Pressure knocks at my doorA clock ticks and demands its dueThe lava burns from the floorBut not in a game like it used to.So little time to figure it all outSo many distractions to prevent successI’m in a dark forest with no path or routeBut this internal fire knows no rest.

~ Justin Wetch

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Sleepless nightsSpent looking at the ceilingSearching in those etched patternsFor some sort of adhesiveTo glue together the broken piecesOf a soul crushedBy the weight of the fact thatLife is profoundly sad.

~ Justin Wetch

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Like a handprint in cementAn indelible mark has been leftMy identity has been bentAt the point where your fingers pressed.Some people leave their marksAll over your identity,Some leave beautiful artAnd others graffiti obscenities.

~ Justin Wetch

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I wish I could see butterflies burst from cocoonsWithout tempering my amazementKnowing all beauty eventually dies.

~ Justin Wetch

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I'm a big fan of Courtney Love. I love Hole and I love her acting and I love her attitude. I just hope I never meet her in a dark alley.

~ Jeff Ross

Jeff Ross Love Hope Dark

For 'Fright Night,' we really want to convey the fun attitude of the movie and show the intensity of Colin Farrell as a predator. He's not a brooding vampire - he's dark and dangerous.

~ Stacey Snider

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Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.

~ Bill Mauldin

Bill Mauldin Dark Living Soldiers

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

~ George Chakiris

George Chakiris Love Moment Dark

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

~ Anne Lamott

Anne Lamott Work Dark

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

~ Ivo Andrić

Ivo Andrić Fear Space Dark

No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.

~ Josh Radnor

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Some people ask why people would go into a dark room to be scared. I say they are already scared, and they need to have that fear manipulated and massaged. I think of horror movies as the disturbed dreams of a society.

~ Wes Craven

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I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

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I think a sense of humor will help get a girl out of a dark place.

~ Twyla Tharp

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I have a very dark sense of humor. I swear. I have a very playful relationship with Jesus.

~ Anne Lamott

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My humor is traced with dark - I've got dark patches all over the place.

~ Albert Brooks

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Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

~ Margaret Cho

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'War on Everyone,' I think... the script was hilarious to me, but it's very dark, dark humor. It's super dark.

~ Michael Pena

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When you finish a drama, you go, 'I can't wait to do a comedy.' When you finish a comedy, you go, 'I want to do a dramedy, dark humor.'

~ Michael Pena

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I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor.

~ Alan Moore

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Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

~ Ice Cube

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I quite like dark humor.

~ Marina And The Diamonds

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I'm a pretty tenacious person; I get that from my mom. So sometimes, I use dark humor. I can't take myself too seriously.

~ Art Alexakis

Art Alexakis Myself Mom Dark

Humor is the only way to tell a story. Especially the dark ones.

~ Lisa Lutz

Lisa Lutz Dark Story Way

I'm looking at some comedic horror films because I have often been accused of being too dark. I'm not dark, not compared with 'Saw' or anything like that. So I'm looking at live-action horror films, but not slasher ones - ones that have humor and maybe some social satire.

~ Henry Selick

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I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I've been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity - even better, a TV.

~ Andrea Seigel

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If you don't infuse humor into a subject matter, no matter how dark, the audience can't accept the message of a film. It closes them down. Humor can open them up.

~ Theodore Melfi

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I have a dark sense of humor.

~ Olivia Munn

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I have a very dark sense of humor.

~ Andy Dick

Andy Dick Dark Sense Of Humor Sense

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

~ Seth Grahame-Smith

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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.

~ Dan Castellaneta

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I love 'Dexter.' The dark sense of humor is wonderful.

~ Stephen J. Cannell

Stephen J. Cannell Love Dark Sense Of Humor

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

~ Bill Forsyth

Bill Forsyth Life Problems Dark

We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.

~ Black Kettle

Black Kettle Sky Dark Cloud

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

~ A. S. Byatt

A. S. Byatt World Dark Hunger

I think letting babies cry it out is barbaric. Why would parenting stop when it's dark outside? You can't expect a baby to know that he's supposed to sleep just because we want to go to bed.

~ Holly Combs

Holly Combs Sleep Baby Dark

I'm more into the Spawn toys. They're really cool. They're coming out with a Techno Spawn series and another series, The Dark Ages, which are really cool.

~ Jason Mewes

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My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.

~ Michael Caine

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It's pretty cool that artists like Flo Rida and Bingo Players can be inspired to interpret a song like 'Piano in the Dark' in completely new genres. As an artist and writer, it's the highest compliment we can be paid.

~ Brenda Russell

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I don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We write music because it's an immediate form of communication. We're able to put on record what's happening in our times, and we want that message to be heard by the most amount of people.

~ Dave Sitek

Dave Sitek Music People Dark
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