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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.”

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Author:LeBron James

“I was seeing people that were older who didn't create any kind of foundation in their lives, and it scared me to death.”

People Kind Seeing Foundation Scared

Author:Edie Brickell

“Yes, I was scared, it was like stage fright, but I worked through it. If you've gotten to the door, you shouldn't doubt you can open it.”

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Author:Lara Fabian

“I think all of us in our lives feel like we can't make a difference or we can't make a change or it's too late or we're too tired or we're too scared.”

Thinking Feels Differences Our Lives Late Tired Scared Making A Difference Too Late Making Changes

Author:Kerry Washington

“We have people across this country who are scared to death. Because I could tell you this, as a former federal prosecutor, if a center for the developmentally disabled in San Bernardino, California, is now a target for terrorists, that means everywhere in America is a target for these terrorists.”

People Ifs Mean Country America Scared Terrorist Former California Target Disabled Prosecutor

Author:Chris Christie

“I got kind of scared when I thought they wanted me to do something... I didn't want to be naked on the front of a magazine unless everybody would know it was a joke. I wouldn't want to be naked even then.”

Knows Want Kind Wanted Fronts Jokes Scared Naked Magazines

Author:Dolly Parton

“Moammar Gadhafi is the man that killed those Americans over Lockerbie, Scotland. Moammar Gadhafi is also the man that bombed that cafe in Berlin and killed those Marines. And you want to know why Moammar Gadhafi started cooperating on his nuclear program? Because we got rid of Saddam Hussein. And so he got scared that he would be next, and that's why he started cooperating.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“A lot of people are scared. It's the way you're raised. The way you've been told your whole life, that you've got to do this and that. Get a job, go to school. So, a lot of people are scared to just do what they really want. They're worried about what people will think and stuff like that. It's just fear.”

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Author:Oliver Sykes

“I was petrified because all my friends would be going to Washington, DC, to protest. I was sixteen, and I was like, "I don't think I'll be going with you guys," just because I was scared. Then you saw the news, and cops - not students in schools with guns - cops are killing sixteen year old protesters on the news. To me that was more horrifying, to have the authority figures actually killing people on the evening news, than to have another student firing a gun.”

“The integrity of being an artist for Frank Stella means going into the unknown.A great artist is somebody who's not scared to reinvent themselves and to start all over again. And some artists do it once, twice, three times in their career. He's done it probably a dozen times or more.”

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Author:Frank Stella

“When you make a film, you're creating the illusion of a natural experience. But everything is created on purpose. If I want you to be scared, I'm trying to scare you. If I want you to cry, I'm trying to make you sad. If I want you to laugh, I'm trying make you laugh. So, how I get you there is what makes it interesting, because I also want it to feel seamless, and not forced. That kind of constant experimentation is just fun to explore, and I love it.”

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Author:Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

“There's even more stuff that I'd like to release, but I'm scared to, that's really, um, nerdy... not nerdy in a good way. Like, silly.”

Way Stuff Scared Silly Release Good Way Nerdy

Author:Liz Phair

“After Westlife, I was in a scared place, you know; you've three children, and I worry about providing for them, and I had no guarantees going forward about the future.”

Knows Children Three Worry Scared Guarantees Providing Westlife

Author:Shane Filan

“The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a wonderful piece of work.”

Thinking Sometimes Stories Pieces Wonderful Scared Ghost Overlooked Ghost Stories Changelings

Author:Stephen King

“I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.”

Ill Scared Getting Old

Author:Ben Stein

“I'm scared of boogers. If anyone ever showed me a booger I'd smash their face in.”

Ifs Faces Scared Boogers

Author:Johnny Depp

“It's crazy that we live in a world where if your super positive and super creative...it's scary. Because what does that tell you about the mentality of most people if your scared of like...positivity.”

People Ifs World Doe Creative Crazy Scared Positivity Scary Mentality

Author:Kanye West

“I come from a place where there's violence and inarticulacy. I worked in a pub from the age of 12 or 13. I used to see people smashing glasses over each other. I was never tough. I was scared of them.”

People Age Used Violence Tough Glasses Scared Pubs Smashing

Author:Eddie Marsan

“Liberals compare Jerry Falwell to the Taliban, but then are furious with George Bush for not being Jesus Christ. Evidently, what a president is supposed to do when the girls are scared is develop complete omniscience and omnipotence. Thus, the media repeatedly expound upon the proposition that what Bush should have done in response to the anthrax mailings is: Instantly produce the culprits and put an end to this madness!”

“I can hardly thinke there was any scared into Heaven; they go the surest way to Heaven who would serve God without a Hell; other Mercenaries, that crouch unto Him in feare of Hell, though they terme themselves servants, are indeed but the slaves of the Almighty.”

Way I Can Heaven Hell Slave Scared Servant Almighty Serving God

Book:Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall

Source: Religio Medici and Urne-Buriall

“Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared”

Trying Running Pain Fighting Brave Scared Running Away Be Brave Being Scared

Book:The Wisdom of Insecurity

Source: The Wisdom of Insecurity

“I'm scared shitless of heights.”

Scared Height

Author:Mark Cuban

“I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.”

People Play Character Drama Meetings Scared Scary Nervous Meeting New People

Author:Meg Cabot

“I didn't respond to that. I'm not scared of heights. I'm just scared of falling from heights.”

Fall Scared Height

Author:John Zakour

“I'm motivated by fear. Fear of fear. I hate being scared to do something. And I think what developed in my early days was the attitude that I started attacking things that I was scared of.”

