Neurotic Quotes - Page 12

• Psychoanalysis showed me that I might be neurotic because I was a girl but, as Chekhov might have put it, I alone had to squeeze the slave out of myself, drop by drop.

  Vivian Gornick

  Girl, Might, Slave

  "We knew we were not liberated and were never going to be liberated. But we knew what liberation was". The Believer Interview, believermag.com. March 2014.

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• I have a number of symptoms that are neurotic and are constricting in the sense that if I had a brilliant idea for a film that had to be shot in Tulsa, OK I would tear it up and throw it away. Anything outside of New York, 'cause I can't exist in a hotel outside of my own home, I have to be in my own home and my own environment. This is a neurotic symptom that is constricting to my work even.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Home, Ideas

  Source: cinema.com

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• You make films whether they're dramas or comedies about neurotic people. Flawed people. Interesting personality traits. To make them about calm, stable untroubled people isn't interesting.

  Woody Allen

  Drama, People, Interesting

  CrankyCritic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.

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• The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.

  Aldous Huxley

  Real, Struggle, Voice

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• I'm quite neurotic, usually. But when it comes to work, I become extremely focused.

  Julie Delpy

  Focused

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2007.

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• The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

  Ed Bliss

  Perfection, Healthy, Excellence

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• There are days that I get neurotic with the instrument [violin]. Every little adjustment will change the balance for good or for bad. It's kind of a miracle, the way the whole thing works as an acoustical whole, so perfectly balanced that any little thing will - which also means the weather, the humidity.

  Joshua Bell

  Miracle, Balance, Littles

  "Joshua Bell’s Virtuoso Reality". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2011.

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• A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up.

  Mason Cooley

  Giving, Illusion, Enjoy

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• [Neurotics are] torn by inner conflicts ... Every neurotic ... is at war with himself.

  Karen Horney

  War, Conflict, Torn

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• Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hypersensitive, taut, neurotic creatures driven by God know what obscure compulsion to earn their living the hard way.

  Margaret Halsey

  Humorous, Four, Way

  Margaret Halsey (1946). “Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro”

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• I'm very neurotic about shaving. I shave first thing in the morning before a shoot, and if I have dinner that night, I have to shave again.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Morning, Night, Shaving

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

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• Healthy thinking is a habit, just like neurotic thinking is a habit.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking, Healthy, Habit

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Staying on the Path: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm passionately opposed to the nuclear family, with its mom and dad and their 2.4 children. I think it's the most neurotic life-style ever developed.

  Germaine Greer

  Mom, Children, Dad

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• I've always found women more loyal, more disciplined, less neurotic, more hardworking. I just think they're perfect colleagues. Whereas, God knows, I've dealt with plenty of neurotic men.

  Max Hastings

  Men, Thinking, Perfect

  "The view from Hastings" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.

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• Look, I play all these tough guys and thugs and strong, complex characters. In real life, I am a cringing, neurotic Jewish mess. Can't I for once play that on stage?

  Jason Isaacs

  Strong, Real, Character

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

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• I try not to be but Im super-neurotic about diet. Im neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! Im like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And Im super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes.

  Gwen Stefani

  Cute, Girl, Clothes

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• That's one thing I get neurotic about: I need my soup to be crazy hot.

  Chrissy Teigen

  Crazy, Hot, Needs

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

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• Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  People, Forgiving, Hateful

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.145, Penguin

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• Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you.

  Brian Weiss

  Drama, Arrows, Pawns

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• Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.

  Kate Morton

  Allies, Acquisition, Compulsion

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• You can party, but I better not catch you drunk. (Wulf) (Chris rolled his eyes, then bent down to said to Cassandra’s stomach...) Be wise, little guy, stay in there where Lord King Neurotic can’t kill all your fun. (Chris)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Wise, Kings, Fun

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• If something isn't working out in one aspect of my career, it's not any big neurotic, crazy phase for me, it's just something that I accept, and that's okay. I'm not going to keep banging my head against the wall.

  Irene Cara

  Wall, Crazy, Careers

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• Some folks hide and some folks seek, and seeking when its mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous, can be a form of hiding.

  Tom Robbins

  Desperate, Hiding, Still Life With Woodpecker

  "Still Life With Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, October 1980.

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• The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.

  Truman Capote

  Artist, Criminals, Innocence

  Truman Capote (2007). “Other Voices, Other Rooms”, p.65, Vintage

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• The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.

  Sigmund Freud

  Atheism, Tasks, Affliction

  The Future of an Illusion Ch. 8

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