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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard Shaw / Playwright
Failure
Ideas
Son
Fret
Occur
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I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.
Jerzy Kosinski / Novelist
Literature
Use
Writing
Fret
Time Lost Always
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I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets.
Robin Trower / Guitarist
Hands
I Can
Notes
Bend
Fret
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Free-trade enthusiasts fret that regional trade arrangements divert more trade than they create.
Zanny Minton Beddoes /
Arrangements
Divert
Fret
Regional
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The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.
Stevie Ray Vaughan / Guitarist
Bass
Necks
Play
Years
Way Through Go
Fret
Gibson
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The best way to survive life is - never fret over what you don't get. There's a bigger plan for you.
Shilpa Shetty / Film Actress
Best Way
Bigger
Life Best Way
Fret
Plan
Survive
To Survive
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Play the pentatonic blues scale, just for fret- and pick-hand dexterity and to mesh them both together.
Dimebag Darrell / Musician
Mesh
Scale
Blues
Fret
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My problem isn't death but old age. I fret about my lack of balance, my buckling knee, my difficulty standing up and sitting down.
Donald Hall / Poet
Difficulty
Old Age
Standing
Fret
Standing Up
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We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
Chanakya / Teacher
Fear
Men
Anxious
Discernment
Integrity
Past
Present Moment
Deal
Fret
Moment
Present
Nor
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Some of my favorite harmonics are located between frets. There are two really cool ones between the 2nd and 3rd frets that I use a lot.
Dimebag Darrell / Musician
Favorite
Fret
Located
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A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin / Poet
Uplifting
Acceptance
Gravitation
Self Esteem
Slides
Stars
Swings
True Man
Nature Man World
Star
Easily
Fret
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I don't fret much about the natural life spans of shoe companies. If stores don't do the right things, they cease to exist, and that doesn't trouble me at all.
Steve Madden /
Cease
Natural
Natural Life
Shoes
Trouble
Cease To Exist
Fret
Right Things
Shoe
Spans
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The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months.
Eddie Van Halen / Musician
Amount
Bending
Breakthrough
Couple
Guitar
Months
Guitars
Fret
Major
Playing
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In business or in life, focus on the things over which you do have some control. And don't fret about all the other problems. Most of the time, they don't come true anyway!
Steve Wynn /
Life Time Business
Anyway
Fret
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The angle from which the line and ball are seen makes a tremendous difference in the call, and the player who is inclined to fret inwardly about decisions should realize this.
Helen Wills Moody /
Angle
Decisions
Ball
Tremendous
Fret
Inclined
Inwardly
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A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.
George Crabbe / Poet
Fear
Bother
Dry
Fling
Hurt
Land
Lying
Fish
Lie
Fret
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We should never forget the inevitable, as we will lose everything eventually. So, why fret over any kind of security? The idea is to just fly and experience it all while it lasts.
Sushant Singh Rajput / Theatre Actor
Experience
Forget
Inevitable
Lasts
Never Forget
Security
Should
Will
Just
Why
Any
Never
Idea
Eventually
Fly
Fret
Over
Lose
While
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Let the novelists fret about consistency - story writers should feel free to jam; to get things right in new, surprising ways by allowing themselves, now and then, to get things wrong.
Walter Kirn / Novelist
Allowing
Consistency
Jam
Novelists
Now And Then
Surprising
Writers
Fret
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The easiest place to get a natural harmonic on any string is at the 12th fret. All you do is lightly rest one of your left-hand fingers on a string directly above that fret and then pick it.
Dimebag Darrell / Musician
Fingers
Above
Directly
Easiest
Fret
Harmonic
Lightly
Pick
String
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If the Devil can only make you think that you are abused or ill treated, and you begin to fret about it, and you give the Devil power over you - in the end, it is as bad as though you had done wrong yourself.
Brigham Young / Founding Figure
Abuse
Ill
Begin
Fret
In The End
Though
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I don't believe in doing one thing after another. I am a bit lazy, laid back, and a happy-go-lucky person. I don't fret too much. I enjoy living in the moment. If I have too much, then I get confused and distressed.
Mouni Roy /
Confused
Happy Go Lucky
Laid Back
Distressed
Fret
Laid
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I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.
Harriet Walter / Actress
Bed
Half Hours
Six
Sleep
Good Me Problems
Fret
Switch
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I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.
Alvin Lee / Guitarist
Guitar
Practice
School
Shapes
Strings
Neck
Chord
Desk
Fret
Hidden
Seriously
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Museums and galleries do recruit art historians, but they are overwhelmingly white and middle class, or else from abroad. They understandably fret about the lack of diversity in their curating departments, but is it any wonder?
