Fear connotes something that interferes with what you're doing.
John Glenn
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I never went to university. I'm self-educated. I didn't go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.
John Banville
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I said that if I hadn't been a politician, I'd have liked to be a barrister, or an academic. My beloved wife said: 'You'd be a very good barrister and a hopeless academic.' I said 'Why?' She said: 'Because you're not an original thinker.'
John Bercow
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Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.
Jeffrey Tate
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You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New York on a June evening feels like - you feel like it's Friday, and you're 17 years old.
John Darnielle
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It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just write about what I wanted to write about without having to pass a test or look super clever.
Matt Haig
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Unfortunately, the attitude of many towards the press, humanitarians included and especially government workers, is often one of suspicion, if not outright fear.
Alvin Adams
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I would rather just do the things I want to do.
Stanley Tucci
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I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list.
Steven Wright
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I'm not intimidated by how people perceive me.
Dolly Parton
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Extroverts may get places faster, but for introverts it's all about working at the pace you need and, at the end of the day, performing at your best.
Douglas Conant
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I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.
Claude Debussy
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As a fluke, my great-grandfather hit one of the largest oil reserves in California.
Armie Hammer
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