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• The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?

  Ariel Gore

  Happiness, Artist, Talking

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• Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house.

  Anna Quindlen

  Real, House, Next

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• Just saying no to drugs is like just saying cheer up to a manic depressant

  Steven Tyler

  Cheer, Drug, Saying No

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• A period of lewdness and shamelessness exists with the highest type of manic delirium.

  Aretaeus of Cappadocia

  Bipolar, Delirium, Type

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• What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Elements, Chance, Fluctuation

  "Themes and Conclusions". Book by Igor Stravinsky, p. 33, 1982.

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• When I'm manic, I'm so awake and alert, that my eyelashes fluttering on the pillow sound like thunder.

  Andy Behrman

  Eyelashes, Sound, Thunder

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• I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side.

  Selma Blair

  Hopeful, Sides, Depressive

  "Selma Blair interview: 'I could be living in a castle right now, with Tom Cruise'". Interview with Jane Mulkerrins, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2012.

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• For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you're depressed. Will you ever feel ok?

  Conor Oberst

  Sunset, Sunrise, Feels

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• I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Workaholic, Bits

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• Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to madness? They have more than average amounts of energies and abilities to see things in a fresh and original way—then because they also have depression, I think they’re more in touch with human suffering.

  Nick Flynn

  Creativity, Thinking, Average

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.140, Faber & Faber

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• This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a highly unscientific experiment designed to gauge how little audiences will settle for these days. Manic and multicolored, "Speed Racer" is an excess of nothingness.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Fun, Gauges, Excess

  "Speed Racer" by Stephanie Zacharek, www.salon.com. May 09, 2008.

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• Manic depression is a frustratin' mess.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Insanity, Mess, Manic Depression

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• At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.

  Robert Hunter

  Writing, Matter, Depressive

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• I have social anxiety. It's easier up on stage because there's security in being there. When I'm off stage I'm trying not to be a manic freak. I'm quite shy.

  Sia Furler

  Anxiety, Trying, Shy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think taking too long to work on a record you sort of lose some of the feeling, so I write as fast as I can; it's just this manic phase where I'm by myself and or on tour and I write and I write. And I send them to the guys, and we start planning our studio ventures.

  John Darnielle

  Writing, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music along with reading and writing for too many years now. I feel guilty beyond words about these things. For example, when we're backstage and the lights go out and the manic roar of the crowds begins, it doesn't affect me the way in which it did for Freddy [sic] Mercury who seemed to love, relish in the love and adoration from the crowd, which is something I totally admire and envy.

  Freddie Mercury

  Reading, Writing, Light

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• The prospect Smiler was a manic farmer. Few men I think can have been as unfortunate as he; for on the one hand he was a melancholic with a loathing for mankind, on the other, some paralysis had twisted his mouth into a permanent and radiant smile. So everyone he met, being warmed by his smile, would shout him a happy greeting. And beaming upon them with his sunny face he would curse them all to hell.

  Laurie Lee

  Men, Thinking, Hands

  Laurie Lee (2011). “Cider With Rosie”, p.36, Random House

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• Getting my father to throw anything away was pretty difficult. He was not trying to hide who he was, and he said, you don't have to hide the fact that I'm manic-depressive. You can tell people that's who I am. It's - explains a lot about your situation.

  Maya Forbes

  Father, Who I Am, People

  "'Infinitely Polar Bear' Director Relives Childhood With Mentally Ill Parent". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. June 22, 2015.

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• Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.

  Steven G. Krantz

  Math, Black, Despair

  Steven G. Krantz (2017). “A Primer of Mathematical Writing: Being a Disquisition on Having Your Ideas Recorded, Typeset, Published, Read, and Appreciated, Second Edition”, p.74, American Mathematical Soc.

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• The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.

  Carrie Fisher

  World, Judgment, Manic Depression

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• My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.

  Kitty Kelley

  Happiness, Sadness, Men

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• I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet.

  Sally Hawkins

  People, Worry, Publicity

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• A sense of electrical current was part of my own experience of being manic. The sensation that my mind was spinning and overheating would sometimes build to a sensation like an electrical short - a burst of light, a melting, or dissipating - and I'd get a metallic taste in my mouth, like when you lick a battery.

  Ellen Forney

  Light, Mind, Batteries

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• I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn't know what was the matter with me. It was as if I'd died or something. Now that I go to a clinic and get the right kind of medicine, I am not as depressed as I used to be.

  Daniel Johnston

  Medicine, Wish, Juniors

  Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2011.

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• I'm kind of a manic exerciser. I'll like exercise for a week and be crazy, and then I won't do it for six months.

  Jane Lynch

  Crazy, Exercise, Six Months

  "See Jane Laugh". Interview with Allan Fallow, www.aarp.org. September 13, 2011.

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