Fright Quotes - Page 7

• And my wrist froze STAGE FRIGHT

  Nicki Minaj

  Bragging, Stage, Wrists

  Song: I Aint Thru, Album: Gold

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• But if you miss it, you will next be confronted with the angry deities, ... threatening you and barring your passage ... because you turned a deaf ear to the saving truths of religion. All these forms are strange to you, ... they terrify you, ... and yet it is you who have created them. Do not give in to your fright, ... flee them not! They are but ... the contents of your own mind... If at this point you should manage to understand that, ... and you will find yourself in a paradise among the angels.

  Gautama Buddha

  Book, Angel, Giving

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• The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

  William Hurt

  Technique, Energy, Stage

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• Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

  Ned Rorem

  Art, Vanity, Views

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour of midnight must be near... So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away: I will go down to the chapel and pray.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Rain, Sleep

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Golden Legend: Iv. The Road To Hirschau”

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• The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Gun, Power, Design

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• I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.

  Al Yankovic

  Running, Animal, Light

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• Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.

  Neil Young

  Horse, Heart, Dark

  Song: Tell Me Why-live

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• People die of fright and live of confidence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fear, People, Dies

  Henry David Thoreau (1962). “The journal of Henry D. Thoreau”

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• The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

  Alain Badiou

  Destiny, Encounters, Transition

  "Alain Badiou: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a cow a good fright, entangle a Yorkshire terrier for life, and is nasty stuff made by greedy men.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.

  Tim Ferriss

  Sports, Language, Excellent

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• No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Fear, Mood, Pleasure

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• He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened.

  Mary Balogh

  Blue, Sky, Heaven

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• His heart is a desert island.... The whole scope, the whole energy of his mind surround and protect him; his depths isolate him and guard him against the truth. He flatters himself that he is entirely alone there.... Patience, dear lady. Perhaps, one day, he will discover some footprint on the sand.... What holy and happy terror, what salutary fright, once he recognizes in that pure sign of grace that his island is mysteriously inhabited!

  Paul Valery

  Heart, Islands, Grace

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• When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march up angrily and remain facing ours for a long time without either joining battle or removing demands, the situation is one that requires great vigilance and circumspection. To begin by bluster, but afterward to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Numbers

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• ['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably couldn't now, is that I didn't have any sense that anyone would hear it. I started writing the song while I was in London...and I was totally unknown.... So I assumed that they would never be heard. I could just write or say anything I wanted. Now I'm very aware, and I have to deal with my stage fright and my anxiety about people examining or judging it. The idea that people will pass judgment on it is not a useful thought.

  James Taylor

  Song, Rain, Writing

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• I think you need humour and a sense of fun, which is what I try to bring to my books to leaven the danger and action. The ones that really transcend the genre always have a great laugh in them, such as 'Fright Night,' 'Lost Boys,' 'American Werewolf in London' - just to name a few.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fun, Book, Thinking

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• I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.

  Lydia Davis

  Teaching, Wish, Anecdotes

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• As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

  Britt Ekland

  Wings, Agony, Waiting

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• The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.

  Britt Ekland

  Ideas, Theatre, Stage

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• People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."

  Adam Duritz

  People, Stage, Ask Me

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2014.

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• I have never had one moment of stage fright and performing has always been a huge thrill and source of enjoyment for me. It's part of my personality.

  Shakira

  Personality, Thrill, Moments

  Source: www.viva-press.com

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• There's kind of like that fright and excitement all at the same time when you first see someone of his stature. Where its literally, "Oh my God, I can't believe I'm in the room with Sylvester Stallone." He disarms you. He lets you know when he talks to you, he speaks clearly, he'll make you laugh and he's very kind and warm hearted.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Believe, Laughing, Rooms

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I'm a great self-doubter. I constantly need to prove myself to myself. I've never run to heroin or alcohol to hide that. I always have to deal with it. Stage fright is always going to be there. I have nightmares about bad gigs.

  John Lydon

  Running, Self, Alcohol

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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