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The fear of becoming a has-been keeps some people from becoming an

The fear of becoming a has-been keeps some people from becoming anything. – Eric Hoffer

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Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story — a story that is basically without meaning or pattern. – Eric Hoffer

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Storytelling
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Eric Hoffer
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When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom — freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. – Eric Hoffer

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Miscellaneous
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Eric Hoffer
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Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do. – Eric Hoffer

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Be Yourself
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Fear
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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear. – Jack Nicholson

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Fear

Theres a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts. – Kiefer Sutherland

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Fear

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. – C. S. Lewis

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Fear

Let us banish fear. – Carter G. Woodson

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Fear

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Books are immortal sons deifying their sires. – Plato

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On my wedding day. I didnt want a natural, blushing-bride look – I had a full-on hairdo and red lips. I thought it would be disingenuous to do the whole virginal look, so even though I had the white dress, I had pink net underneath. – Sophie Ellis Bextor

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wedding

Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay, – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sincerity

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning. – Tryon Edwards

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Exaggeration