Manic Quotes - Page 4

• With a lot of comedians, one of their major attributes is that they look comedic, with a certain hangdog or manic expression. I look like the neighborhood bully. That doesn't elicit laughter.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Laughter, Expression, Bully

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• I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.

  David A. Stewart

  Kids, Eccentric, Busy

  "This much I know: Dave Stewart". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2012.

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• If you're in this business, like any high-stakes business, the highs and lows can make you a manic-depressive person, if you weren't that way to start with. 'Cause it's just so crazy on your psyche. A lot of it has to do with people thinking they're greater than someone else.

  Joan Cusack

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• Most actors and actresses are performative as people. It goes part and parcel with the profession and New York actors who are out of work, or actors anywhere out of work, are manic because you never know when the next job is going to come.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Jobs, New York, People

  "Zoe Lister-Jones Talks LOLA VERSUS, Her Ambitions to Direct and Write a Novel, and Her Next Film MOTHERFUCKER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 7, 2012.

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• There were definitely scenes I struggled with more than others: the car accident and the thunderstorm are two that come to mind. It's difficult to write about a thunderstorm. There are only so many ways to describe it and our vocabulary is so limited. And the car accident scene required a tense, manic quality that had to be conveyed in the language, as well as the character's dialogue and actions. I was editing these scenes long after I thought I was finished with them.

  Mary J. Miller

  Character, Writing, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Work ethic and this determination is all part of escaping the depressive side. Of course I'm manic depressive, maybe not to the degree that Exley was, but I think all writers are. There are highs and lows. Look at David Foster Wallace.

  T.C. Boyle

  Determination, Thinking, Escaping

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth behind it. For fiction writers and poets, too, there's something wrong with you and you do this art as a way of correcting it or addressing it in some way.

  T.C. Boyle

  Art, Fiction, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Kids before they're 7 or 8 are like little manic obsessives. They become completely hooked on things and they're slightly crazy.

  Clive Owen

  Crazy, Kids

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses.

  Jim Shaw

  Neurosis, Aspergers, Schizophrenia

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Elgar is not manic enough to be Russian, not witty or pointilliste enough to be French, not harmonically simple enough to be Italian and not stodgy enough to be German. We arrive at his Englishry by pure elimination.

  Anthony Burgess

  Witty, Italian, Simple

  Anthony Burgess (1986). “Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays”, Vintage

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• I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures that those who have it will experience a frightening, chaotic and emotional ride. It is not a gentle or easy disease.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Emotional, Years, Bipolar

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• Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.

  Robert Breault

  Envy, Society, Half

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• The Chinese believe that before you can conquer a beast you first must make it beautiful. In some strange way, I have tried to do that with manic-depressive illness. It has been a fascinating, albeit deadly, enemy and companion; I have found it to be seductively complicated, a distillation both of what is finest in our natures, and of what is most dangerous.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Beautiful, Believe, Chinese

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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• Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

  Karl Abraham

  Normal, Patient, Instinct

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.”

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• People who go into the arts are often hurt people. Many are manic-depressive. Some have tried suicide and some have succeeded. It's just part of the game. We are people who are oversensitive. That's why we're in this business, because of our need to communicate.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Suicide, Art, Hurt

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• I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans. You can be passionate about a show, but I don't think that people are obsessed to the point where it's so manic that they lose themselves and they lose a sense of their center of morality.

  Matthew Davis

  Integrity, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• My mom was a manic depressive schizophrenic who, after a year in prison, went home and shot herself. My sister, Kirsten, an amazing poet, who was raised by this woman, and was dating a guy who broke up with her for the fourth time in three weeks. And one day, she came to his house, got a gun, and blew her brains out all over his headboard. I just went through a divorce, five years in court and cost me $2 million dollars. If anyone, by law, should be forced to take antidepressants it's me... But instead, I choose to be an antidepressant. And you can take me with alcohol.

  Christopher Titus

  Mom, Home, Divorce

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Internet is manic. It's very strange. I don't think it's healthy. They should outlaw posting comments! It's a bummer to go somewhere to get information or buy tickets and you encounter profanity everywhere you go.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Thinking, Healthy, Encounters

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• or The Last Exorcism, I researched a lot of real exorcisms. I watched videos of exorcisms, I listened to tapes, and I read actual accounts of priests' logs. I also looked at a lot of the physicality. I would look into fits of hysteria and look at energies of people in manic, hysteric fits.

  Ashley Bell

  Real, Hysteria, People

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• I've noticed that nowadays I'm doing a lot of stuff on the phone and on the computer, which I usually wouldn't do earlier. And I can feel my brain being rewired: I'm getting anxious, I'm getting more manic. Now, I'm an extreme case because I'm old and I'm overdoing it. But still, it's really interesting that I can actually feel a change in my neurochemistry from this interaction with the technology.

  George Saunders

  Technology, Phones, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you spent a proper amount of time with me, you would probably wonder if I was on drugs - I'm not. I'm just incredibly hyperactive and manic. I can be quiet and serious at the same time.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Drug, Serious, Quiet

  "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Cast Interviews!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. July 13, 2009.

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• My dad is actually a manic depressive, which is very exciting half the time.

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Dad, Humor

  "Marc Maron - Bipolar Coaster". "Comedy Central Presents", Season 11, Episode 1, www.cc.com. January 12, 2007.

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• The day came. The wrath descended. Sin, guilt, and retribution? The manic psychoses of those entities we referred to as states, institutions, systems - the powers, the thrones, the dominations - the things which perpetually merge with men and emerge from them? Our darkness, externalized and visible? However you look upon these matters, the critical point was reached. The wrath descended.

  Philip K. Dick

  Men, Psychosis, Wrath

  Philip K. Dick (2013). “Deus Irae”, p.176, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

  Brian Wilson

  Voice, Mental Illness, Now And Then

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• Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work.

  Adam Ant

  Dog, Stress, Bipolar

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