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I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.
It's easy to scare people. It's easy to shock them. But making people laugh and making them feel is a big challenge.
I was absolutely astonished by an onslaught of comments expressing their absolute shock that IFLS is run by a woman.
Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
Some friends said they weren't surprised to find out Napoleon and I were related, but it came as quite a shock to me.
There is only one kind of shock worse than the totally unexpected: the expected for which one has refused to prepare.
I like shocking, but I don't like to shock as an automatic process. Sometimes it happens, but it's not my main drive.
Any natural, normal human being, when faced with any kind of loss, will go from shock all the way through acceptance.
When you write, you are alone. It can be a bit of a shock later to discover that people have read what you've written!
Going through different places, I stopped through Dubai and stayed there overnight. There I had an ultra-culture shock.
Miss Marple believes in justice and has very high standards. There is nothing you could say or do that would shock her.
I meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.
The blackness of space was a big shock to me. It is a deep, three-dimensional, oily blackness. You can feel the distance.
We moved to Gambia from Sweden when I was six years old because my dad was from there. It was definitely a culture shock.
It was a culture shock at first, moving from Michigan to Mississippi. But it ended up being the best decision I ever made.
In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.
Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.
It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.
If my opponent wants to think of me as a dunker, it's just gonna shock them more when I show them another part of my game.
Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.
There is something like destiny. I don't really care if people doubt or express shock over whether our marriage will work.
Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
When Mahavishnu came out in '71, the unbelievable reaction to the band was a real shock to me. It was a shock to everybody.
I've always been really dark, and drawn to darker humor. Nothing has been forced, and I don't say anything for shock value.
I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
The thing I don't like on television is when somebody does something that makes absolutely no sense just for the shock of it.
With my classical training and coming from a metal band, producers didn't know what to expect. I like to shock people, though.
It might shock you, but I haven't been to that many fashion shows, and I'd never done a commissioned piece for a fashion house.
I even had breasts that had mechanisms that could make them droop. It was a shock in the beginning. Talk about special effects!
Through my attempt to get pregnant through IVF, we sadly found out that I have early stages of breast cancer. It's been a shock.
I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.
I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?
It was a shock for me to see that there are obviously more people in Germany with fascist opinions than I thought there would be.
No matter how prepared you think you are for the death of a loved one, it still comes as a shock, and it still hurts very deeply.
I believe movies are showing us what we already know with aliens especially, so when we do get to meet them it's not a big shock.
I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.
Just as the body goes into shock after a physical trauma, so does the human psyche go into shock after the impact of a major loss.
I think audiences are really savvy and know when we're doing stuff to just shock them versus do stuff that really drives the story.
I played soccer. I was really known as an athlete. It was a shock to people that I was doing music. They thought it was really odd.
I think the elements to shock the world is either the ability to wrestle and grind somebody out or the ability to knock someone out.
Uh, I do not wear a wig in 'Star Trek' like I did in 'Bottle Shock,' thank God. 'Bottle Shock' will be the last wig movie I ever do.
Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.
'Graceland' getting canceled was definitely a shock and disappointing for all of us. One minute it's this. The next minute it's that.
I was brought up to believe that human beings are good, which is why it shocks me to the core when I see human beings behaving badly.
You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer.
I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
I was very young when I made my debut. I was only 16 and it was a bit of a shock that I was involved, but there were a lot of injuries.
I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.