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• The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.

  Jenny Lawson

  Writing, Trying, Explaining

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

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• In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

  Oren Peli

  Imagination, Anticipation, Ends

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• I've gotten to work with amazing people. I would say usually we get to a point before we get into the studio where there isn't that sense of anxiety or nervousness of who they are because I don't think it would be as productive in the studio if that was the case. But maybe meeting someone like Neil Young for the first time made me anxious.

  Rick Rubin

  Thinking, People, Meeting Someone

  "Dave Grohl Vs Rick Rubin". Interview with Tim Noakes, www.dazeddigital.com. March 21, 2013.

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• Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Dream, Stupid, Giving

  "Chloe Sevigny on Pauly D, Parodies, and More". Interview with Sam Bellikoff, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2011.

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• The anxiety does crawl up. The other night I was having panic attacks: 'Oh, my God, what's going to happen to me? Am I ever going to have another job?

  Chloe Sevigny

  Jobs, Night, Doe

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• To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement-what we glimpse in our dreams-our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.

  John Cheever

  Dream, Pain, Writing

  "From the Sixties—I" by John Cheever, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 1991.

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• Every tomorrow has two handles we can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

  J.A. Konrath

  Two, Complaining, Tomorrow

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• You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Book, Writing

  Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

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• I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.

  Zoe Saldana

  Kids, Pressure, Rooms

  "Zoe Saldana confirms she's having twins with cutest hint" by Marc Malkin, www.today.com. October 02, 2014.

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• As far as the anxiety, I have no idea about it. I don't feel like I have any nervousness out there. I'm just a guy who really cares about being competitive and that's the bottom line.

  Dontrelle Willis

  Ideas, Guy, Care

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• I think people with anxiety do different things during different years, and for me, I waded through my anxiety during the last two years with men, and flirting, and dating, and this thing and that thing, and so that's going to stop, and that has stopped.

  Jen Kirkman

  Thinking, Years, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.

  Smiley Blanton

  Worry, Definitions, Modern

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• Don't fight with the pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

  Edmund Vance Cooke

  Sleep, Fighting, Insomnia

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• Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events we experience in dreams are real; when we experience feelings, say, anxiety or ecstasy, in dreams, we really do feel anxious or ecstatic at the time.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Real, Feelings

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• A lot of what I do as a showrunner is anxiety control. People get nervous when they don't know what's going on, so a big part of my job is making sure everyone has all of the information all of the time.

  Glen Mazzara

  Jobs, People, Information

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• Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.

  Ricky Williams

  Kind, Wells, Convinced

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• I was about to meet Beyonce, and I had a full-blown anxiety attack. Then she popped in looking gorgeous, and said, "You're amazing! When I listen to you I feel like I'm listening to God."

  Adele

  Listening, Gorgeous, You Re Amazing

  "Adele Opens Up About Her Inspirations, Looks and Stage Fright". Interview with Toure, www.rollingstone.com. April 28, 2011.

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• My fears and anxieties throughout my whole life have been slowly squeezing my voice.

  Shania Twain

  Voice, Squeezing, Whole Life

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

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• Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

  Dick Cavett

  Strong, Ego, Born

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.239, Henry Holt and Company

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• The other matter to which we beg leave to refer in candor has been the anxiety shown for the Constitution and civil liber­ties because of alleged dictatorial, impatient and vindictive tendencies on our part. This concern is without basis in fact.

  Diosdado Macapagal

  Ties, Matter, Facts

  Diosdado Macapagal (1964). “New Hope for the Common Man: Speeches and Statements of President Diosado Macapagal”

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• Neocons do not feel that kind of alarm or anxiety about the growth of the state in the past century, seeing it as natural, indeed inevitable ... People have always preferred strong government to weak government, although they certainly have no liking for anything that smacks of overly intrusive government.

  Irving Kristol

  Strong, Past, Government

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• The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Giving, Anticipation, Ifs

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.34, New World Library

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• I'm a firm believer in anxiety and the power of negative thinking.

  Gertrude Berg

  Thinking, Negative, Needs

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• When you meet your 'soul mate' you'll feel calm. No anxiety, No agitation.

  Monica Drake

  Soul, Agitation, Calm

  Monica Drake (2013). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.40, Hawthorne Books

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• Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.

  Robert E. Sherwood

  Upholstery, Anxious, Seats

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