"I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next."
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"This is the only country in the world, that worries about what it is. The rest of them know what they are. No one ever needs to go searching for the heart of Norway. Or looks for the soul of Mozambique. They know what they are."
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"Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?"
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"Status, worry and comparison are ways to madness, not victory."
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"Every hour you spend writing is an hour you don't spend worrying about your writing."
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"Money gives me just one big thing that's really important, and that's the freedom of not having to worry about money."
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"I don't lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated."
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"In desire, there must be some small amount of tension. And that tension comes with the unknown, the unpredictable. You can close yourself off at home and say, "Whew, at last I'm in a place where I don't have to worry," or you can keep yourself open to the mystery and elusiveness of your partner."
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"When you are younger, you worry about what people think about you. When you are older, you realize that no one was ever thinking about you at all."
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"The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized."
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"Worry is forethought gone to seed."
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"Once a decision is reached, stop worrying and start working."
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"Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence.... Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills."
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"Never worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art"
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"Don't worry what others are doing. Do you!"
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"I don't worry about a number. I'm fine with aging."
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"George: 'Ringo would always say grammmatically incorrect phrases and we'd all laugh. I remember when we were driving back to Liverpool from Luton up the M1 motorway in Ringo's Zephyr, and the car's bonnet hadn't been latched properly. The wind got under it and blew it up in front of the windscreen. We were all shouting, 'Aaaargh!' and Ringo calmly said, 'Don't worry, I'll soon have you back in your safely-beds."
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"The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry."
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"She is furious with herself for her own stupidity. Opening herself up like this, voluntarily, to a lifetime of worry and anguish. It was madness. Sheer lunacy. A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose. Faith that the world will not destroy you."
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"It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out."
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