Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes
It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
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I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.
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I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
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Strength is the outcome of need; security sets a premium on feebleness. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life -- the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure -- had gone steadily on to a climax... And the harvest was what I saw.
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I was a pretty good fighter. But it was the writers who made me great.
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To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
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I don't really want to be in the business of observing conversations.
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It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.
