"Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears"
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The subtext is practical, almost protective. As an actress who’s lived in the long shadow of public projection - the industry’s habit of turning women into symbols, muses, scandals - Bonet sidesteps the trap of making trauma into performance. “Issues” is deliberately plain, even slightly blunt: not a poetic wound, not a trending diagnosis, just the messy inventory people carry. That casualness keeps the focus on responsibility rather than spectacle.
Then she pivots from empathy to agency: “You have to face your fears.” The second-person “you” is a nudge, not a sermon. It suggests that understanding the universality of struggle isn’t meant to excuse avoidance; it’s meant to remove the alibi of isolation. If everyone has issues, then fear isn’t a personal defect - but confronting it is still the job. The intent reads less like inspiration and more like a grounded, grown-up ethic: compassion for what people carry, firmness about what they do with it.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Bonet, Lisa. (2026, January 16). Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/everyone-has-their-story-everyone-has-issues-you-135707/
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Bonet, Lisa. "Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/everyone-has-their-story-everyone-has-issues-you-135707/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/everyone-has-their-story-everyone-has-issues-you-135707/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.





