"If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work."
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"Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.“
-J. K. Rowling
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"Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me."
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"There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface."
-Arianna Huffington
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"You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is a work ethic. It's what allows you to push through moments of disappointment and self-doubt and fear."
-Candace Bushnell
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"I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context."
-Nicholas Hoult
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"Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine."
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"I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear."
-John B. S. Haldane
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"Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it."
-Lionel Richie
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