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• I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. I got to sit down and write some songs with him, and that was pretty heavy. I listened to Our Lady Peace growing up. It got me through the teenage angst.

  David Cook

  Song, Growing Up, Teenage

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• To will the obligatory in relation to death is to fall in line with the major immutable cycles of Nature, especially human nature, and to understand that (whether or not there is a purpose or meaning to life or a life of the spirit beyond the life of the body) no one, absolutely no one, escapes being finite and mortal. And knowing this, and then to accept it, to will it, and not to be in an unnecessary state of angst or rebellion or terror over it.

  Edwin S. Shneidman

  Fall, Knowing, Purpose

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• If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then it’s really finished as a force for grappling with the world.

  J. M. Ledgard

  Class, Fiction, World

  "'There Is Another World in Our World': A Conversation with J. M. Ledgard" by Philip Gourevitch, www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2013.

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• Boy meets girl. Boy marries girl. Boy and girl angst over which family they visit at Thanksgiving and which one in December and whether or not it's best to serve turkey or goose for the family feast. When first faced with the reality that the family you married into does things differently, the warmth of tradition can take on a chill.

  Marge M. Kennedy

  Girl, Boys, Reality

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• Among people I have met, the few whom I would term “great” all share a kind of unquestioned, fierce dedication; an utter lack of doubt about the value of their activities (or at least an internal impulse that drives through any such angst); and above all, a capacity to work (or at least to be mentally alert for unexpected insights) at every available moment of every day of their lives.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Life, Work, Dedication

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• You look out into the audience and you see so much joy on people's faces. You make eye contact with people who are almost crying because they can't believe they're seeing the Rumours five back again, they can't believe their eyes. It's almost like a family reunion on stage, there's no angst, there's no animosity, there's just tremendous amount of friendship.

  Christine McVie

  Believe, Eye, People

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• As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.

  C. J. Box

  Children, Joy, Stories

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• War is big business. It's a lot of money going to and fro, and unfortunately a lot of angst, and a lot of fear, and a lot of doubt. And eventually a lot of wonderful people, like soldiers, like men and women that are out there trying to do the best they can, they come back being wounded on many levels.

  Jon Anderson

  War, Men, People

  "Interview with former Yes front man Jon Anderson (Part One)". examiner.com, January 27, 2011.

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• In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Children, Play, Parent

  "Barnes & Noble interview with Khaled Hosseini". Interview with James Mustich, www.csmonitor.com. November 24, 2008.

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• In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us. I often think that all I want to do now is to avoid suicide, accidental or otherwise. Other than that, I think living on the edge is what drives my work and me beyond a certain point. The artist lives with anxiety. When you finally reach a plateau of achievement, there comes a new anxiety - the hunger to push on still further. That angst is what makes you go forward.

  Beverly Pepper

  Suicide, Art, Thinking

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• It is phenomenal how fast a little toot of smack will take away the agony of withdrawal and most other kinds of pain. What it cannot take away it makes meaningless. You may still have a broken arm, but somehow it doesn't matter so much. The same is true for angst and anxiety. It cancels pain so hidden that you were unaware of its existence until it disappeared.

  Edward Bunker

  Pain, Agony, Broken

  Edward Bunker (2012). “Mr Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade”, p.261, Oldcastle Books

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• Ive always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.

  Magda Apanowicz

  Growing Up, Moving, Character

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• Good Charlotte is anger management teen angst.

  Joel Madden

  Anger Management, Management, Charlotte

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• Indiana is a state dedicated to basketball. Basketball, soybeans, hogs and basketball. Berkeley, needless to say, is not nearly as athletic. Berkeley is dedicated to coffee, angst, potholes and coffee.

  Carolyn Jones

  Funny, Basketball, Coffee

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• When I talk about the pain and hardship of a scientist's life, I'm speaking of more than existential angst. Galileo's work was condemned by the Church; Madame Curie paid with her life, a victim of leukemia wrought by radiation poisoning. Too many of us develop cataracts. None of us gets enough sleep. Most of what we know about the universe we know thanks to a lot of guys (and ladies) who stayed up late at night.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Pain, Sleep, Night

  Leon M. Lederman, Dick Teresi (1993). “The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every time some new huckster of angst-ridden metaphor is appointed by Art Forum, the congregation genuflects, stroking the catalog like a handful of Rosary beads, and starts spreading that old gospel according to Hyperbole. No questions asked... And thus the bill of goods is sold, all along the line. An art historical snake, swallowing its own tale.

  Abe Ajay

  Art, Snakes, Historical

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• Sometimes the most interesting visual phenomena occur when you least expect it. Other times, you think youre getting something amazing and the photographs turn out to be boring and predictable. So I think thats why, a long time ago, I consciously tried to let go of artists angst, and instead just hope for the best and enjoy it. I love the journey as much as the destination. If I wasnt a photographer, Id still be a traveler.

  Michael Kenna

  Letting Go, Artist, Journey

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• It's thematic in my career, if you look at most of my choices. It is some level of exploration of maternal angst and maternal heroism.

  Vera Farmiga

  Careers, Choices, Heroism

  "Vera Farmiga and Paranormal Investigator Lorraine Warren Talk THE CONJURING, the Nature of Evil, Their Relationship, and More". Interview by Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. July 17, 2013.

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• If you're in the heyday of rock and roll and movies, and that's where I grew up. We didn't have to look for it. We didn't have to create angst. We didn't have to create desire. We didn't have to say, see we were screwed, my generation, because we wanted to be The Beatles or Elvis Presley. That ain't going to happen. So we always had this thing to reach for.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Desire

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with writing that comes about with acting. Writing - particularly when you're writing yourself, when it's you, when it's your life, you really can't hide.

  Molly Ringwald

  Writing, Long, Acting

  "Molly Ringwald’s Still Pretty in Pink". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2010.

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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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• Well, you know, there's depression and depression. What I mean by depression in my own case is that depression isn't just the blues. It's not just like I have a hangover in the weekend ... the girl didn't show up or something like that. It isn't that. It's not really depression, it's a kind of mental violence which stops you from functioning properly from one moment to the next. You lose something somewhere and suddenly you're gripped by a kind of angst of the heart and of the spirit.

  Leonard Cohen

  Girl, Hangover, Heart

  "Depression and Depression: Paul Krugman, Leonard Cohen and St. Paul" by Christopher Cocca, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2011.

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• Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when you have no other needs or worries, where your insides are calm, and everything you were ever restless about, anything that had ever given you angst, is quieted to stillness. No steel ball in your chest, no breathless fear. No blue numbness of nearly passing out, no nagging doubts of the backstage mind. All of that, forgotten. It is just rightness, so rare.

  Deb Caletti

  Blue, Numbness, Worry

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• When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst.

  Rob Sheffield

  Rocks, Years, Indie Rock

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.11, Penguin

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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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