Nervous Quotes - Page 17

• I get nervous before I conduct a concert, but then you just go out there and do it.

  George Benjamin

  Concerts

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I dislike that premise implies that a fiction writer is incapable of dreaming up stories that can bring readers to tears, that if you are lucky enough to be living a pretty sedate life ,as I am, you've got nothing worthy of writing about, that you're incapable of making a reader's gut wrench.Frankly, that's what makes readers nervous, the sorcery of you or me or any good fiction writer making up characters who feel like real people, of telling a story that feels true but isn't.

  Leslie Pietrzyk

  Dream, Real, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Personally, I hate waiking the red carpet. You are expected to conform to every single expectation. People will say, "Try as hard as you can not to sweat on the red carpet." Meanwhile you are super nervous, and there are tons of camera flashes, and people are screaming your name. It's not fun - not for me, at least!

  America Ferrera

  Fun, Hate, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think we can see violence in a whole range of realms. We certainly see it in the media, where extreme violence is now so pervasive that people barely blink when they see it, and certainly raise very few questions about what it means pedagogically and politically. Violence is the DNA, the nervous system of this system's body politic.

  Henry Giroux

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Being nervous, first of all, puts you at a distinct disadvantage, and if you've really prepared and if you've really thought through how to start the conversation, things start to fall into place. There are other things I get nervous about, but not that.

  David Remnick

  Fall, Fall Into Place

  Source: wwd.com

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• I have come to really love the sound of nervous laughter.

  Preet Bharara

  Laughter

  "Slush funds are an invitation to corruption: Bharara" by Kevin Sheehan, Jamie Schram, nypost.com. February 20, 2017.

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• What makes me smile is a movie where I feel like it is dangerous, or there's that fresh idea there. It's about learning and growing and trying new things and tinkering, all of those things that keep you excited. But if you're not nervous, if you're not on that boundary of the unknown, I don't think you're getting better. I think you're kind of sitting back, and I don't think you're advancing the form.

  Gore Verbinski

  Thinking, Get Better, Trying

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I was nervous during Radiohead, we thought that they would hate us. I think when we played in LA, one of the dudes from Entourage was in the audience, and that was kinda weird. If anyone would make me nervous it would be David Bowie, Neil Young, someone like that.

  Andrew VanWyngarden

  Hate, Thinking, Radiohead

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• The idea we have of prison is a scary place that also houses crazy people. And, to me, it was like, none of these guys were scary. They may have done things that are violent or scary, but these are not people that I feel nervous being around, and it feels like to me that we're wasting these men's lives in prison.

  W. Kamau Bell

  Crazy, People, House

  Source: www.theroot.com

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• I have this problem where I get incredibly, miserably nervous every single show. This is part of why touring is so exhausting for me. I have not gotten to a place where it's like, "All right, here's another." It just doesn't feel workaday, at all, yet. It's kind of killing me, being so nervous so many hours of the day. After the show - we try to end on an anthemic note, and I try and let that be decisive, and I will often come back out for an encore a cappella, and that's where I try and take leave from the feelings of the stage. Trying, after I do that, to return to my life.

  How to Dress Well

  Feelings, Trying, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I always look for is someone that really knew how to lean up against a bar, get a drink, sit on a barstool. When people are in bars they're relaxed. No real right angles - it's slow moves, it's slow conversations. You can tell a loud joke, but everyone's very relaxed. I never would pick somebody nervous or twitchy. If I found guys with beards, I'd ask them, don't trim the edges, don't go in and manicure yourself up. I always look for people that look like they're comfortable in their own skin, that wouldn't feel like it was the first time they were ever in a bar.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Real, Moving, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.

  James Earl Jones

  Thinking, People, Laughing

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• The mind and the body are inextricably entwined, and rarely are their inseparability clearer than when we're under some kind of mental pressure. The moment we start trying to learn a new skill, make a decision or otherwise think on our feet, our nervous system reacts - with accelerated pulse rate, increased respiration, even sweating.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Thinking, Skills, Feet

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• Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system. That is why a severed octopus arm may crawl on its own and even pick up food.

  Frans de Waal

  Octopus, Brain, Neurons

  "The Brains of the Animal Kingdom". www.wsj.com. March 22, 2013.

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• On the environment and climate change, I suspect that future generations will think there was too much timidity, too much fear of upsetting business. Basically, New Labour was very nervous about regulating business, or requiring it to do anything, even when there was a very clear social or environmental case for doing so.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Thinking, Upset, Environmental

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• Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more nervous and imaginative. He could imagine the effect of each blow that was aimed at him, and this weakened his defense. Wart was only an infuriated hurricane.

  T. H. White

  Blow, Winning, Defense

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.75, Penguin

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• I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Facts, Emotion

  Interview with Jim Meigs, Joe Pappalardo, www.popularmechanics.co.za. December 1, 2012.

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• You should go to work every day a little bit nervous.

  Alexa Von Tobel

  Fighting, Littles, Should

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• You’re probably thinking: Wait, you just charged in without a plan? But Annabeth and I had been fighting together for years. We knew each other’s abilities. We could anticipate each other’s moves. I might have felt awkward and nervous about being her boyfriend, but fighting with her? That came naturally. Hmm…that sounded wrong. Oh, well.

  Rick Riordan

  Moving, Fighting, Thinking

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• He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

  Dodie Smith

  Long, Insanity, May

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.345, St. Martin's Griffin

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• She would try picturing him in his underwear, but that was even more disturbing since all it did was make her hot and even more nervous… He had to be the only man alive who could pull off intimidating in his tighty-whities. God, what if all that massive hotness was commando?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, What If, Trying

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.475, Macmillan

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• Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially

  Veronica Roth

  Laughing, Asking, Tris

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• Unfortunately, the headlights of the car were bright enough for them to see Mae's outfit quite clearly. "Oh my God," said Nick, and shut his eyes. Jamie gave a small, nervous laugh. "What?" Mae demanded. "Alan told us that we were supposed to dress as we truly are!" "And you felt that what you truly are is a Christmas tree with too much tinsel." Nick grinned. "Huh.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Eye, Laughing, Car

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2009). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Evie was so nervous that she downed her cocktail in two stiff swigs, then refilled her glass. Henry arched an eyebrow. “A pro, I see.” “What else is there to do in Ohio?

  Libba Bray

  Glasses, Ohio, Eyebrows

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• Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.

  Luke Davies

  Wind, People, Joy

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