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I think these are terrible times to be anything in. -- Swoosie Kurtz
I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times. -- Anthony Bourdain
I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction -- Lois Lowry
I think ultimately the film 'Room' is a kind of hymn to motherhood and to the everyday heroism of parents who find their smiles in terrible times. -- Emma Donoghue
I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices -- Virginia Woolf
I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer. -- Virginia Woolf
Honesty, I went through terrible, terrible times where I just took myself over the coals. I thought I must be the most impure person in the world ... but because that is reverse egotism, I thought I must be the second most impure person in the world. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I try to be realistic and pragmatic. I have a lot of hope for humanity as a species, but obviously as individuals we can be extremely flawed. We may have to go through some very terrible times in the near future, even if we ultimately survive as Homo sapiens. -- Annalee Newitz
If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once. -- Tana French
I've dyed my hair a million times and it looks terrible, always. It just looks fake. And it doesn't make me look that much younger. -- John Slattery
We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie. -- Ismail Merchant
I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
Fiction is able to encompass books that are bleak and which dwell on the manifold and terrible problems of our times. But I don't think that all books need to have that particular focus. -- Alexander McCall Smith
My parents were wonderful people, but there were terrible rows between them, and at times I found the atmosphere at home unbearable. The Arthur Ransome books gave me an alternative childhood and the tools to escape. -- Michelle Magorian
The United States is a concept that works very well, even in bad times. But that's no reason to think its structure can be superimposed with success on any other part of the world, particularly when times are terrible. -- Paul Johnson
I certainly direct with confidence even if I'm not confident. I learned early on as an actor that confidence can be faked, and it's not always a terrible thing to do. A lot of times if people feel you're confident, then they're confident. -- George Clooney
If a movie is received badly, and I'm in only one scene of it, I still feel responsible. I feel like it was my fault at all times. If people were like, 'This movie sucks!' I'd be like, 'Well, that's because I'm terrible.' -- Melanie Lynskey
Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression of the 1930s. If we are not to endure terrible times like those again, we are told, we must support whatever form of state intervention is currently being peddled. -- Thomas Woods
The thing about aging is all your old lovers, pretty much if they were really friends, become your family. It's great. You have those terrible feelings of possessiveness and uncertainty go out the window. You have what you shared. You know you would help each other in times of trouble no matter what. -- Gloria Steinem
There are terrible, terrible memories of September 11th, things that I saw, people that I lost, the devastation, the identification of bodies. I mean, all these memories come back to you at different times. And then the other side of it this tremendous response with the firefighters and the police officers saving people, the rescue workers. -- Rudy Giuliani
The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject. -- Patrick Duffy
There have been times when I've been broke, and a job came along, and I've said, 'Yeah! Let's do it!' But I will never do something without having a feeling of knowing how to play it. I've been in projects that I felt terrible about afterwards, but I've always had something that sparked me while I was doing it. -- Alan Arkin
Terrible times breed terrible things, my lord. -- George R. R. Martin
In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste. -- Marilyn Johnson
I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection. -- Truman Capote
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests. -- Jose Marti
Even if times are tough and you're enduring a terrible heartache, it's important to focus your anger on a vibrator, not another person. -- Chelsea Handler
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible. -- Neale Donald Walsch

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