I found, after the experience of making 'Shaun Of The Dead' and then returning to the blank page - because 'Shaun Of The Dead' was the first screenplay I ever wrote properly - the experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful.
I went to hospital and they gave me an MRI scan and thought it was a non-cancerous tumour, because I had bled in my pituitary gland. It was very painful, so they ended up delivering John early. That whole process was terrifying. All I cared about was John.
The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
I've been around the world and I've had bras made in different places, and each time I'm experiencing the same troubles: the painful shoulders, the underwire cutting into my flesh.
Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.
It is literally painful to watch Rick Perry as a candidate.
Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people.
I have a very clear vision, and I come from film, where director is God, so if there's a clash, it's painful.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.
Historically, the minority party in Congress votes against raising the debt limit, forcing the majority party to whip its members into casting politically painful votes in favor.
As you get older, the defeats become more painful. They definitely hurt more.
Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.
I feel like I've had a lot of painful situations that I intentionally delete from my memory.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
