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• I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.

  John Lydon

  Suffering, Wicked, Goes On

  "John Lydon: 'I'm fat, I'm 50 and I'm back'" by Olga Craig, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 1, 2008.

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• Never wear anything that panics the cat.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun, Cat, Animal

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The wisest rule in investment is: when others are selling, buy. When others are buying, sell. Usually, of course, we do the opposite. When everyone else is buying, we assume they know something we don't, so we buy. Then people start selling, panic sets in, and we sell too.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Opposites, People, Buying

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• I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to?

  Curt Schilling

  Sports, Running, Father

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• After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.

  Jane Seymour

  Divorce, Calm, Painting

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• There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Christian Inspirational, Heaven, Problem

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• A sight game is that I am hurt, but I aim to make you believe I am not even hurt, and with this confidence appearing on my face, I don't panic, otherwise your opponent will know that you are hurt. That's the whole art game in boxing.

  Evander Holyfield

  Art, Hurt, Believe

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• I've had paranoid panic attacks.

  Katherine Heigl

  Panic Attacks, Paranoid

  "Katherine Heigl positively glows". Interview with William Keck, usatoday30.usatoday.com. May 21, 2007.

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• I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.

  Dane Cook

  Self, Anxiety, Panic Attacks

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

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• I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.

  Rupert Everett

  Birthday, Age, 60th Birthday

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• To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Cancer, Firsts, Lists

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• I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can't worry about it too much.

  Jennifer Garner

  Thinking, Vanity, Worry

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• Now, if some panic hits me, you have to sort of be friends with your body, it's like your body will work against you.

  Ellie Goulding

  Body, Your Body, Ifs

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

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• I suffer panic attacks which has made me really conscious about my fitness and I have become addicted to jogging. It might sound odd but a lot of good has come out of it. My fans send letters saying they have taken up jogging because I do it.

  Ellie Goulding

  Taken, Suffering, Sound

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

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• I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.

  Ellie Goulding

  Pain, Believe, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.

  Ellie Goulding

  Heart, Careers, Get Better

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.

  Tippi Hedren

  Dream, Black, Spiders

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• People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to lose. It's always the most conventional things that contain the largest measure of madness.

  Javier Marías

  People, Bears, Madness

  "A Heart So White" by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa, New Directions, (p. 121), 2002.

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• We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have tried to forget and put behind us would stir again, and that sense of fear, of furtive unrest, struggling at length to blind unreasoning panic - now mercifully stilled, thank God - might in some manner unforeseen become a living companion as it had before.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Struggle, Past, Thank God

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• The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

  H. G. Wells

  Running, Men, Paper

  H. G. Wells, Warwick Goble (2015). “The War of the Worlds”, p.94, Courier Dover Publications

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• In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two important respects. First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.

  Douglas Adams

  Civilization, Two, Omission

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.27, Pan Macmillan

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• Ok. don't panic. Don't panic. It's only a VISA bill. It's a piece of paper; a few numbers. I mean, just how scary can a few numbers be?

  Sophie Kinsella

  Mean, Numbers, Scary

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• Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

  Shannon Hale

  Shy, Speak, Expected

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• I knew I was having a panic attack. I hadn't had one in a while, though, and I'd forgotton how they made everything like it- and I- was going to fall apart. How they reminded me of how trapped I was.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Fall, Panic Attacks, Made

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• Hovering near panic, trying to focus but finding it hard to open my eyes. My heart was pounding. I couldn’t get enough air, and I couldn’t find the desire to push her away

  Kim Harrison

  Heart, Eye, Air

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