#shocking

I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#accepted #away #became #bestseller #book

I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old. ↗

— Joan Collins

#add #i #i think #leave #reading

There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#book #every #handled #however #important

It's really hard when a celebrity dies out of nowhere, 'cause it's very shocking... surreal. ↗

— Ashley Tisdale

#celebrity #dies #hard #nowhere #out

When all of a sudden, people say, 'Wow, you look nice,' and carry on, it's shocking. Really awkward. ↗

— Nikki Cox

#carry #look #nice #people #people say

People need to be peppered or even outraged occasionally. Our national comedy and drama is packed with earthy familiarity and honest vulgarity. Clean vulgarity can be very shocking and that, in my view, gives greater involvement. ↗

— Kenneth Williams

#comedy #drama #even #familiarity #gives

I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train. ↗

— Robbie Coltrane

#hard #i #i think #owls #shocking

Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is. ↗

— Bill Condon

#homosexual #how #kick #kinsey #lot

In fact that is the struggle that most Americans - As rich as this country is, most Americans are very limited in their interaction with the world, unless the world comes to us in a very shocking way. ↗

— Edwidge Danticat

#country #fact #in fact #interaction #limited

It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups. ↗

— Henry A. Wallace

#common #country #discrimination #economic #groups