Nightmare Bowls Next Year Super Bowl Winning Isn't Everything

Author:Tom Landry

“Series television is either a nightmare or the best thing in the whole world. It really depends on, I think, where you are in your life.”

Thinking World Whole Television Depends Series Whole World Best Things Nightmare Where You Are

Author:Sherry Stringfield

“I spoke so much about being a manic-depressive. I want to bring everyone back to my earliest memories of this companion of mine. Some people call this companion I have an ailment, or worse a terrible nightmare from which some people cannot awaken. I know that I have nothing to be ashamed of. I have nothing that should garner a stigma.”

People Knows Want Should Memories Mines Terrible Ashamed Nightmare Spokes Companion Stigma Manic Ailments Depressive

Author:Richard Dreyfuss

“Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.”

Wells Stories Jew Nightmare Exposed Compounds Recurring

Author:Jon Ronson

“I'm every woman's dream and every man's nightmare.”

Men Dream Every Man Nightmare

Author:Ric Flair

“I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it.”

Remember Reading Fairs Scripts Nightmare Looking Forward

Author:Colin Baker

“A lot of film directors are quite scared of actors. They are a bit of a nightmare sometimes, but I like them. It looks like cunning, but you try to get extra things from them all the time, by stealth, by making them feel confident, so they trust you and you can push a bit.”

Feels Trying Looks Sometimes Film Actors Bits Directors Scared Extras Nightmare Cunning Film Directors Stealth

Author:Danny Boyle

“Post traumatic stress disorder starts out with nightmares, flashbacks and actually reliving the event. And this happens over and over and over and over in your mind. If you let it go on, it can become chronic and become hard if not impossible to treat.”

Ifs Mind Hard Happens Impossible Events Goes On Treats Stress Posts Nightmare Disorder Let It Go Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Flashback

Author:Dale Archer

“The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.”

World Feels Mind Moving Passion Emotion Objects This World Horrible Wander Nightmare My Passion

Book:In the belly of the beast: letters from prison

Source: In the belly of the beast: letters from prison

“I think my worst nightmare is standing up in front of a group of people.”

People Thinking Groups Worst Fronts Standing Nightmare Worst Nightmares

Author:Emma Caulfield

“When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.”

People Trying Wanted Used House Fans Nightmare Gates

Author:Jackie DeShannon

“Kids are a great analogy. You want your kids to grow up, and you don't want your kids to grow up. You want your kids to become independent of you, but it's also a parent's worst nightmare: That they won't need you. It's like the real tragedy of parenting.”

Want Needs Real Kids Grows Parent Growing Up Worst Tragedy Independent Nightmare Need You Analogies Worst Nightmares

Author:Jonathan Safran Foer

“I inherited this collection of vinyl records, which at that time numbered 6,000, and I've since continued to collect music. As you know, vinyl records can be very heavy, so every time I have to move into a new house, I need to build a complete new wall of shelves to put all these records, which is a nightmare for the architect.”

Knows Needs Moving House Records Wall Heavy Collections Nightmare Architect Shelves Vinyl

Author:Frida Giannini

“Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.”

“I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.”

Ifs Stories Night Ghost Nightmare Midnight Stormy Ghost Stories Staircases Flashlights Stormy Nights

Author:Lisa Gardner

“My kids are my life and the thought of someone taking them away from me is my worst nightmare.”

Kids Worst Nightmare Worst Nightmares

Author:Peter Andre

“Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.”

Play Lines Forget Stage Nightmare Stage Play

Author:Robert Englund

“Caught in the crossfire of a silent scream, where one man's nightmare is another man's dream.”

Men Dream Reality Silent Caught Nightmare One Man Scream Another Man Crossfire

Author:Bryan Adams

“That's what I am, America's nightmare. I am what you made me, the hate and evil that you gave me.”

Made Reality America Hate Evil Nightmare

Author:Tupac Shakur

“Today is built on tragedies, which no one wants to face, nightmares to humanities and morally disgraced. Tonight is filled with rage, violence in the air, children bred with ruthlessness because no one at home cares.”

Want Children Home Reality Care Today Faces Humanity Violence Air Built Tragedy Filled Rage Tonight Nightmare Ruthlessness

Book:The Rose that Grew from Concrete

Source: The Rose that Grew from Concrete

“Ten thousand million nightmares, temptation by the score, I used to get so high, and still I wanted more. You think my time is wasted in search of who I am, I tried so hard to kill the boy inside the man.”

Thinking Men Stills Hard Wanted Used Boys Millions He Man Drug Thousand Ten Alcohol Who I Am Temptation My Time Score Nightmare Drugs And Alcohol

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“Tatoo your name across my heart, so it will remain / not even death could make us part / what kind is it / It could be a sweet dream or a beautiful nightmare / either way I don't want to wake up from you.”

Way Want Heart Kind Dream Beautiful Names Sweet My Heart Wake Up Nightmare Sweet Dreams

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“My nightmare of nightmares is being overdressed for a casual event - I've done it! You have to have a real sense of what you want to communicate.”

Want Real Done Events Communicate What You Want Nightmare Casual

Author:Nina Garcia

“In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.”

Want Feels Children Real Facts Dream Born Baby Incredibles Nightmare Pulse Having Children Bad Night

Author:Sharon Gless

“Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they're willing to take that risk.”

Knows World Evil House Term Risk Willing Members Gun Increase Accidents Criminals Nightmare Versus Citizenry

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“There is an excitement about having nightmares.”

Excitement Nightmare

Author:Betsey Johnson

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