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An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.

An awful lot has been written about my temper.

An awful lot of actors who are considered very good actors are not very good actors. There are people who just strike gold, they have intrinsic talent, but the point is that if they did train, it would not inhibit them. If they were with a good teacher, it would only broaden them more.

An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in.

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whole awful face Time's iron feet can print no ruin trace.

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

Anything awful makes me laugh. I misbehaved once at a funeral.

Another funny thing about having friends was that they expected things of you. they made you want to not be a terrible, awful, execrable person. They made you feel worse when you were one. It was a lot easier not to have any friends.

Anna was saying to herself: why do I always have this awful need to make other people see things as I do? It's childish, why should they? What it amounts to is that I'm scared of being alone in what I feel.

As the gloom and shadow thickened behind him, in that place where it had been gathering so darkly, it took, by slow degrees, - or out of it there came, by some unreal, unsubstantial process - not to be traced by any human sense, - an awful likeness of himself!

As much as it's awful to learn about all the greedy and selfish decisions that some people make, I know there are many more people who have good intentions.

At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.

August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.

At one point, I even thought, "Oh, I'll take diet pills." I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It's awful, and I would never, ever recommend it.

Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.

As security or firewall administrators, we've got basically the same concerns [as plumbers]: the size of the pipe, the contents of the pipe, making sure the correct traffic is in the correct pipes, and keeping the pipes from splitting and leaking all over the place. Of course, like plumbers, when the pipes do leak, we're the ones responsible for cleaning up the mess, and we're the ones who come up smelling awful.

Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies.

Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.

Being homeless is awful, but if you've ever tried to wrestle a duvet cover back onto a comforter you realise it's not without it's benefits.

Bread without butter or coffee without milk is an awful calamity, as if everything before being put in our mouth must first be held under a cow.

Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful.

But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?

But now we've finally taken full possession of what is rightfully ours, because everyone must feel their own pain--and as awful as that is, it's also wonderful.

Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.

But, Tarantino has seen all of my movies. He's seen my good stuff, he's seen my bad stuff, he's seen the ones I directed, he's read my autobiography. There's an awful lot of things he knows about me, all of which I think had something to do with his casting.

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell.

. . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.

But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today.

Divorce is just the most awful thing in the world.

Death is an awful thing. I don't believe in it myself.

Count Olaf sounds like an awful person. I hope he is torn apart by wild animals someday. Wouldn't that be satisfying?

Donald Trump is an awful loser.

Even if people end up doing awful things, you can empathize with their motives when you know them. When you get to know the person, you can understand why they make those choices, even if they're bad. And oftentimes people do have good drives that are sympathetic and can even be seen as selfless and good-hearted.

Do you ever get the feeling that something awful might happen?' James asked me. . . I sat up. 'I'm the awful thing that happens.

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

Every day is amazing, even when it's awful, because everything is for a reason. I know that this horrible thing that's happening today is going to bring something so amazing.

Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else's snakes can ever be as awful.

Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.

Ever since that night I've been on the road Travelling and trying to forget That awful night I lost all my friends I see their faces yet.

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.

Everything always gets crazy at the end. You just have to keep going, regardless of how awful it gets. So that's what I do.

Even by rock star standards, I was pretty awful.

Figure skaters have awful perceptions of hockey players.

For all the talk about the bitterness and the partisanship in American politics, is it really that bitter and partisan? Think of American history. Think of Joseph McCarthy. Think of the New Left. Think of [George] McGovern. Think of [Ronald] Reagan. Think of George Wallace. We've had an awful lot of real extremism on both wings.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

Fascism: awful stench of saw and axe.

For someone who doesn't even like love stories, I've played an awful lot of lovers.