Thinking Hate Attitude I Hate Scared Motivated Attacking Being Scared

Author:Will Smith

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

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Author:Jewel

“Seriously, if I switched on the TV and they were showing live footage of an army of fire-breathing pterodactyls machine-gunning people to death on the streets of London right outside my door, I'd be horrified, but not entirely surprised, nor any more scared than I already am. I'd probably just shrug and wait for them to smash the door down. We're so screwed, I don't even know what to worry about first.”

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Author:Charlie Brooker

“I was a bit scared because I came from the acting world. There was a fear that people would think of me kind of as a joke. But really, people think of me as a country artist who can act. That's my favorite compliment.”

People Thinking World Kind Country Artist Bits Acting Jokes My Favorite Scared Compliment Think Of Me Country Artist

Author:Jana Kramer

“I decided to take a leap of faith and go into business for myself. I'm scared to death!”

Decided Scared Leap Leap Of Faith

Author:Kam Williams

“I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach myself how to do it.”

Feels Book Teach Written Scared

Author:Paul Auster

“Going on things like rollercoasters is not really up my street I guess. I don't feel like I need to do stunts. I'm too scared and I don't think it's my job.”

Thinking Needs Feels Jobs Streets Scared

Author:Jonathan Meades

“When I experienced altered states of consciousness, my whole philosophical structure crumbled, and that terrified me. And what scared me the most was the realisation that death was not the end!”

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Author:Susan Schneider

“I heard that the guy who invented the Jehovah's Witnesses was a Mason.That kind of turned me off, because when something's mysterious, all you can do is be scared of it. "He's a Mason? Ugh. It must be evil!" I didn't know much about it, so I was scared. Now I actually admire those guys - they're pretty talented. They founded a lot of the world that we look at today.”

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Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“I won't look it in the eye. As soon as I do, I get scared. You gotta walk the plank at some point, but at first you gotta put blinders on or you'll overthink things. I think it's dangerous, by the way, to do a lot of talks about your art, to do so much talking and so little making. You get the wrong idea about yourself.”

Thinking Way Firsts Looks Littles Art Ideas Eye Walks Talking Dangerous Scared About Yourself Blinders Wrong Ideas

Author:Laurel Nakadate

“I have always found clowns really fascinating, especially on film. Even as a kid I was never scared of them.”

Kids Film Found Scared Fascinating Clown

Author:Rob Zombie

“I'd like to jump out of an airplane, but I'm very scared of that. I will have to do it.”

Scared Airplane

Author:Cedric Gervais

“I'm scared. I'm excited. I'm ready for whatever happens but I think that fame is what comes along with the territory when you open yourself up and become this story, this book for anyone to read.”

Thinking Book Stories Happens Ready Fame Scared Excited Territory Whatever Happens

Author:Katy Perry

“I'm actually very scared of sharks. I wanted to be a marine biologist when I was young, which may not have been compatible with that fear.”

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Author:Gillian Anderson

“Once I became a photographer, it stopped me being scared or intimidated by gangs of young men of whatever stripe. Initially, I could hide behind my camera but eventually I came to realize that if I was polite and friendly to them, then they probably would be to me too - a good life lesson.”

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Author:Derek Ridgers

“Hugh Laurie was intimidating, but he's the greatest guy. He's so wonderful and smart and funny and serious, and he sets the bar high. So if I was scared, it's because I wasn't measuring up.”

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Author:Peter Jacobson

“I've never really been too scared to do anything.”

Scared

Author:Ryan Follese

“It's good to try stuff. I wrote a book that I threw away, and I think I just wrote it so I could try stuff in it and not be scared”

Thinking Trying Book Stuff Scared

Author:Jami Attenberg

“The job of a president is to identify, distinguish between the two. Make sure the people know that we view it as a threat that we're - because people are scared and they're legitimately so. Take action accordingly. And then you're going to lessen people's fears on the day-to-day activities. We can't be paralyzed in place. And that's where we are today.”

People Knows Two Today Action Jobs President Views Activity Threat Scared Day To Day Paralyzed

Author:Jeb Bush

“It's a funny thing because it's what the people say when they come across a ghost situation is that it does freak you out, but then you do get over it - for some reason you're not scared to come across it again.”

People Doe Reason Situation Scared Ghost Over It Freak Get Over Funny Things

Author:Rhys Darby

“I'm very well off but I can stay with normal people. I can do a super-luxury life, but I can do a very normal life and I'm not scared.”

People Wells I Can Can Do Normal Scared Luxury Normal Life

Author:Riccardo Tisci

“In the Seventies I was so scared I wouldn't go on stage.”

Stage Goes On Scared Seventies

Author:Ozzy Osbourne

“I always get a little bit scared reading reviews.”

Littles Reading Bits Little Bit Scared Reviews

Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw

“I am a very emotional human being and would say that I handle emotional pain in a healthy way by always letting it out and not keeping it in. There is no better feeling than allowing those tears to flow when I am feeling emotionally constricted. Crying feels so good sometimes, and I do it when I'm happy, sad, stressed, scared. I like to believe that tears are my friend.”

Way Feels Believe Humans Sometimes Feelings Pain Human Beings Cry Tears Emotional Healthy My Friends Flow Scared Handle Allowing Stressed Emotional Pain

Author:Renee Marino

“Henry Adams was scared shitless, politically, by the discovery that England isn't alien to a boy from Boston, but it was true, and it is true. It's a Boston and coastal Massachusetts thing. Henry Adams blocked it out.”

Boys Discovery England Scared Aliens Boston Blocked Massachusetts Coastal

Author:William Monahan

“T.S. Eliot, who learned to swim at the same beach as I did, just threw in the towel and moved to Cheyne Walk. I'm not going to do that but I'm not scared of the open channel between me and Britain.”

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Author:William Monahan

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