Just into the new year and we are having a lot of inquiries, which is very encouraging, as new year can sometimes feel like the calm after the storm.

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You know, folks ask me sometimes why I look so calm. (Laughter.) They say, all this stuff coming at you, how come you just seem calm?

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One of my girlfriends admitted recently she was afraid to tell the women in her mother's group she sometimes has a glass of wine to calm herself down because she thought they'd disapprove.

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Sometimes presidents must aim for a voice of calm, reassurance in a terrible world.

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He gets so worked up that his wife, Ann, sometimes stands behind his guests and signals for him to calm down.

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No wonder Mr Trimble so often seemed an embattled figure... and yet to those of us who have followed him in recent years one of his personal trademarks was the perverse manner in which moments of deep crisis in Northern Ireland's never-ending political negotiating process sometimes seemed to inspire him to a kind of jaunty calm.

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The crew tried to keep passengers calm as they slept on decks and waited in food lines, sometimes for as long as four hours.

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Often more level-headed than the others, he was known as the calm member of the group - though he was apparently a heavy drinker and sometimes given to angry outbursts.

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