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 don't make a division between an art film and commercial art.
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Think about the progression of a young relationship. Two people meet for the first time in person. Talk, drink, get to know each other. Next, if there is a next, is the apartments. The unfamiliar number on the door, a brass handle where yours is steel. The strange but pleasant smell of another person’s sheets. Shampoos in the shower, used, but new to you. Loganberry: Okay, why not? Back at your place next time, she opens the fridge, and it’s just … mustards. Sorry.
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I couldn't speak English. I'm in kindergarten, and the only reason I got through to first grade is because I cheated.
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I started out in life as a poet, I was only writing poetry all through my 20s, it wasn't until I was about 30 that I got serious about writing prose. While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them.
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The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
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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.
