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A line from one of my 1997 columns - Do one thing every day that s

A line from one of my 1997 columns – Do one thing every day that scares you – is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I dont believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing. – Mary Schmich

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I couldnt have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mothers death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. – Mary Schmich

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The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. – Mary Schmich

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Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. Im fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldnt make a good suspense film. – Alfred Hitchcock

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There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him. – Henry Miller

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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. – Marian Anderson

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I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. – Louise Brown

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When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep. – Author Unknown

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If you have a dream, just lie about it. Lie your way unto your dreams. – Joel McHale

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