Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes
If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
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It seems the most logical thing in the world to believe that the natural resources of the Earth, upon which the race depends for food, clothing and shelter, should be owned collectively by the race instead of being the private property of a few social parasites.
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I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town which sprang up in the desert after the Irishman Paddy Hannan struck gold there in 1892.
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So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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Marriage is traditionally old-school in many respects. It is highly antiquated, and, that being said, beautiful.
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Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.
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I always liked the story of Noah's Ark and the idea of starting anew by rescuing the things you like and leaving the rest behind.
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I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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I like to give back.
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Part of me wants to stay involved in wrestling, because I love it. But the thing I loved most about it was the wrestling part of it. I didn't get into it to be famous or to be a TV star: I got into it because I loved the act of wrestling.
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Guys get concussions, they don't tell the coaches. It happens.
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My dear, I think of you always and at night I build myself a warm nest of things I remember and float in your sweetness till morning.
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Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine!
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I remember Nessim once saying - that Alexandria was the great winepress of love;those who emerged from it were the sick men, the solitaries, the prophets-I mean all who have been deeply wounded in their sex.
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Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.
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If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?
