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"I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore"

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There is something bracingly unglamorous about the way Olivia Newton-John frames courage here: not as swagger, but as a kind of cleared-out space. "I love life" lands first, simple and almost stubborn, like a daily decision rather than a mood. Then she pivots to "nothing intimidates me anymore" - a line that reads less like a victory lap than a status update after years of being tested. The "anymore" is the tell. It implies a before: seasons when fear had leverage, when the future could be negotiated away by illness, grief, or the relentless pressure of public sweetness.

Newton-John spent decades cast as radiance - the wholesome pop star, the movie-era icon, the woman expected to be easy to like. But her real public narrative, especially later, was endurance: recurring cancer, treatment, and advocacy. In that light, the quote feels like an act of reclamation. She isn't denying pain; she's shrinking fear's jurisdiction. Intimidation is what the world does to you - fame, diagnosis, other people's expectations. Saying it no longer works is a quiet refusal to be managed.

The line also sidesteps the modern self-help performance of confidence. There's no brandable mantra about "winning". Instead, she offers a mature defiance: affection for being alive paired with the hard-earned knowledge that worst-case scenarios can be survived. It's not naive optimism; it's a recalibrated scale of what matters, spoken by someone who has already met the monster and learned its true size.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Newton-John, Olivia. (2026, January 16). I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-life-and-nothing-intimidates-me-anymore-105723/

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Newton-John, Olivia. "I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-life-and-nothing-intimidates-me-anymore-105723/.

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"I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-life-and-nothing-intimidates-me-anymore-105723/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Olivia Newton-John (September 26, 1948 - August 8, 2022) was a Musician from Australia.

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