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• On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

  Charles Stanley

  Morning, Sunday, Waiting

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• It's unthinkable not to love - you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Love, Breakdown, Unthinkable

  The Observer Interview, 1990.

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• Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.

  David Foreman

  Cancer, Brain, Environmental

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• I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.

  Peter Kay

  Thinking, Animal, Ideas

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• We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

  Amy Tan

  People, Half, Firsts

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• It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.

  Julie Benz

  Auditions, Get Real

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• "Rednecks" always made me nervous to play, but I'm glad I wrote it and I continue to play it. It's just that the language is so rough.

  Randy Newman

  Redneck, Play, Language

  "My Life Is Good". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 30, 2011.

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• I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women.

  Liev Schreiber

  Beautiful, People, Beautiful Women

  "Salt's Liev Schreiber On Getting Over His Sexual Tension With Angelina Jolie". Interview with Katey Rich, www.cinemablend.com. 2011.

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  Before I die, I want to be somebody’s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.

  Andrea Gibson

  Inspirational, Broken Heart, Prayer

  Andrea Gibson (2018). “Take Me With You”, p.64, Penguin

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• I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

  Adele

  Self Esteem, Believe, Grandma

  "Adele: the girl with the mighty mouth". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2011.

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• If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.

  Hale Irwin

  Sports, Should Have, Expectations

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• I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.

  Jensen Ackles

  Girl, Firsts, First Time

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• A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

  Earl Wilson

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Games

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• I'm nervous whenever I perform.

  Adele

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• When I do these interviews, I get really nervous. And when I get nervous, it comes off as mellow for some reason.

  Jack Johnson

  Interviews, Reason, Get Real

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Every time you go out there, you want to be a little nervous, have a little bit of butterflies in your stomach and get the juices flowing.

  Taryne Mowatt

  Inspirational, Softball, Butterfly

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• But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for the sensation, yet I realized it was possibly a natural progression of my evolving soul, and therefore I tried my best to embrace it.

  Garth Stein

  Soul, Care, Worried

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Oil, Nervous System

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• Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Movie, Gambling, Actors

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• If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sex, Thinking, Tears

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.15, Anchor

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• I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

  John F. Kennedy

  Sisterhood, Want, Empowering Women

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.797, Best Books on

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• Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

  Marquis de Sade

  Revenge, Passion, Ambition

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• I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.

  Vinton Cerf

  Teach, Stanford

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• If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.

  Miguel Cabrera

  Mistake, Games, Ifs

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• I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that's in real womanlike situations, where it's romanticized, I'm a little nervous about it.

  Kristen Bell

  Girl, Sarcastic, Real

  Interview with Caffeinated Clint, moviehole.net. April 08, 2008.

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