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    04 October 2009
    “Well, we’re all scared! I mean, if you’re not scared you’re not paying attention!”
    Chandra Wilson, Grey’s Anatomy

    tv fear

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    10 September 2009
    “The only way to live in any true security is to live so close to the bottom that when you fall you do not have far to drop, you do not have much to lose.”
    Dorothy Day, Poverty Is to Care And Not to Care (via azspot)

    fear risk security

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    16 July 2009
    “Frightened? Child, you’re talking to a man who’s laughed in the face of death, sneered at doom, and chuckled at catastrophe… I was petrified.”
    Frank Morgan, The Wizard of Oz

    movie fear courage

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    18 June 2009
    “We don’t wish for the easy stuff. We wish for big things. Things that are ambitious, out of reach. We wish because we need help and we’re scared and we know we may be asking too much. We still wish, though, because sometimes they come true.”
    Ellen Pompeo,  Grey’s Anatomy  

    hope tv fear

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    12 June 2009
    “You have to not care either way about it, she told me, & when you wake up in the middle of the night with anxiety attacks, it’s best to lie & say it’s because you thought you heard something downstairs.”
    Brian Andreas

    uncertainty fear

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    08 June 2009
    “People are so isolated, and so alone, and so suspicious, and so competitive with each other, and so sure that they are about to be conned by their neighbor, or by their mother, or by their sister, or their grandmother. What’s the use of having fifty percent of the world’s wealth, or whatever it is that you have, if you’re going to live this pathetic, terrified life?”
    Arundhati Roy

    human nature fear

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    19 May 2009
    “I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn’t always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.”
    Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

    book fear

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    17 December 2008
    “If there is a door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise you’ll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you’ve already been in.”
    Anne Lamott

    fear discovery brave courage

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    03 December 2008
    “You’re not gonna fall, you’re gonna rise. I always knew there would be a place like this, with birds and everything.”
    John Stroupe

    courage fear limits

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    02 December 2008
    “I spent my whole life being scared, scared of not being ready, not being right, not being who I should be.”
    Peter Krause, Six Feet Under

    tv fear destiny