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  Kids who go to normal school are so teenagery, so angsty.

  Jaden Smith

  Teenager, Kids, School

  "Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School Is Overrated". Interview with Su Wu, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. November 17, 2014.

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• All this angst, all this stuff we all feel, is just tied to making art. It's so ancient.

  Paul Beatty

  Art, Stuff, Ancient

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• Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Want, Human Condition, Purgatory

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado: A Novel”, p.208, Macmillan

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• I seemed to have spent the whole time either reading, which I loved, or laughing, which I love, or fooling about, which I loved. There was the usual teenage angst: "Nobody understands me" and "I'm the only genius in the world" and all that stuff. But that didn't get very deep.

  Philip Pullman

  Teenage, Reading, Laughing

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

  Jim Broadbent

  Pale

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. December 28, 2010.

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• People seemed to think, you get to a certain age or you get married or you, you're comfortable. And so now there's nothing to write about: that angst is gone. The youthful angst. And that just hasn't happened with me.

  Lucinda Williams

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.

  Paul McCartney

  Arrows, People, Suffering

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• My angst and my insecurity reflect the state's angst and insecurity. The state is scared too.

  Ai Weiwei

  Insecurity, Scared, States

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's funny because being comedic and happy and lighthearted is who I am as a person, so they're easier emotions for me to connect with. The challenge is accessing pain, angst, depression. . . It's more exciting because it gives me somewhere to go and allows me to tap into a part of myself that everyone can relate to.

  Lindsay Lohan

  Pain, Who I Am, Giving

  "Behind-the-Scenes with Lindsay Lohan". Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2009.

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• I don't think it's very difficult to bring a virginal, angst-ridden, hip-hop grunting white boy to the screen. Not that I have any experience with that. I don't know man. I understood where his head was at, because he was this 18-year-old cat that thought he was a man, but didn't really know what it meant to be a man.

  Josh Peck

  Cat, Boys, Men

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The majority of American writers today have chosen passive non-resistance to things as they are, producing sloughs of poetry about their personal angst and anomie, cascades of short stories and rivers of novels obsessed with the nuances of domestic relationships - suburban hanky-panky - chic boutique shopping mall literary soap opera. When they do speak out on matters of controversy they attack not the evils of our time but fellow writers who may insist on complaining.

  Edward Abbey

  Speaks Out, Shopping, Rivers

  Edward Abbey (1988). “One Life at a Time, Please”, p.172, Macmillan

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• Your desires are immense, almost infinite. Because of your desires life becomes a competition, and wherever there is competition, there is anxiety and angst; and at the end everybody is aware deep down there is death.

  Rajneesh

  Anxiety, Competition, Desire

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• I definitely still have ... angst but I also wrote some songs that say it's okay to love, now. I'm happy in my life, and it's a bit easier to write happy songs when you are actually happy.

  Miranda Lambert

  Song, Writing, Easier

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• the fact that they stole their whole shtick from Woody Guthrie and the coal-mining bards. While the alternative nation meows about personal fashion angst, the Appalachian nation still sings about unemployment.

  Jim Goad

  Fashion, Unemployment, Alternatives

  Jim Goad (1998). “The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies Hicks and White Trash Becames America's Scapegoats”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't know? you get so old and you sort of give up in some way. You've had your period of angst, your period of religious desperation, and you've arrived at a philosophical position where you don't need, or you can't bear, to look at it.

  John Updike

  Religious, Giving Up, Philosophical

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• The original concept of rock and roll... was supposed to be this young angst with mistakes and all. Four or five guys get together, get angry and that's really how it starts, and it's all this energy.

  Peter Frampton

  Mistake, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

  Walton Goggins

  Who I Am, Anxiety, Youth

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• There are lots of poster children for angst. But there aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl. But what about the people who are really not feeling that great? Why can't I get up in front of millions of people, as a person who represents my generation, and tell them that I'm angry? Who puts these limits on what my personality should be in public?

  Fiona Apple

  Girl, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And whatever their publicized angst over Saddam Hussein's 'weapons of mass destruction,' American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy. I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.

  Alan Greenspan

  War, Mass Destruction, Oil

  "The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World". Book by Alan Greenspan, 2007.

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• I don't want to be a man," said Jace. "I want to be an angst-ridden teenager who can't confront his own inner demons and takes it out verbally on other people instead." "Well," said Luke, "you're doing a fantastic job.

  Cassandra Clare

  Jobs, Teenager, Humor

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly about the weather, to encourage cliché, to uphold the virtues of average. You hand over the need to be understood and, in return, you get a bar of Normal soap. And you can wash in it and be daily reborn to a safe world of modest, enduring love or, at least, mild, well-mannered bonding.

  Julianna Baggott

  Love, Average, Hands

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• Given the final futility of our struggle, is the fleeting jolt of meaning that art gives us valuable? Or is the only value in passing the time as comfortable as possible? What should a story seek to emulate, Augustus? A ringing alarm? A call to arms? A morphine drip? Of course, like all interrogation of the universe, this line of inquiry inevitably reduces us to asking what it means to be human and whether—to borrow a phrase from the angst-encumbered sixteeen-year-olds you no doubt revile—there is a point to it all.

  John Green

  Art, Struggle, Mean

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• Love is ease, love is comfort, love is support and respect. Love is not punishing or controlling. Love lets you grow and breathe. Love's passion is only good passion -- swirling-leaves-on-a-fall-day passion, a-sky-full-of-magnificent-stars passion -- not angst and anxiety. Love is not hurt and harm. Love is never unsafe. Love is sleeping like puzzle pieces. It's your own garden you protect; it's a field of wildflowers you move about in both freely and together.

  Deb Caletti

  Hurt, Stars, Moving

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• All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

  Thomas Sowell

  Political, Pay, Moral

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• Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to look at this? After all, angst of these dimensions is a luxury item. You need to be well fed, clothes, and housed to have time for this much self-pity.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Self, Luxury, Clothes

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