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Elizabeth Gilbert shows up for ... everything

The TED Interview

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The Signature of All Things

"I've never started any project that I wasn't afraid during the entire thing," she says. Fear is part of our makeup, "it's something that's inherent in us." The conversation with fear is not to say you are the death of creativity and I can't be creative because you exist, but rather to sayYou are one of the emotions that I possess. Once you allow fear to just be present, it seems to quiet down and go to sleep,. Then you can go about your work, but it's never out of the picture. We're going on a road trip, but I don't expect you to not come.

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