Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes

A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

Kay Redfield Jamison

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• I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Greatest

• Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Live
  • Small
  • City

• When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.

  

  Yvonne Craig
  • Up
  • Great
  • Long

• When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, and - do we dare breathe the name - William Faulkner.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Reading
  • Name
  • Breathe

• I don't have the self-discipline for diets; I break rules I set for myself, so I try and eat more healthily, juice more, and avoid sugar.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Myself
  • Discipline
  • Try

• I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Remember
  • Interesting
  • Mom

• Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Business
  • Relationship

• I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Time
  • Commitment
  • Test

• I think the main thing we can do, whether you agree or not, I don't think that's the real issue, the real issue is this November and there's an election.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Real
  • Think
  • Election

• A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Job
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• Why should we add your book to the atomic weapons arrayed against us by our enemies. Publication of your book would help our enemies.

  

  Vasily Grossman
  • Why
  • Book
  • Help

• My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water.

  

  Win Butler
  • Time
  • Live
  • Night

• I love the sport. I love fighting. Fighting is my life.

  

  Anderson Silva
  • Life
  • Fighting

• I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• I've been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author has a specific critique about contemporary society in mind, fiction tends not to be the best means to deliver that critique.

  

  Ken Liu
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

  

  Peabo Bryson
  • People
  • Music
  • Giving

• I joined an improv comedy group. Ours was named 'Quick Fire!' with an exclamation point. It was when I auditioned for that team and got on it and felt like... I'll just say I felt like I was good at it.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Good
  • Team
  • Comedy

• I am a control freak. I want to do what I want to do.

  

  Kiana Tom
  • Control

• I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Different
  • History
  • Enjoy

• I don't talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood. I don't believe that it's a necessary element. I feel that I'm a character, and I'm an actor. People focusing on my age instead of the role I'm playing can be a hindrance.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • People
  • Believe
  • Character

• I've done a lot of different tours. For me, I try to go on tours that I think are gonna be fun. It's, like, grueling, and it's hard, and there's got to be an element to it that's exciting.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • Different
  • Done
  • Fun

• I say eat fast and die young.

  

  Cory Monteith
  • Die

• The government does not have a lot of answers, so the more we rely on the government, the more dependent we become, and the more we put our faith into the hands of others. I like the Chinese proverb that says you can give someone a fish or you can teach him how to fish. Enough of taking fish, it’s time to teach people how to fish, how to create their own wealth. This is my mantra.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Government
  • Chinese
  • Wealth

• A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison