is not your typical horror or slasher movie. It's meant to be a thriller with an edge and a lesson to it.
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In Europe, there is no horror movie. It's very hard to make a slasher or gory movie. There is no...
ALEXANDRE AJA To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD 'Among Friends' was really well written and had strong characters, and while all the element...
DANIELLE HARRIS Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI I wouldn't exactly describe 'Detention' as a horror movie. I mean, it does have horror e...
SHANLEY CASWELL I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I've never done a horror movie, like a full-on gore slasher film.
ASA BUTTERFIELD when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE 'Ravenswood' is horror. It's not slasher, but it's psychological and spiritual horro...
TYLER BLACKBURN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS The scariest movie I have ever seen, and my favorite horror film is, 'The Exorcist.' It is a...
KEEGAN ALLEN It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ...
STEPHANIE KLEIN This is your moment. You're meant to be here.
HERB BROOKS Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT Just because you love someone doesn't mean you're meant to be together.
MICHAELA D. What was always interesting about Thomas Harris' books is they were a wonderful hybridization of...
BRYAN FULLER I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and n...
DANNY STRONG The game is meant to be fun.
JACK NICKLAUS I'm psychologically equipped for this.
A. ASHLEY STRAKER 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
DEBASISH MRIDHA A Ritual to Read to Each Other
If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
JEFFREY FRY I look at things as 'Everything is meant to be.'
LIL WAYNE Furniture is meant to be used and enjoyed.
NATALIE MORALES What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.
ELIZABETH GEORGE To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
ED WOOD The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr...
C.S. LEWIS It seemed like in the States, you could make a cheap movie if it was a horror movie, and it could lo...
SAM RAIMI It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller.
ED WOOD I would love to do something in the thriller category. Not so much horror, but I would love to do a ...
BROOKE NEVIN It's a thriller, it's definitely not a horror film, but it has enough of the elements that also work...
WES CRAVEN A good horror movie should have peaks and valleys, a good horror movie should move you emotionally; ...
KIRK HAMMETT Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER How to be a Poet (to remind myself)
Make a place to sit down.
Sit down. Be quiet. <...
WENDELL BERRY if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI All these horror movies are slasher film now. I like them, they're fun, but they wink at the aud...
GINA PHILIPS Tell me why it feels like you're a part of my soul?
CASSANDRA GIOVANNI Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.
MARILYN MONROE I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
MAMIE VAN DOREN Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.
RAYMOND FLOYD Life is meant to be enjoyed, not just endured.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY I'm a strong believer in 'everything is meant to be for a reason.'
NICOLE SCHERZINGER What's meant to be will always find a way.
TRISHA YEARWOOD I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.
ELIZABETH GEORGE I really do like a really good science fiction movie and a really good horror movie. Those are the k...
PAUL GIAMATTI Five billion people have played Hamlet. 'To be or not to be.' And how do you do that and fin...
ANNETTE BENING Joy is meant to be felt; its not meant to be detained. It is meant to be shared with others; not to ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary... like...
CHRISTINE ELISE When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi...
C. JOYBELL C. stop looking for job, create one.
SOTONYE ANGA Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate...
MARQUIS DE SADE I do like sci-fi, and I do like horror - those are my favorite genres. Good horror, though, not like...
MARK PELLEGRINO 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON And I knew that it was possible he wasn't entirely right for me, but I also knew, in some way...
CATHERINE LACEY To be a leader, take action and be an example. To be an adviser, be wise.
DEBASISH MRIDHA It's obviously not buckets of blood; it's a psychological thriller, ... For me, it was kind of an an...
WES CRAVEN I'm not a huge scary movie kind of guy; like, I don't do slasher movies, because I'm rea...
BRENDAN ROBINSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Beautiful things happen in your life,if you distance yourself from all the negative things.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Rock music is not meant to be perfect.
OZZY OSBOURNE A few goals is the way soccer is meant to be played.
ABBY WAMBACH As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
DAN SIMMONS If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn't meant to be.
RYAN LOCHTE In some strange way, this was meant to be.
JOEL GRETSCH Whether or not an utterance can be called law depends on how it is heard, not on how it is meant. La...
WILLIAM MCDAVID There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
HARPER LEE The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It
has no power to explain even some
of the most basic principl...
LEWIS N. ROE It's important to understand that if
someone calls themselves a Christian, it does not automatically...
LEWIS N. ROE If you were to ask everyone what 'Hamlet' was about, they might say, "It's about a ...
ORLANDO BLOOM Hannibal Lecter stole Leatherface's mask and ported the slasher conventions into the thriller fo...
STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES The normal storyline of a horror film or a slasher film is the young, beautiful college folks go cam...
JOHN SCHNEIDER I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
VALORIE CURRY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
LAILA ALI Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I will not read the last page of novels first," I said, and then punched myself in the face.
"...
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JARED DIAMOND Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
JARED DIAMOND To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the b...
JARED DIAMOND I need to find a woman named Monday... Because Mondays always suck
JARED MEADOWS This report may give pause to some of the optimists looking for a stronger second half, ... We need ...
JARED BERNSTEIN Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, l...
JARED DIAMOND The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island, isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got int...
JARED DIAMOND The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North Amer...
JARED DIAMOND Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter...
JARED DIAMOND Try and fail, but never fail to try!
JARED LETO Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ...
JARED DIAMOND Humans have been evolving for millions of years longer in Africa than in Europe, and even anatomical...
JARED DIAMOND It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, i...
JARED DIAMOND Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ...
JARED DIAMOND We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reas...
JARED DIAMOND How is it that Pizarro and Cortes reached the New World at all, before Aztec and Inca conquistadors ...
JARED DIAMOND Australia is the most isolated continent.
JARED DIAMOND Tasmanians actually abandoned some technologies that they brought with them from Australia and that ...
JARED DIAMOND The federal government has an exceptionally poor record of behaving responsibly with Americans' ...
JARED POLIS While most of my public service work centers on improving our schools and fixing our broken immigrat...
JARED POLIS Pure guts. That's Eli. I mean, he's a Manning. He's an incredible player. To be hurting the way he w...
JARED LORENZEN I always thought, 'Will I go into the business, or will I not go into the business?' But whe...
JARED KUSHNER I was confident going into the second overtime because I'm at my best on the mat. In the sectional h...
JARED JAMINSKI Guys like Bryce Treggs, Chris Harper, Kenny Lawler, Darius Powe, Richard Rodgers, Jackson Bouza. All...
JARED GOFF This decline [in the jobless rate] is certainly the largest drop we've seen in recent months, so it ...
JARED BERNSTEIN When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you ...
JARED DIAMOND