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" Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. "

Shirley MacLaine

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" You see, what is my purpose of performance artist is to stage certain difficulties and stage the fear the primordial fear of pain, of dying, all of which we have in our lives, and then stage them in front of audience and go through them and tell the audience, 'I'm your mirror; if I can do this in my life, you can do it in yours.' "

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" The unsaid is a powerful tool. It invites the reader into the narrative, filling in gaps, interpreting silences and half-finished sentences, and seeing the hidden fear in someone's eye. "

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

" When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation. "

Shirley MacLaine

" I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing. "

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" My mother and father were never frightened of anything. They always felt that they should go through life happily and without fear, and they did that. And it was a great boon to my brother and myself. "

John Cassavetes

" There's a long way to fall when you pretend that you're so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that's protected by fame or success. It's scary, and it's the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame. "

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Shirley MacLaine

" Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions. "

" My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself. "

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" We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. "

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" The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear. "

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" You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots. "

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Napoleon Bonaparte

" What we have most to fear is failure of the heart. "