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• Be careful, you are not in Wonderland. I've heard the strange madness long growing in your soul. But you are fortunate in your ignorance, in your isolation. You who have suffered, find where love hides. Give, share, lose—lest we die, unbloomed.

  Austin Bunn

  Ignorance, Long, Giving

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• Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.

  William S. Burroughs

  Confusion, Confusing, Vision

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• To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That’s why, when people meet you and you seem very together, they are quite surprised - they don’t see you behind closed doors.

  Nicole Kidman

  Doors, People, Together

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Feb 12, 2017

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• I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.

  Meg Ryan

  Thinking, Life Is, Loud

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• Cancer is the growth of madness denied.

  Norman Mailer

  Cancer, Growth, Denied

  Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.254, Random House

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• Hey, don't knock Judy Blume. Without her, my younger self would never have been able to decode the random acts of madness perpetrated by the fascinating creature known as the teenage girl.

  Ken Marino

  Girl, Teenage, Self

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. August 30, 2011.

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• Look, isn't there any way you can just stamp me as not crazy and let me get outta here.

  Kyle Chandler

  Crazy, Looks, Way

  "Fictional character: Gary Hobson". "Early Edition", www.imdb.com. 1996 - 2000.

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• I do really crazy things all the time, but I can't think of anything offhand

  Casper Van Dien

  Crazy, Thinking, I Can

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• What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all are, how delicate we are, even when fizzing with divine madness that seems like it will never expire.

  Russell Brand

  Nice, Dead Poets Society, Hunting

  "Russell Brand: Robin Williams’ Divine Madness Will No Longer Disrupt the Sadness of the World". The Guardian Opinion Page, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2014.

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• I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening

  Sherilyn Fenn

  Crazy, Advantage, Brat

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• The term papers make me more crazy, because they involve more variables I cannot directly control! With acting, I feel more power-like I'm making all the choices.

  Fred Savage

  Crazy, Term Paper, Choices

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

  Kim Stanley

  Excess, Reason, Form

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• Who made art history? Not the most reasonable people. The mad men did. If painting is the mirror of a time, it must be mad to have a true image of what that time is. To one madness we oppose another madness.

  Max Ernst

  Art, Men, Mirrors

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• You get that love from the people. It lets me know that all the madness I go through, all the stuff that the business has to offer with all its madness; it makes it worthwhile.

  Whitney Houston

  People, Stuff, Worthwhile

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• In the madness, you have to find calm.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Calm

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• Actors are crazy or we wouldn't be doing this.

  Eileen Brennan

  Crazy, Actors

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.

  Vanessa Marcil

  Crazy, Men, Clothes

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It seems madness to say, 'We're worried that they're going to become addicted to marijuana' -- there's no evidence whatever that it's an addictive drug, but even if it were, these people are dying, what are we saving them from?

  Carl Sagan

  Marijuana, People, Drug

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• I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.

  Muddy Waters

  Christmas, Running, Crazy

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• England is one of my favorite places. The fans are just so crazy.

  Britney Spears

  Crazy, England, Fans

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I attack a role, be it TV, film or stage, the first thing I say is, I don't want to know anything. If it's good I don't want to hear it; if it's bad I don't want to hear it. The only thing either thing can do is distract me. I like to stay focused

  Cicely Tyson

  Roles, Want, Firsts

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• I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy.

  Ringo Starr

  Crazy, Mean, Important

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• You can choose to be mad in a negative
  way where it fuels you to do
  mean, hateful things, or you can let
  your madness fuel your art and
  channel it in a positive way.

  Allie Gonino

  Art, Mean, Mad

  "Allie Gonino & The Thirst Project". Interview with Jennifer Beyor, issuemagazine.com.

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• This is too much madness to explain in one text.

  Leeon Jones

  Too Much

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• Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin.

  John Hendy

  Two Sides, Genius, Coins

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