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• In March I had a minor heart attack while I was vacationing in Australia. it scared me, but it was nothing compared to what someone had in store for me down the road.

  Richard Pryor

  Heart, Australia, March

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• I'd always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.

  Billy Connolly

  People, Found, Cases

  "Billy Connolly: The lost years" by Pamela Stephenson, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2001.

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• As long as your abuser has you scared, you will stay in the cycle of abuse. Thinking of solutions helps you to escape.

  Roseanne Barr

  Thinking, Long, Abuse

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• I've always thought the best way to teach a kid not to be scared of the dark is to fill his daylight hours with as much horror as possible.

  Emo Philips

  Kids, Dark, Daylight

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• I think people are a little bit intimidated by me. You know, I'm not exactly a wilting flower, so I think they're a little bit scared of me sometimes.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Flower, Thinking, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I went up to his [Hank Jones'] house and there were four guys there: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max Roach. Not a bad place to be. Scared shitless, but a nice place to be on my second day in New York.

  Ray Brown

  New York, Nice, House

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• When you make a film, you're creating the illusion of a natural experience. But everything is created on purpose. If I want you to be scared, I'm trying to scare you. If I want you to cry, I'm trying to make you sad. If I want you to laugh, I'm trying make you laugh. So, how I get you there is what makes it interesting, because I also want it to feel seamless, and not forced. That kind of constant experimentation is just fun to explore, and I love it.

  Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

  Fun, Creating, Laughing

  Source: aalbc.com

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• There's even more stuff that I'd like to release, but I'm scared to, that's really, um, nerdy... not nerdy in a good way. Like, silly.

  Liz Phair

  Silly, Stuff, Way

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• The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a wonderful piece of work.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Ghost Stories, Pieces

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• I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

  Ben Stein

  Ill, Getting Old

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• I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.

  Eddie Marsan

  Glasses, People, Age

  "Eddie Marsan: 'I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience'". Interview with Cath Clarke, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2011.

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• I can hardly thinke there was any scared into Heaven; they go the surest way to Heaven who would serve God without a Hell; other Mercenaries, that crouch unto Him in feare of Hell, though they terme themselves servants, are indeed but the slaves of the Almighty.

  Thomas Browne

  Heaven, Way, Hell

  Sir Thomas Browne (2012). “Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall”, p.58, New York Review of Books

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• Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

  Alan Watts

  Running, Pain, Fighting

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• I think it was seen as a symptom that the Chinese leadership may be really scared about their economy.Why would you want to depend more on exports if you're a country that has a stated policy of relying less on exports and more on consumer spending, domestic spending?

  David Wessel

  Country, Thinking, Chinese

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Seriously, if I switched on the TV and they were showing live footage of an army of fire-breathing pterodactyls machine-gunning people to death on the streets of London right outside my door, I'd be horrified, but not entirely surprised, nor any more scared than I already am. I'd probably just shrug and wait for them to smash the door down. We're so screwed, I don't even know what to worry about first.

  Charlie Brooker

  Army, Fire, Doors

  "Supposing... We invent some decoy doomsday scenarios" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2006.

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• I decided to take a leap of faith and go into business for myself. I'm scared to death!

  Kam Williams

  Leap Of Faith, Leap, Decided

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach myself how to do it.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Teach, Feels

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• I heard that the guy who invented the Jehovah's Witnesses was a Mason.That kind of turned me off, because when something's mysterious, all you can do is be scared of it. "He's a Mason? Ugh. It must be evil!" I didn't know much about it, so I was scared. Now I actually admire those guys - they're pretty talented. They founded a lot of the world that we look at today.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Evil, Guy, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful.

  Desmond Tutu

  Country, Powerful, People

  "Apartheid in the Holy Land" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2002.

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• I'd like to jump out of an airplane, but I'm very scared of that. I will have to do it.

  Cedric Gervais

  Airplane

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• There were so many Cuban-Americans upset that we were going to Cuba and I was curious to see why they were so angry, and anti-Castro. I found out as soon as we got there. The people were treated terrible. The conditions were terrible. I can see why people risk their lives and limbs to get out. (Fidel Castro) lives like a king and won't help anybody, and has everybody scared to death. Nobody lives a normal life. It was still a good experience, but I thought we should just play that one game.

  Albert Belle

  Kings, Games, Play

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• It's good to try stuff. I wrote a book that I threw away, and I think I just wrote it so I could try stuff in it and not be scared

  Jami Attenberg

  Book, Thinking, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's a funny thing because it's what the people say when they come across a ghost situation is that it does freak you out, but then you do get over it - for some reason you're not scared to come across it again.

  Rhys Darby

  Funny Things, People, Doe

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm very well off but I can stay with normal people. I can do a super-luxury life, but I can do a very normal life and I'm not scared.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Luxury, People, Normal

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People treat you according to your energy or what you put out there, so what I put out there is very open. I'm not paranoid or scared, I'm open. That's how I treat people, with respect and speak truthfully.

  Ziggy Marley

  People, Energy, Speak

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

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