Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes

One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.

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• No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Thinking
  • Words
  • Saying

• I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Me

• I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Life
  • Technology
  • Myself

• We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Lost
  • Space
  • London

• I love anything to do with history.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Love
  • History
  • Anything

• A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Boy
  • Independent
  • Ice

• I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Genuine

• One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Important
  • Me
  • Religious

• When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Purpose
  • Mad
  • Partner

• You have to relish the challenge of television.

  

  Laura Linney
  • You
  • Challenge
  • Television

• Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Men
  • Government
  • Turn

• But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way.

  

  Frances Perkins
  • Progress
  • Depression
  • Slow

• I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Time
  • Book
  • Friend

• There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Energy
  • Grow
  • Chemistry

• To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Life
  • Real
  • Need

• For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Great
  • Freedom
  • Security

• 'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Death
  • Lies

• I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Why

• I've done a lot of things and I've been a lot of people, but now I've come to realize who I am.

  

  Bobby Darin
  • People
  • Done

• Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

  

  John le Carre
  • Movie
  • Energy
  • Imagination

• Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Unhappy

• My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.

  

  Al Jarreau
  • Time
  • Music
  • Eyes

• One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.

  

  Kay Redfield Jamison
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  • Depression