A Quote by Ron Suskind

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying

Ron Suskind

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Ron Suskind
American - Journalist
Born: November 20, 1959

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The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.

Lea Thompson

You can't be entirely unguarded in politics. Even appearing to be unguarded is as much a facade as a reality.

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This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.

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Diplo

If you look at UFC champions: BJ Penn - terrifying! GSP - terrifying! Anderson Silva - terrifying! But I'm not terrifying.

Forrest Griffin

You work on a play or movie, you have the whole script, so you're constructing a performance based on the bible that you have. In TV, you don't, so to actually invest in that and let that be the exciting part is terrifying and certainly leaves room for mistakes, looking back.

Cory Michael Smith

When you get a character that you're just starting to work on, it's the most exciting and most terrifying feeling because you have endless hours of diving in, researching, reading, and decision-making.

Chris Wood

While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony serves as a retreat from an emotional engagement that you're overly concerned is uncool, that's a failure of nerve.

Steve Erickson

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Eve Ensler

I wish, mainly, that I could have a job and work all the time and also not have to leave my kids. If there was a way to clone myself and be at every parent-teacher meeting and be there to put my kids to bed every single night and also star on Broadway, that's what I would do.

Renee Elise Goldsberry

I used to get so many letters from students about the ending of 'Pro Femina.' So I had a stamp made that said 'irony, irony, irony' to put on a postcard and mail it back.

Carolyn Kizer

In India, whichever language you write in, the possibility of people not understanding irony or not understanding [remains there]. This as a writer is most terrifying!

Arundhati Roy

Stepping away from Fun. was both exciting and terrifying.

Jack Antonoff

A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face value, which is to me terrifying.