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Dolly Parton Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Stage

"The world is my stage. I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!"

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Christopher Hitchens Author, Critic, Journalist
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"It's not at all good when your cancer is 'palpable' from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn't even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in."

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Brooke Burke Television Personality
Stage

"I don't get stage fright, I actually love the energy, I love the spontaneity, I love the adrenaline you get in front of a live audience, it actually really works for me."

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Albert Einstein Physicist
Stage

"Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will."

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Will Smith Actor, Producer, Rapper
Stage

"Coming from sitcom television and coming from music you burn up every single second. You don't leave anything there. You burn it up and you pass out when you walk off stage, so I took that concept into acting."

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Yoko Ono Artist, Musician, Activist
Stage

"I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me."

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