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Lee Tergesen

"But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it."

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"But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it."

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Akshay Vasu

"Fear of the unknown and resentment bring stress."

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"We fear no one knows our potential, ability, power, and talent. We fear to learn about our capability and capacity so we keep it latent."

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Akshay Vasu

"I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids."

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Akshay Vasu

"If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered."

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Akshay Vasu

"Face the fear with face up,and fear will melt away."

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Akshay Vasu

"Fear is a prison where you are the jailer. Free yourself!"

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Akshay Vasu

"Fear never scaled one mountain, never stepped up on a stage, never accepted a challenge, never tilled new ground, never walked in a race; he never even dared to dream. Fear failed to slay a single dragon. Remember this before you choose to keep his company."

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Akshay Vasu

"Pain that you fear becomes present if you dare."

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Akshay Vasu

"Only ego has fear. The Gnani Purush has no ego and so he has no fear of any kind."

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Akshay Vasu

"I fear that should I seek out the treasures around me, they might by comparison reveal that I have not cultivated the treasures within me."

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Lee Tergesen
"I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life."

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Lee Tergesen
"But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it."

Fear

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Lee Tergesen
"I think for Beecher specifically, Keller was with him when his wife died. Beecher had decided after he first got into prison that he had to shut off everybody. You can't let anybody in and you have to become like them and you have to be threatening and all that."

Wife

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Lee Tergesen
"It's definitely intense to walk away from at the end of each season."

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Lee Tergesen
"I know what it's like to be ignored, and I think that is the big problem about the prison system: These people are being thrown away. There is no sense of rehabilitation. In some places, they are trying to do things. But, in most cases, it's a holding cell."

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Lee Tergesen
"What it made me realize was that a show like this makes people look inside themselves. Because this crew guy isn't sitting there wishing the character would fight back. He's hoping that he would fight back."

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"As I walk around, I have met 70-year-old women who live on the Upper West Side who love the show. And I met a couple in Kansas - a couple of truck drivers who drove around together - who loved it. It's popular all over the place and definitely in the gay community."

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Lee Tergesen
"Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache."

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Lee Tergesen
"I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the first year, and during that time I was in such a low place."

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