Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes
A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I can spend hours in a grocery store. I get so excited when I see food, I go crazy. I spend hours arranging my baskets so that everything fits in and nothing gets squashed. I'm really anal about it, actually.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Why should we add your book to the atomic weapons arrayed against us by our enemies. Publication of your book would help our enemies.
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My parents live near the ocean, and I've spent a lot of time walking through the water at night, being around the water.
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I love the sport. I love fighting. Fighting is my life.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I obviously did not volunteer to go to Afghanistan solely to protect the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans.
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In general, the Internet was not designed to accommodate deliberate failures to communicate.
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It's good for art to make us think, to give us a shared experience that creates a dialogue, makes us talk to each other, including strangers.
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When I saw the rough cuts of 'The Village of Peace,' I was immediately intrigued and wanted to share this story on the global stage.
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I do know that there isn't ever going to be a time when there aren't any knitters.
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A possible link between 'madness' and genius is one of the oldest and most persistent of cultural notions.
