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I'm scared of audiences. One show in Amsterdam I was so nervous, I escaped out the fire exit. I've thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I don't like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot.

~Adele

Topics: Amsterdam Anxiety Attacks Audiences Bear Brussels Couple Escaped Exit Fire Gotta Just Like Lot Nervous Once Out Scared Show Someone Thrown Times Touring Up

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No generation has escaped it - one morning, your skill with the eight-track or the record player or the cotton gin suddenly ceases to impress. It's just one of those inevitable disappointments that come with growing up, like the realization that Santa doesn't exist or the way that music always takes a turn for the worse after you turn 30.

~Alexandra Petri

Topics: After Always Ceases Come Cotton Disappointments Escaped Exist Generation Gin Growing Growing Up Impress Inevitable Just Just One Like Morning Music One Morning Player Realization Record Santa Skill Suddenly Takes Those Turn Up Way Worse You Your

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I was born in Yangzhou, China, two years after World War II ended. I was 5 when my family escaped to Taiwan. Eight years later, we moved to Japan.

~Andrew Cherng

Topics: After Born China Eight Ended Escaped Family Japan Later Moved Taiwan Two War World World War World War Ii Years I Was Born

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At that time a lot of young men didn't want to go to the war and kill. This guy that I fell in love with was one of those so he escaped to Canada and I followed him.

~Ann Wilson

Topics: Canada Escaped Fell Followed Go Guy He Him Lot Love Men Those Time Want War Young Young Men

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Just because I do what I do doesn't mean I escaped adolescence, all the bumps and bruises that go along with it.

~Anna Paquin

Topics: Adolescence Along Because Bumps Escaped Go Just Just Because Mean

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A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

~Anthony Hecht

Topics: Again Best Done Escaped Finally First Full Fun Had Lies Like Lines Lot Mystery Nonsense Notice Over Pass Penetrate Return Saying Sense Stage Through Till Trying Yourself

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My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She's a whole performing universe of her own. Activists would run a mile from her because they could not deal with what she is.

~Arundhati Roy

Topics: Activists Because Character Could Deal Escaped Fellini Film Her Like Mile Mother Own Performing Run Set She Universe Who Whole Would

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Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter of Time.

~Aulus Gellius

Topics: Another Daughter Escaped Memory Name Old Poets Present Time Truth Whose

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Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.

~Barbara Amiel

Topics: Aim Attention Barbarians Because Closer Course Domination Escaped Europeans Perhaps Unlike Us Walls World World Domination

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I think for me, home needs to be a sanctuary. I need to feel like I've escaped the day when I get home.

~Bella Heathcote

Topics: Day Escaped Feel Get Home Like Me Need Needs Sanctuary Think I Think

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