"I get nervous before I conduct a concert, but then you just go out there and do it."
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"It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants."
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"I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by."
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"Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited."
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"There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars."
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"The status of 'native' is a nervous condition introduced and maintained by the settler among colonized people with their consent."
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"I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight."
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"I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes."
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"I don't feel like I ever really do get past the nervousness. I'm always nervous. Something about being nervous keeps you on the edge, and I've always felt like I worked better under pressure."
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"Since with electricity we extend our central nervous system globally, instantly interrelating every human experience."
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"You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way."
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"I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know."
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"It's hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I'm talking to them."
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"There are other things that contribute to health besides a balanced diet. There are fresh air and sunlight and lack of nervous tension."
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