Craziness Quotes - Page 6

• If I was painting or writing, I wouldn't veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor, I kind of think the same way. I should do things that are different and interesting and shed light on the craziness of the world.

  Josh Hartnett

  Writing, Thinking, Light

  "Hart throb" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2002.

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• No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say, and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down.

  Seth Godin

  Morning, Block, Wake Up

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• I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Thinking, Views, Talking

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• This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.

  Douglas Sirk

  Art, Distance, Quality

  Douglas Sirk, Jon Halliday (1971). “Sirk on Sirk: interviews with Jon Halliday”, Harvill Secker

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• I suppose really I was a wife, a mother and a business woman, and then suddenly catapulted into this kind of world of craziness where it’s… there’s good sides and there’s bad sides…I wouldn't kind of turn the clock back and take another direction.

  Lisa Vanderpump

  Mother, Wife, World

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• Craziness in a shoe is great - you can have much more freedom, you can exaggerate and it doesn't feel stupid. But to have too much craziness near your face, that would just feel weird.

  Miuccia Prada

  Stupid, Shoes, Too Much

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• Ketut, why is life all crazy like this?" I asked my medicine man the next day...So what can we do about the craziness of the world?" Nothing." Ketut laughed, but with a dose of kindness. "This is nature of world. This is destiny. Worry about your craziness only-make you in peace.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Kindness, Crazy, Destiny

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• There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized.

  Zoë Heller

  Class, People, Parent

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• I still don't believe this craziness for being skinny, but I eat sensibly and I don't stuff down chocolate biscuits.

  Kate Winslet

  Believe, Chocolate, Stuff

  "Alanis Morissette, Kate Winslet Reveal Slim-Down Secrets". Elle Magazine, www.foxnews.com. January 2, 2009.

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• If I had known that this movie would bring so much craziness, I don't know if I would have said 'yes' to the Twilight Saga. I never asked to be a poster-boy.

  Robert Pattinson

  Twilight, Boys, Fame

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• If you want to do Vipassana, or any silent meditation, Dynamic Meditation becomes absolutely essential, because Christianity having poisoned your mind, that poison has to be thrown out. You have to go completely crazy to throw it out; otherwise that craziness remains inside you, and won't allow you to get into a silent, watching, witnessing meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Crazy, Meditation, Mind

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• We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Anxiety, World

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• I focused on the passing houses filled with couples who’d somehow survived this teenage craziness of ‘he likes her but she likes him and he likes somebody else, you just can’t win.’ How did they do it? How did they end up in their golden, warm and cozy living rooms with their 2.3 children and dogs and cats? Because getting from where I was to where they were seemed millions of light years away.

  Sarah Strohmeyer

  Dog, Teenage, Children

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• I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.

  Pamela Anderson

  Grace, Proud, Able

  "Pamela Anderson: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. April 28, 2015.

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• So, even in the midst of craziness and exhaustion and life-changing chaos, I was filled with peace and the sweet knowledge that I was walking the path my Goddess wanted me on. Not that that path was smooth and pothole free. But still, it was my path, and like me, it was bound to be unique." Untamed

  P. C. Cast

  Sweet, Life Changing, Unique

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• One tended to lose one’s bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.

  Tom Robbins

  Violence, Rage, Easier

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Skinny Legs and All”, p.225, Bantam

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• Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness

  Ai Weiwei

  Names, Age

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• I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.

  T. D. Jakes

  Thinking, Storm, Storms Of Life

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• How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust. And against that the jaw sets. The more I fear my own insanity the more I must punish yours.

  Kate Millett

  Crazy, Insanity, Lust

  Kate Millett (1990). “The Loony-bin Trip”, p.68, University of Illinois Press

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• You have to be in good shape, basically. And then, you have to have a certain craziness, if you're going to do some of the action things.

  Antonio Banderas

  Shapes, Action, Certain

  "Antonio Banderas Talks THE EXPENDABLES 3, the Changes He Made to His Character, PUSS IN BOOTS 2, Working with Terrence Malick, and More". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 7, 2014.

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• A Bit of Craziness Is Good for Business

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Business, Bits

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• When women let their hair down, it means either sexiness or craziness or death, the three by Victorian times having become virtually synonymous.

  Margaret Atwood

  Women, Mean, Hair

  "Ophelia Has a Lot to Answer For". Speech at the Stratford Festival, September 1997.

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• I very easily decide in certain situations that I'm an outsider. That's just my own craziness. I think that I have sympathy for those characters who are like that, but I love it when the humor comes from a character who is serious about his situation - only the way he's thinking about it is all wrong, or the ways he's solving his problems are never going to work.

  Jonathan Coulton

  Character, Thinking, Outsiders

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.

  Kenneth Koch

  Writing, Silence, Cages

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• I believe in love. I believe in good stories. I play really hard on the weekends because I like to have those stories. My wife and I go off and do craziness all the time. We're just like, 'What can we go get into this weekend?' Then we have other ones where we just sit and do nothing and then we have work that we do. It's all memories.

  Channing Tatum

  Memories, Believe, Weekend

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