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You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

I'm not brave at all.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

You've got to be brave.

I'm not brave. Far from it.

Being brave isn't the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Always the danger for me in life and in art is not to be brave. I am not a naturally brave person. I have to will myself not to hole up in my house and read my life away.

It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.