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"[I had a sense of interior panic].Always. I didn't really know what to call it for a long time, but I have a friend in Greece who used that word panic a lot, and I found myself resisting it, until I totally accepted that as a precise description of my interior condition. It was mostly panic from one moment to the next. And nothing much else was going on."
"What happens with you when you begin to feel uneasy, unsettled, queasy? Notice the panic, notice when you instantly grab for something. (51)"
"I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project."
"I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."
"What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?"
"What we honor as prudence in our elders is simply panic in action."
"Em didn't truly understand about my panic attacks - no one did. But she'd never pushed me to explain, never tried to ditch me when things got weird, and never once looked at me like I was a freak."
"Great. "So not only am I not-human, but Death is my arch foe?" Who, me? Panic? "Anything else you want to tell me, while we're confessing?"
"It made our hair stand up in panic fear."
"We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others."
"Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux."
"If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies."
"Executives and studios really like to have control over their product. They panic or they're not secure enough to trust in the powers of really amazing improv people."
"I don't know what's wrong with me, but like, the second I stop working, I have a panic attack, so it's good for me to be thinking of projects ahead of time and lining things up."
"I think that I don't panic as much as the folks on the left or the right do. I don't have that sense of panic."
"Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety."
"Denise clung to the feel of his hands as she pushed at her panic. It's okay. You're safe...and this has got to be the ugliest couch ever."
"All right, let's not panic. I'll make the money by selling one of my livers. I can get by with one."
"If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away."
"I can't emphasize the immediate panic that would set in when I had to audition. I can't believe I did it."
