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" Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me. "
James McAvoy
Powerful
Fear
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" Fear makes us feel our humanity. "
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" Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them. "
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" I think the most romantic thing you can do is just turn up. Turn up when it's difficult for you. Travel halfway around the world or just up the road. Whatever it is, just be there. "
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" Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it. "
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" Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another. "
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" If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me - I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction. "
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" I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life. "
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" I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear. "
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" Fear has its use but cowardice has none. "
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" Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way. "
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" I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little about him. "
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" National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood. "
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" To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. "
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" Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear. "
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