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Not reading my bank statements thoroughly enough!
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Mandy Patinkin
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Not being at peace with myself, in spite of an ongoing lifetime effort to try to calm down and accept that, no matter what, I did the best I could.
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Terror of the next day.
Edwina Currie
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Anxiety. Usually the best response is to think hard about things, work up some solutions and then go to sleep.
Laurence Fox
English actor and activist
Worry about being self-employed. Nowadays, I don’t lose sleep over my divorce – I did for about a year.
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