Munira Mirza /
Middle Class
Museums
Recruit
Abroad
Departments
Fret
Galleries
Historians
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So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit. But I do feel like I'm at a place in my career now where I don't necessarily fret about that too much anymore.
Charlize Theron / Actress
Careers
Long
Play
Time Myself Long
Physically
Fret
Waited
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I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses up in the public square and things like that. I don't fret about that at all; I'm quite happy about that.
Richard Dawkins / Ethologist
Colleagues
Crosses
Being Used
Fret
Object
Square
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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
Kate Winslet / Actress
Homework
Fret
Prepare
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We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.
James Buchan / Novelist
Drama
Impatient
Parliamentary
School
Subordination
Views
Begins
Crown
Earned
Fret
Scheme
Merits
Promised
Shakespeare
Throne
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Become a worry-slapper. Treat frets like mosquitoes. Do you procrastinate when a bloodsucking bug lights on your skin? 'I'll take care of it in a moment.' Of course you don't! You give the critter the slap it deserves. Be equally decisive with anxiety.
Max Lucado / Author
Care
Giving
Light
Slap
Take Care
Worry
Skin
Bug
Course
Decisive
Equally
Fret
Give
Lights
Moment
Procrastinate
Treat
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This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare / Poet
Life
Fury
Heard
Honour
Idiot
Player
Poor
Shadow
Sound
Stage
Virtue
Walking
Nothing
More
Then
Had
Been
Full
Fret
His
Hour
Tale
Tomb
Which
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To get on a show where you're acting day in and day out for many, many hours - 15-16 hours sometimes - it hones your endurance, your ability to memorize, your ability to follow your instincts, because you don't have time to fret about your choices afterward.
Lela Loren / Actor
Endurance
Time Your Day
Afterwards
Time Day Sometimes
Instincts
Time Day Your
Fret
Memorize
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While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips.
Elayne Boosler / Comedian
Space
Comic
Comic Strips
Cutting
Editors
Owners
Reducing
Shrinking
Attracts
Currently
Feature
First Place
Fret
Newspaper
Profits
Readers
Strips
The One Thing
Throats
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The cello is such a versatile instrument. It can rock like the hardest rock guitar, and it can sing like the human voice. We couldn't do what we do without the classical training. It's a hard instrument to play. There are no frets, and it takes finesse and technique to play.
Luka Sulic /
Finesse
Guitar
Human Voice
Technique
Training
Versatile
Cello
Classical
Fret
Instrument
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Every girl is a singer. I wanted to learn the solos and play lead guitar. I would meticulously teach myself solos so when dudes were like, 'Oh, you're a girl, you can't play guitar,' I could rip these insane Telecaster blues solos and tell them, 'Yeah, I can burn up a fret board.'
Julien Baker /
Insane
Rip
Blues
Burn
Dudes
Fret
Lead Guitar
Solos
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If I look at the one thorn that is in my side, of all my life, it is my weight. I fret about it, I'm anxious about it, being an actor on television - it drives me insane. It just seems to be something that plays a central part in waking up in the morning and thinking, 'How am I with myself today?'
Deborah Mailman / Television Actress
Anxious
Insane
Waking
Weight
Life Morning Myself
All My Life
Central
Drives
Fret
Plays
Thorn
Waking Up
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People with big ideas worry. They lie awake at night and fret as they try to climb up the social or financial ladder. They probably feel proud of themselves for what they've achieved, but I'm proud of the fact that I've done very little - and hence have little to worry about - and I've still got somewhere.
Lisa Jewell / Author
Awake
Big Ideas
Financial
Worry
Achieved
Somewhere
Climb
Lie
Fret
Hence
Ladder
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In my business - SAT tutoring - you get used to sighs. A client's mother frets over the sheer amount of work her daughter has to do to get her score up, until she reaches the resigned moment when she will sigh and observe that no one thought you could prepare for the SAT back when she took it - it was 'untutorable.'
Eliot Schrefer /
Resigned
Score
Sheer
Sigh
Client
Fret
Observe
Prepare
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I worked at a vintage guitar store, and the owner had ties with a lot of Japanese manufacturers and U.S. manufacturers that were beginning to pop up. So I was ordering parts and screwing them together and contacting local luthiers to finish and do frets and things, and I had put together two guitars, a red one and a black one.
Joe Satriani / Guitarist
Ties
Vintage
Guitars
Fret
Owner
Japanese
Manufacturers
Ordering
Screwing
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