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• When you're on stage singing, you're naked. Your voice is something very intimate, and that's why I'm scared every time before I perform. It doesn't matter if I'm singing for a king or a queen or the Pope, it's enough to be in front of anybody. I suffer, but I can't do anything about it.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Kings, Queens, Voice

  "This much I know: Andrea Bocelli" by Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2012.

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• I was taught that I cannot back down to anything. I was trained never to be scared.

  Ray Rice

  Taught

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• There's always elements of danger in New York but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.

  Madonna Ciccone

  New York, People, Elements

  "Madonna: 'I don't think people have to be aroused sexually by what you wear' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Kris Needs, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2012.

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• I'm not tough when it comes to people criticizing the people that I protect, and those are the actors. It makes them scared to do it again for another director.

  Lee Daniels

  People, Directors, Actors

  "Lee Daniels Makes it Personal". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 5, 2012.

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• All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous does not mean never being scared; it means acting as you know you must even though you are undeniably afraid.

  Desmond Tutu

  Fear, Mean, Acting

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times”, p.88, Random House

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• The Thing from Another World' was the first movie that really scared me.

  George A. Romero

  World, Firsts, Another World

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• If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared.

  Karl Pilkington

  Book, Years, Two

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

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• I broke down. I hid under the bed because I was afraid that somebody was going to come for me. I don’t know who that someone was but I was just so scared. Not a single person at any level of government took any note of me. No one checked to see if I had a place to live or food to eat, and at 14, I found myself basically on my own.

  Diane Guerrero

  Government, Bed, Levels

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was terrified to do 'G.I. Joe.' I had no idea how to do one of those movies. I was kind of scared. You know, if one of those doesn't work, it's a huge hit on your career. People are like, 'Well he couldn't make a $170 million movie work. I don't want him in my film.'

  Channing Tatum

  Careers, Ideas, People

  "Channing Tatum Interview DEAR JOHN, Plus Info on Dito Montiel’s SON OF NO ONE and THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 31, 2010.

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• I dreamed of becoming a scientist, in general, and a paleontologist, in particular, ever since the Tyrannosaurus skeleton awed and scared me.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Skeletons, Becoming, Scientist

  "Sept.10, 1941: Stephen Jay could born" Jess McNally, www.wired.com. September 10, 2010.

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• When I was a young man, I didn't think about having a family. My wife and I were too poor to have babies. Then all of a sudden, one came along and scared the hell out of us because we had no money. Once the baby arrives, you make do somehow. You fall in love with the baby and life adjusts itself. You find you don't need as much money as you thought. When that happens, you can ask the questions that should have come before the baby.

  Ray Bradbury

  Baby, Falling In Love, Parenting

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• I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.

  William Styron

  Writing, People, Finals

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

  Yoko Ono

  Way, Truth Comes Out, Courses

  "Yoko Ono: What I've Learned". Interview with Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. Decemeber 8, 2010.

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• The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

  Freeman Dyson

  Scare, Climate, Facts

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• I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.

  Patricia Briggs

  School, Night, Long

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• There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  Stars, Hollywood, Paper

  "17 Questions With Jean-Claude Van Damme". Interview with Bertan Budak, www.askmen.com. February 13, 2009.

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• I'd never say I'll never have a facelift, but I'm way too scared of looking like a different person. I have no philosophical or political position on plastic surgery; I just don't want to look crazy. And I don't like not being able to tell how old someone is: It's creepy.

  Ellen Barkin

  Crazy, Philosophical, Political

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• Old age has got to start creeping up on me one day soon, and frankly I'm very scared. I don't want to be old. I've always felt so young. And I want to stay that way.

  David Niven

  Age, One Day, Want

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• Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  People, Trying, Research

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• The funny thing is most people don't approach me because they are scared, and that's fine, I want to keep it that way. But the thing is if you're not scared or get over it you learn that sometimes what you're scared of is really what you shouldn't be scared of.

  Rutger Hauer

  Funny Things, People, Want

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• Jaws, first time I saw it, I forgot I was in it. True. Totally forgot, and got as scared as everybody else, and it's a great movie.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Saws, Firsts, First Time

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 10, 2009.

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• As much as they deny it, I think people want to be scared. It's a phenomenon, why people want to be scared when there is so much violence and craziness in the world. People still really enjoy being scared. It's a conundrum to me. It's hard to explain. It's an unconscious thing, really, why people like that so much.

  Dylan McDermott

  Thinking, People, World

  "Dylan McDermott Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, His New Role on the Show, Why the Show Resonates with Viewers and Returning for Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 20, 2012.

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• I'm very scared of water. When you don't see the water... I imagine monsters - stupid things.

  Eva Green

  Stupid, Water, Monsters

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• Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!

  Ted Turner

  Cancer, Guy, Trying

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• I wouldn't be surprised or shocked if, 10 years from now or 20 years from now, Muslims or Christians or non-Jews will be scared to reveal their religion, and they will be walking without - just, you know, hiding their religion. And that's where Israel is heading to.

  Tamer Nafar

  Christian, Israel, Years

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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