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I'll never forget the first time my family came to see me do stand-up, ... It was an awful bombing. It was like a damn terrorist attack. I was onstage in Washington, D.C., and the audience was talking. Some of them even turned their backs to me. I was paralyzed. I couldn't even move. I just kept talking until I heard my mother yell out, 'Wanda! Get off the stage!'

I know I'll be here at least through then. And there's an awful lot of shows that we booked for this season that I really want to see. As long as I'm here, I'm going to be coming to see shows.

I hit some awful shots. I still hit some awful shots. But at least they're a little better. The first week, the Golf Channel was all over me. I said, 'God, just leave me alone. Let me drown by myself.'

I have to say it looked like the keeper played the ball before the man but we have had some awful decisions against us this season so maybe it comes around.

In the long run, after knowing him for a long time, it's the best thing that could have happened because he would have been slightly like a vegetable and he wouldn't have liked that. It's awful to say it sometimes but it was a blessing.

In terms of the makeup of our overall team, we've got an awful lot of players who are thinking-type players. Eddie is in the category of a guy that's very passionate, is maybe a risking personality. You need those types of people along with the thinking, thoughtful players you have to make it all mesh.

If you're somebody who rents an awful lot of movies, this is potentially attractive.

I get an awful lot of people coming up and saying they went to school with me. There must have been 80,000 pupils at that school!

In fact, an awful lot of N.F.L. club owners have practically no influence on their players at all, simply because they're not full-time working owners.

I had done 'Mystic River' and 'The Woodsman' and they were both internalized characters, characters who could hold an awful lot inside, and I thought it might be cool to go back and do something kind of external and showy, ... I also have rarely played an entertainer, and certainly have rarely played a celebrity, so to tap into those two parts of my own personality, I thought, seemed like it might be kind of interesting.

If the July jobs report was bad news, at least it wasn't awful news,

If there is a silver lining in this awful cloud, it's that it's reminded Americans how vulnerable we are and why we have to end our dangerous addiction to foreign oil.

It has happened to us so many times this season. We didn't make our free throws, and there were an awful lot of odd plays that were right in our hands near the basket but couldn't come up with them. Those will cost you in a close game like this.

Being involved - even if only through passive ownership - in this steadfast city enhancement, which is relatively risk-free and without the awful baggage of other commercial activities' competitive pressures, is immensely interesting.

If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.

He?s shown us an awful lot. We?re excited he had a chance to wrestle here. He?s right there.

He's spending like a drunken sailor, and he's now taking what are essentially routine staff-issued documents and claiming they're legislative proposals on the table. It's another hypocritical attempt to distort his own record and make Marylanders forget about his awful record. Voters are smarter than that.

He's really confident when he pitches against them. When he's on, he's awful tough.

He's putting a marker down that an awful lot of his colleagues have been unwilling to do.

I don't think that I would characterize what's going on in Iran as a democratic system, ... I don't think I would say that it fits the principles that I've just indicated. I think there are an awful lot of people in Iran who feel that that small group of clerics that determine what takes place in that country is not their idea of how they want to live their lives.

I don't think I know enough about acting to direct. You need to be a slight megalomaniac, not where you want to take over the world, but where you want to make every single decision and the buck stops with you. It's an awful lot of stress.

I don't think my characters are all awful and horrible. There are reasons for their behaviour. I have to find what makes them human.

I don't think I see the world in terms of stupid or clever, but in terms of being able to get irony. There's some awful statistic about only 20 per cent of Americans being able to understand irony.

I don't react to criticism from outside the camp, I react to a pretty awful performance.

I don't know how to describe it except to say that what was once the beautiful and thriving city of New Orleans now looks more like a third world country, ... The living conditions for the injured, the sick and the survivors of Hurricane Katrina are disgusting. The stench is awful and the conditions are terrible, yet people hang on to life -- some ever so slight -- but they hang on.

I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

If your aims as a donor are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, but you can cause a great deal of damage.

Because of some of the things that we did, the way my players did it, an awful lot of basketball programs decided they wanted to try to be like that. That's probably the thing that I'm most happy about ? the impact that the players at Connecticut had on a lot of players that are playing today.

Charlie was terrific and had an awful lot of rebounds and Adam had some huge baskets down the stretch. This game tells us we can come back, but I like playing with a lead, myself.

He threw an awful lot of strikes - he really had everything working. That's one of his best games ever.

Everything seemed good, but I knew it had the potential to be awful.

I always see something for sure one time and then I make myself see it a second time. The second time is like, 'Okay, I'm not that bad. I'm not that horrible.' But the first time I just think I'm god-awful."

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

The stories I create are never as awful as reality.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?

You say something bad about Newsies and you have an awful lot of people to answer to.

My touchstone is just fear and anxiety and I know a lot about those two awful emotions.

It's pretty awful being told you're a racist.

I'm honest. It's the world that's awful.

