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“The only men who aren't in fear of women's reactions are usually men who aren't born or who are dead.”
“My only problem is the fear that opposition bowlers might go for my fingers and that's why I was scared of the short ball. Now I am struggling with the ball pitching up and swinging away. I just keep nicking that one.”
“A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing.”
“I am grateful that I didn't let fear get the best of me. It only holds you back from possibilities and greatness.”
“You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.”
“My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world.”
“In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.”
“Fear created the first gods in the world.”
“What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.”
“But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.”
“The way you deal with a scare is the way you deal with a laugh. The timing has to be perfect. When you're dealing with fear or laughter - emotions that happen spontaneously - you hope it's working. But in the moment, you really have no idea.”
“It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.”
“My biggest fear in life is to be average.”
“When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.”
“Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.”
“There's always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you're a fraud after all!”
“I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.”
“Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all.”
“By action and reaction do we become strong or weak, according to the character of our thoughts and mental states. Fear is the deadly nightshade of the mind.”
“Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.”
“I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.”
“I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.”
“With all of the divisiveness that is going on in the country we live in, so much of it is based around just fear of the other. And anyone who does not look like me, walk like me, talk like me, have sex like me, they're the other and I'm afraid of them. And hopefully we will learn that it's just not scary. There's nothing to be afraid of.”