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“With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'Can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited.”

World Way Speak Leader Changed Emotional Anxiety Projects Mass Connections Radio Mediums Emotional Connection

Author:Tom Hooper

“I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.... My hemmings and hawings over the telephone cause long-distance callers to switch from their native English to pathetic French. At parties, if I attempt to entertain people with a good story, I have to go back to every other sentence for oral erasures and inserts.... In these circumstances nobody should ask me to submit to an interview if by "interview" a chat between two normal human beings is implied.”

“When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it tends to speak to the reviewer's anxieties rather than the book itself.”

Should Trying Kind Book Speak Careers Anxiety Reviews Reviewers

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“The president Donald Trump took an important first step. Literally, we hadn't heard him speak in the way that he did, talking about that these threats are painful and that anti-Semitism is horrible. Of course we agree. But, as we have said for a long time, now we need the next step, which is a plan of action to calm these communities where anxiety has reached an incredibly high level.”

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Author:Jonathan Greenblatt

“Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.”

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Author:Jenny Lawson

“That [American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.”

People Important Energy Speak Cases Issues Source Comfort Anxiety Reactions Ignorant Clarity Complexity Inability Dependency Important Issues Exceptionalism American Exceptionalism

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“I dread the loss of her I've never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak I miss a woman who was never born I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet Everything passes Everything perishes Everything palls my thought walks away with a killing smile leaving discordant anxiety which roars in my soul No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope”

Source: Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin

“I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse.”

Wells Speak Pleasure Anxiety Strategy Backgrounds Collapse Anguish Clinicals Clinical Depression

Author:Leonard Cohen

“[My mother] speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.”

Life Long Home Pain Mother Speak Steps Duty Source Anxiety Letters Posts Ease Etc Coming Home Anxious Long Life Source Of Life

Author:Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

“I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example of the world.”

Source: In a Single Garment of Destiny

“This may not be the path for everyone. But the trust of which we speak is not an act of heroism. it is an act of surrender that makes the decision easier. It sounds unbelieveable, but I know it to be true. Leave the decision to God and you relieve yourself of the anxiety that comes from thinking that the choice is yours - the sneaking suspicion that you might have done better had you been a little more careful, a little luckier.”

Thinking Knows May Littles Done Might Choices Speak Sound Decision Path Easier Quiet Anxiety Careful Surrender Being True Heroism Suspicion Acts Of Heroism

Author:William McGurn

“Mothers ought to bring up and nurse their own children; for they bring them up with greater affection and with greater anxiety, as loving them from the heart, and so to speak, every inch of them.”

Heart Children Mother Speak Greater Ought Anxiety Affection Nurse Inches Feeding Breastfeeding

Author:Plutarch

“No one is moved to act, or resolves to speak a single word, who does not hope by means of this action or word to release anxiety from his spirit.”

Mean Doe Action Spirit Speak Anxiety Moved Release Resolve Single Word Social Anxiety

Author:Ibn Hazm