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"Fear is contagious. You can catch it. Sometimes all it takes is for someone to say that they're scared for the fear to become real. Mo was terrified, and now Nick was too."
"I didn’t know it would be like this,” he says in a whisper. And then: “I’m scared."
"I'm scared shitless of heights."
"I am still nervous every show. Not in the "Wow, I'm scared, I can't go on nervous," but the "I really want to do a good job and the give the audience a great show" kind of nervous. Oh, yes, the nerves are there, but I let them push me instead of holding me back."
"I am not scared of making mistakes."
"maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again."
"I'm not scared of growing old, I'm just scared of not achieving everything that I want to do."
"Make the time to be scared of more interesting things."
"That’s the trouble with being scared all the time. Eventually, people just go numb."
"The people who have the power want you scared. They want you walking around paralyzed by the notion that you could die at any moment."
"I didn't get my licence because I wasn't allowed to. But I haven't had a seizure for a long time so I could, theoretically, get my licence. But I'm now just so used to not driving, I'm scared of what I'd do."
