"English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing."
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"I like ties but I prefer not to wear one when I'm nervous."
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"I get nervous when a picture goes beyond two hours."
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"I was born with a nervous breakdown."
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"If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous."
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"He smiles so much, I don't think he has a central nervous system."
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"I have a taste for the macabre. I really am not drawn to imagery that is pretty, things that are just pretty. I’m drawn to things that challenge you, that make you nervous, that make you uncomfortable."
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"Right before I got The West Wing, I was pretty much out of money. When I first came in to Warner Brothers, Aaron Sorkin was there. Of course I was nervous; I'm sitting here in front of the guy who wrote "You can't handle the truth!"."
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"If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit."
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"It's judgement day. I'm nervous. My films are finally being released!"
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"I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous."
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"I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way."
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"The people gave their money and they gave their screams, but the Beatles gave their nervous systems, which is a much more difficult thing to give."
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"When you love others you aren't nervous."
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"True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"
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"When I get nervous, I get word vomit."
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"I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh."
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"What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system."
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"Anything you can suck at should make you nervous."
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"I really have never been nervous in the big leagues."
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