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.
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I loved the world of imagination.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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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.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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I love anything to do with history.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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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.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
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I definitely think, when you're a teenager, it's more forgiving to talk to strangers and go up to people at a mall or whatever.
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Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. She ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund - doing favors for oppressive regimes, and many others, in exchange for cash.
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I missed the Wilco phenom while busy obsessing over rock en Espanol. So imagine my surprise when I found myself at O'Hare getting on a plane with my Chi-town homeboy, Jeff Tweedy. I loved the guy right away and loved his family. How odd to know somebody before you listen to them. I don't know if that's bad or good.
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Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.
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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.
