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• I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.

  Chris Evans

  America, Decision, Captains

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• Well, the first thing that clued me in to the fact that there was something really scary about breast cancer, way beyond the thought of dying, was coming across an ad in the newspaper for pink breast cancer teddy bears. I am not that afraid of dying, but I am terrified of dying with a pink teddy bear under my arm.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Cancer, Scary, Dying

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• I almost exclusively wear skinny jeans. I'm terrified of any other cut of denim.

  Lauren Conrad

  Cutting, Jeans, Denim

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• I just think there are a lot of celebrities who don't feel that they have a voice. A lot of actors come from a place of fear, and that's just a general statement about actors. You're terrified the casting director won't like you, you're terrified the producer won't like you, you're terrified the director won't like you, and on and on.

  George Clooney

  Thinking, Voice, Directors

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• A lot of parents today are terrified that something they say to their children might make them 'feel bad.' But, hey, if they've done something wrong, they should feel bad. Kids with a sense of responsibility, not entitlement, who know when to experience gratitude and humility, will be better at navigating the social shoals of college.

  Amy Chua

  Gratitude, Children, Kids

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• The only way to do news on television is not to be terrified of it.

  David Brinkley

  Television, Way, News

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

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• Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

  Sara Blakely

  Stage

  "Sara Blakely: a woman with a great grasp of figures" by Zoe Wood, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

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• There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist. You give Terrence Malick a movie like Transformers, and he's f***ed. There's no way for him to exist in that world... Lars Von Trier's dangerous. He scares me. And I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Going To Work

  "Shia LaBeouf vows to have real sex in movie" by Max Nicholson, www.ign.com. August 20, 2012.

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• When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.

  Taylor Lautner

  Crazy, Nice, Swimming

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• Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.

  Eli Roth

  Racist

  Interview with Elisa Osegueda, www.fandango.com. May 8, 2013.

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• I lived to be on stage, and I'm terrified. Terrified before every show.

  Joan Rivers

  Stage, Shows

  "With Age, Joan Rivers Learned To Say Anything: 'It Has Freed Me Totally'". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. September 5, 2014.

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• I was quite the spoiled brat. I have quite a temper, obviously inherited from my father, and I became very good at ordering everyone around. I was the princess; the staff were absolutely terrified of me.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Father, Princess, Spoiled

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• I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspirational, Life, Courage

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.56, Infobase Publishing

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• I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

  Bill Nighy

  People, Stage, Walks

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• I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.

  Stevie Nicks

  Fearless, Wells, I Am Pretty

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• I've gone skydiving twice. I was terrified about doing it, but I wanted to overcome that. The first time, I did it with my parents and I remember that they had already both jumped out, and suddenly it was my turn. And I thought, 'Well, I don't want to be an orphan,' so I guess I have no choice, and I jumped out of the plane.

  Mandy Moore

  Choices, Parent, Overcoming

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• How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by yourself forever and not meaning anything to the world?

  John Green

  Forever, World, Left Behind

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.125, Penguin

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• It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind.

  Victoria Alexander

  Mind, Height, Plunge

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• People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

  Sienna Miller

  People, Want, Sides

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• In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.

  Danica McKellar

  Teacher, Home, School

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• The first play I did was 'Philadelphia Here I Come.' Can you imagine that? I am 37 years old I am doing my second professional play and I am on stage with John Malkovich. Joan Allen, Laurie Metcalf and Gary Sinise. One huge name after another. I was terrified and petrified, could hardly get a word out of my mouth.

  John Mahoney

  Philadelphia, Years, Play

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• I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

  Audre Lorde

  Fear, Women, Writing

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.90, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

  Laura Linney

  Silence, Entertainment, Industry

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• I'm fiercely independent, but I'm also terrified of being alone.

  Adam Levine

  Independent

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• I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.

  Antonio Banderas

  Daughter, Mother, Guy

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