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• I did Shakespeare in college and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.'

  Kristoffer Polaha

  Men, College, Mad

  "Q&A – Kristoffer Polaha (Carlton Hanson, Francine’s Husband)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com. November 2011.

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• So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work, and materials in whizzing off to the moon to discover, as astronomers knew before, that it was just a dreary slag heap. This is the true, original and scientifically etymological meaning of being lunatics. Crying for the moon.

  Alan Watts

  Sunset, Moon, Night

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown: A Mountain Journal”, p.116, Vintage

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• Nerves are natural, it means you're ready to face a challenge and perform.

  Dan Carter

  Mean, Mma, Challenges

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• The nerves are good because that keeps you from relaxing too much and getting caught off guard.

  Myles Jury

  Mma, Too Much, Caught

  "Mentally ready: UFC 155 lightweight Myles Jury interview exclusive with MMAmania.com". Interview with Brian Hemminger, www.mmamania.com. December 27, 2012.

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• Before the civil war, Pottibakia was a normal member of the Comity of Nations. She erected tariff walls, broke treaties, persecuted minorities, obstructed at conferences unless she was convinced there was no danger of a satisfactory solution; then she strained every nerve in the cause of peace.

  E. M. Forster

  Wall, War, Minorities

  "The Life to Come (and Other Stories)". Book by E. M. Forster, 1972.

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• Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance.

  William John Locke

  Sex, Ninety Nine, Soul

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• I made my career off posing in swimsuits and doing all the swimsuit issues and posters, but I will tell you that that little bit of material on an itsy-bitsy bikini - taking that off was very nerve-racking the first time.

  Cindy Margolis

  Careers, Issues, Littles

  "Cindy Margolis Bares All For Playboy". Associated Press Interview, www.cbsnews.com. October 31, 2006.

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• What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable. And I would vary Yeats's axiom so as to say: no man can read fully, can answer answeringly to the aesthetic, whose "nerve and blood" are at peace in sceptical rationality, are now at home in immanence and verification. We must read as if.

  George Steiner

  Home, Creativity, Men

  George Steiner (2010). “Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?”, p.264, Faber & Faber

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• I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.

  Rose Leslie

  Thinking, Doe, Helping

  "The Honeymooner". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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• See with the eyes of love, / Hear with the ears of love / Work with the hands of love, / Think thoughts of love / Feel love in every nerve.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Nov 27, 2015

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• What nerve. Not even a modicum of originality.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Originality

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• I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through the center of American life.

  Norman Mailer

  Freedom, Feelings, Intellectual

  "Mailer Tells a Lot. Not All, but a Lot.; His Longest Love Affair Is With the U.S." by Bernard Weinraub, www.nytimes.com. October 4, 2000.

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• This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds there is perhaps even more that grates on our nerves.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Thinking, Anxiety, Mind

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• Liberty is a harsh mistress. You cannot pick and choose what you like and dislike about her. Liberty will not change her principles for you, no matter how much you claim to love her. She will stand fast in her demands for total acceptance. If you can't receive her, she will recognize you as a false lover and leave you. And when you hear that door slam, it will take every tear in your eye, every ounce of blood in your veins, and all the nerve in your heart to win her back.

  William H. Masters

  Eye, Heart, Acceptance

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• While the nominal strength of a country is represented by its numbers and resources, this muscular development is dependent on the state of its internal organs and nerve-system - upon its stability of control, morale, and supply.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Country, Military, Numbers

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• Don't pressure yourself to target a market. Hit the mark instead. Pay homage to your own connection. Quantity flocks to quality and quality comes from purity. Purity wails. Integrity taps a nerve. Inspiration slips beneath the skin of yoru skin and turns disinterested strangers into warm-bodied kin.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Integrity, Inspiration, Skins

  Tama J. Kieves (2004). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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• A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.

  Renee Fleming

  Singers, Behavior, Bad Behavior

  "Gov. Walker on CPAC, record in Wisconsin; Rep. Scalise talks DHS funding fight". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 1, 2015.

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• Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Vanity, Opinion, Conceit

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• A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the nerves, heart, brain and eye of man.

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Eye, Men

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• The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.

  Edmund Burke

  Perseverance, Eye, Victory

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• If people don't like you, it doesn't matter how much uniqueness, nerve or talent you have!

  Manila Luzon

  People, Matter, Talent

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation, or nerve activity. It is a ceaseless process, as constant as the turning of the earth on its axis. Man can neither duplicate nor imitate nor provide a substitute for the process. All schools of healing are frauds.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Art, Healing, School

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• Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.

  Akon

  Voice, Body, Way

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. November 12, 2006.

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• Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict between a stimulus and the whole individual.

  Rene Leriche

  Pain, Simple, Conflict

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• I played lead guitar in a band called The Federal Duck, which is the kind of name that was popular in the '60s as a result of controlled substances being in widespread use. Back then, there were no restrictions, in terms of talent, on who could make an album, so we made one, and it sounds like a group of people who have been given powerful but unfamiliar instruments as a therapy for a degenerative nerve disease.

  Dave Barry

  Powerful, Guitar, Names

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