#afraid

I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#always #being #edge #feeling #i

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#about #afraid #amazing #america #american

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#family #had #i #knew #neglect

Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on. ↗

— Charlotte Gainsbourg

#being #being afraid #go #i #i think

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#being #being the best #best #born #drive

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid. ↗

— John Gotti

#anyone #because #fear #i #lie

I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#admit #afraid #among #baseball #being

Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years. ↗

— Deidre Hall

#come #find #government #how #i

A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man. ↗

— James Harrington

#army #cannon #cold #cold iron #earth

Don't be afraid to make a mistake, your readers might like it. ↗

— William Randolph Hearst

#like #make #might #mistake #readers