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I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
Dean Koontz on fear

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.
Susan Sontag on fear

The only thing I fear more than change is no change. The business of being static makes me nuts.
Twyla Tharp on fear

I think people that have fear that, 'Oh if I have a kid I won't be able to do this and I won't be able to do that.' It's kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better.
Anthony Kiedis on fear

Should we fear hackers? Intention is at the heart of this discussion.
Kevin Mitnick on fear

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
Salman Rushdie on fear

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
Steven Brust on fear

Laughter kills fear, and without fear there can be no faith. For without fear of the devil there is no need for God.
Sean Connery on fear

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.
Eliot Spitzer on fear

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 on fear

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing joy, rage, fear triumph, yearning and confusion.
Tony Snow on fear

I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear.
Ashley Tisdale on fear

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
Theodore Bikel on fear

I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.
Puff Daddy on fear

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.
Isabelle Adjani on fear

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!
Camille Pissarro on fear

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: that's just in the suitcase when you're an actor.
Laura Linney on fear

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
Vita Sackville-West on fear

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.
Nicolaus Copernicus on fear

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.
Jesse Jackson on fear