Quotes with nervous

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  • Bobby Vinton Most of those takes were one take. I made those records in three minutes. I didn't have time to get nervous or scared the first time I sang it. It was all 'live' and I enjoyed it so much.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Timothy Leary My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
    Timothy Leary
    American psychologist and writer (1920 - 1996)
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  • Blair Underwood My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
    The Conquest of Happiness
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Carolina Herrera People get nervous accessorising, but there is nothing wrong with adding a belt or a pair of shoes in another colour.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Brenda Blethyn People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.
    Brenda Blethyn
    English actress (1946 - )
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  • Alice James Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Billy Campbell Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, 'They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.' I'm not sitting there thinking for a week and a half, before I'm supposed to go in front of a network president to do something. That just gives you time to be nervous.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Thomas De Quincey Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities will always be the favorite beverage of the intellectual.
    Thomas De Quincey
    British writer (1785 - 1859)
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  • Milo Bloom The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.
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  • Louise Bogan The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
    Louise Bogan
    American poet (1897 - 1970)
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  • Havelock Ellis The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Shana Alexander The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
    Shana Alexander
    American journalist (1925 - 2005)
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  • Amy Tan We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.
    Amy Tan
    American author (1952 - )
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  • E. M. Forster We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Bill Medley We were so busy that right before we recorded the follow-up single to 'Lovin' Feelin' I had a nervous breakdown. I just folded. I had to stay in bed for a couple of months and rest.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Afrika Bambaataa Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them.
    Afrika Bambaataa
    American disc jockey, rapper, songwriter and producer (1957 - )
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  • Bonnie Tyler When I did the video for 'Holding Out For A Hero,' we filmed that on top of the Grand Canyon, and that was quite frightening. I was close to the edge, and there was a helicopter hovering about, creating a lot of wind, and I was nervous I was going to fall off.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Beau Mirchoff When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
    Beau Mirchoff
    Canadian-American actor (1989 - )
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  • Ben Feldman When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It's sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple. Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor.
    Ben Feldman
    American actor (1980 - )
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