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• You don't wanna mess up what you've done. It's like Jordan coming back: You're scared to mess up the legacy.

  Ice Cube

  Legacy, Done, Jordan

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• I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.

  Alan Cumming

  Play, Theatre, Knows

  "Shakespeare and me: Alan Cumming". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. June 30, 2012.

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• I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.

  Willem Dafoe

  Thinking, Knowing, Balance

  "Willem Dafoe: 'You do your best work when you're scared'". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2012.

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• I've always been scared of advertising folk. I've met them at parties and I've been to their offices and I've always found them intimidatingly cool. At one company I visited, they held their meetings in a caravan that had somehow been installed in the place, a rather more exotic place to gather than the typical BBC glass box.

  Evan Davis

  Party, Glasses, Office

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• I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Pet, Looks, Rats

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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• Girls get competitive, as though there's only one spot in the world for everything _ but that's not true. We need to stick together and see there's more to life than pleasing men. It's important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls, but you need each other.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Girl, Cutting, Men

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• It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

  Lena Dunham

  Strong, Fun, Often Can

  Interview with Claire Danes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 11, 2012.

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• When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.

  Sean Durkin

  Kids, Littles, Horror

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

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• I feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Jobs, Lucky, Equal

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• I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Stay Strong, Men, Long

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• I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.

  John Elway

  Rain, Weather

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• I was kind of scared of failing at acting.

  James Franco

  Acting, Kind, Failing

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• I'm scared of the unknown future.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Unknown Future

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• The Minnesotans I talk to are really concerned about what the future holds for their families. They're trying to pay for health care and send their kids to college, they're worried about declining home values, they're scared for a loved one they have serving in Iraq.

  Al Franken

  Kids, Home, College

  Interview with Chris Weigant, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2008.

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• A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Laughing, Scary

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• I think that the roots of racism have always been economic, and I think people are desperate and scared. And when you're desperate and scared you scapegoat people. It exacerbates latent tendencies toward - well, toward racism or homophobia or anti-Semitism.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Roots, Racism

  "Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 19, 2008.

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• But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Thinking, Brave, Scare

  "Ginnifer Goodwin Tells Katie Couric, 'I Don't Have to Be Anorexic to Be a Leading Lady'". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. May 31, 2011.

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• Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

  Corey Hart

  Lonely, Teenager, Oxygen

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• I'm actually scared of horror movies. I'm kind of Scaredy Cat when it comes to that stuff.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Cat, Stuff, Kind

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• I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Children, Lasts, Next

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

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• I wouldn't use the word 'scared' for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Insecure, Personality, Giants

  "Anthony Hopkins Discusses the Insecurities He Felt Playing ‘Hitchcock’ and How Darren Aronofsky Fared On the Set of ‘Noah’" by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. November 22, 2012.

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• The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again... just singing one song, the national anthem.

  Hugh Jackman

  Song, Night, Australia

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• Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.

  LeBron James

  Lonely, Growing Up, Kids

  Interview With Larry King, edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2010.

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• I wrote the song 'Angels Standing By'... to try and soothe myself - rock myself to sleep, basically - because I was so scared and stressed.

  Jewel

  Song, Sleep, Angel

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• The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.

  Michael Jordan

  Eye, Player, Champion

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