#nervous

At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. ↗

— Henry Adams

#broken #matter #nervous #relations #renewal

I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical. ↗

— Sean Astin

#definitely #feeling #felt #going #i

On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things. ↗

— John Abercrombie

#because #dates #did #everything #felt

I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense. ↗

— Casey Affleck

#getting #hair #i #i love #just

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#asking #different #everybody #gets #how

When I got Jacob's Latter, I was nervous because I felt I wasn't allowed to fail. I felt that they were waiting for one little failure and that would prove them right and I'd be,"out of there." ↗

— Elizabeth Pena

#because #fail #failure #felt #got

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#avarice #cruelty #fluid #founded #lends

I get unreasonably nervous before talk shows. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#get #i #nervous #shows #talk

I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working. ↗

— John Singleton

#erratic #had #i #more #nervous

It's natural to feel jittery around new people. But sometimes you can get over your jitters if you make a joke. So when the Swedish housekeeper brought her breakfast on a tray, Charity said something cheeky about eating Lady Margaret out of house and home. But the big red-faced woman took no notice at all. So then Charity had to look totally relaxed and unconcerned as she enjoyed her breakfast in bed, which was easy enough after the first bite. The spooky Swedish housekeeper really was a fabulous cook. And Charity believed believed in looking for the best in people. ↗

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

#nervous-laughter #home