Way down among Brazilians. Coffee beans grow by the billions. So they've got to find those extra cups to fill. They've got an awful lot of coffee in Brazil

Thrashing is not the most noticeably awful of disappointments. Not to have attempted is the genuine disappointment.

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.

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.

Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of graft and slime It don't prohibit worth a dime It's filled our land with vice and crime, Nevertheless, we're for it.

Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?

Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.

The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean.

Sometimes awful things have their own beauty.

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

The idea of enemies is awful it makes one stop remembering eternity and the fear of death. That is what enemies are. Possessions are the same as enemies only less so, they too make one forget eternity and the fear of death.

The video for 'Whatever' is kind of a documentary in a way. It's showing that love can last. Not just in your early 20s or your late 30s, but in your 50s, 60s and 70s. There's an awful myth out there that when you get married, love and lovemaking fade. It's not true.

I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.

Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

How awful is that hour when con, science stings.

And we need things in life that are exciting and inspiring. It can't just be about solving some awful problem. There have to be reasons to get up in the morning.

I suspected my homosexuality, but I'd never acted out on it because I was afraid of sex. It's awful to be afraid of sex.

When school friends would think about appearing on stage as the most frightening, the most awful, intimidating experience ever, I knew that it was something I could do.

If he's true to that perspective, I think we're going to find that monetary policy looks an awful lot like it did under Greenspan for the next several years.

I felt sick to my stomach actually. It kinda makes you feel awful bad that to think somebody could actually do it. To drive it off the wharf.

I don't think anybody thought that's where we'd be, so I feel like we've accomplished something. But we've got an awful long way to go. We have four road games during the second half (of district).

I am not prepared to go shuttling back and forth, ... I think that in contrast to other periods of American history, there are an awful lot of other issues that need tending.

I am ok. He is just such an awful awful pathetic person. I just (expletive) hate him, his I am the king attitude, his value system (or lack thereof), his anger, his meanness. I JUST HATE HIM!!!!

If design were reducible to a set of principles, wouldn't we find an awful lot of similar houses, gardens, cars, rooms? You'd have no variety.

I feel awful about it, because they're taking a very nationalist kind of feeling to it. 'Those rotten Americans again' ... I wouldn't want to take away from the rest of his life. But this part has touched my life and I have to speak out about it.

I don't want to say athletics drives applications. But our enrollment management people will say we're getting more and more applications and therefore can be more selective in choosing our freshman class. They believe an awful lot of that is due to the visibility and national exposure we receive from our athletic programs.

I don't want to take anything away from Portland because they did what they had to. But that was an awful performance. We should collectively be embarrassed.

I do remember when I was starting acting, going from one set to the next, with not much else going on in my life. And at the end of the day, you get back to your hotel room and just feel this awful loneliness, because the cameras have stopped rolling.

I could not help but think if we were to walk out now, we would see a lot more fellows like this young kid and hear a lot more awful stories about kids who were orphaned,

I could have spent years directing the rover at that site. There were five priority things that I'd still trade an awful lot to get.

I came rather late to film. I've done an awful lot of theater before - before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and - and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being.

I do an awful lot of appearances, and to have one person always grinding the same axe would not be a good idea.

He and Faron are on the same page an awful lot in practice.

He brings an awful lot of good, positive things to the table. We are very enthusiastic about him coming here and being the guy.

He probably had more than that. We probably had 15 or 16 blocks overall, and Douglas also made (Clinton) alter an awful lot of their shots.

GORGON, n.The Gorgon was a maiden bold Who turned to stone the Greeks of old That looked upon her awful brow. We dig them out of ruins now, And swear that workmanship so bad Proves all the ancient sculptors mad.

For the first time, we enter the year with more than 100 international players on the tour. We represent just about every continent and an awful lot of countries. For the first time that I can remember in women's sports, you can be who you are as long as you're good and you can be who you are and still be accepted.

That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.

You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

Their reward for enduring the awful experience was the right to tell people about it.

Hello, Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in awful discomfort. "Did I mention I'm resigning?

Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

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.

An awful lot of female celebrities are very beautiful whereas a lot of male celebrities are not so hot.

I was 17, and all I wanted to do was to get away from England and the awful, boring boarding schools I'd been going to there. The last one was taught by monks, and I couldn't wait to get out.

In this business actors who have Botox or surgery make you very aware of age. It's awful.

When I made Spartacus during the McCarthy Era, we were losing our freedom. It was an awful, awful way. McCarthy saw Communists everywhere, in every level of government and they concentrated on Hollywood and especially on Hollywood writers.

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

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.

I'm a very binary person in a bad way where it's like everything is either totally great or totally awful.

I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.

My friend Mercedes Pena made me get in touch with my emotions just before I had a breast cut off. Just as I suspected, they were awful. "How do you Latinas do this all the time in touch with your emotions?" I asked her. "That's why we take siestas," she replied.

The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn't really sure that I could better them - I don't know if I have bettered them.

I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.

Making the big shot wouldn't feel so good if missing it didn't feel so awful