Manic Quotes - Page 4

• In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it's the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Voice, Imagination

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

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• I was a manic and eccentric kid. In my head I was very busy, so I must have seemed weird.

  David A. Stewart

  Kids, Eccentric, Busy

  "This much I know: Dave Stewart". Interview with Megan Conner, www.theguardian.com. August 11, 2012.

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• If you're in this business, like any high-stakes business, the highs and lows can make you a manic-depressive person, if you weren't that way to start with. 'Cause it's just so crazy on your psyche. A lot of it has to do with people thinking they're greater than someone else.

  Joan Cusack

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, film.avclub.com. May 26, 2008.

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• The Internet is manic. It's very strange. I don't think it's healthy. They should outlaw posting comments! It's a bummer to go somewhere to get information or buy tickets and you encounter profanity everywhere you go.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Thinking, Healthy, Encounters

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was brought up with a lot of love in my family, and I've always been supported. My family has always protected me in a sort of manic way.

  Erik Hassle

  My Family

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses.

  Jim Shaw

  Neurosis, Aspergers, Schizophrenia

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Elgar is not manic enough to be Russian, not witty or pointilliste enough to be French, not harmonically simple enough to be Italian and not stodgy enough to be German. We arrive at his Englishry by pure elimination.

  Anthony Burgess

  Witty, Italian, Simple

  Anthony Burgess (1986). “Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays”, Vintage

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• All writers are egomaniacal, manic-depressive, drug-addicted alcoholics. You want to have that fix again.

  T.C. Boyle

  Drug, Want, Depressive

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Wearing short skirts while dancing to a manic routine without showing your knickers or looking indecent is a talent, as far as I'm concerned.

  Victoria Beckham

  Dancing, Talent, Concerned

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Unfortunately, people expect a Russian opposition politician to be a manic libertarian who thinks the oligarchs are great, who isn't interested in the problems of retirees and who believes the invisible hand of the market will resolve everything.

  Alexei Navalny

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There were definitely scenes I struggled with more than others: the car accident and the thunderstorm are two that come to mind. It's difficult to write about a thunderstorm. There are only so many ways to describe it and our vocabulary is so limited. And the car accident scene required a tense, manic quality that had to be conveyed in the language, as well as the character's dialogue and actions. I was editing these scenes long after I thought I was finished with them.

  Mary J. Miller

  Character, Writing, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Most actors and actresses are performative as people. It goes part and parcel with the profession and New York actors who are out of work, or actors anywhere out of work, are manic because you never know when the next job is going to come.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Jobs, New York, People

  "Zoe Lister-Jones Talks LOLA VERSUS, Her Ambitions to Direct and Write a Novel, and Her Next Film MOTHERFUCKER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 7, 2012.

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• Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am no exception.

  T.C. Boyle

  Alcohol, Drug, Narcissistic

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Kids before they're 7 or 8 are like little manic obsessives. They become completely hooked on things and they're slightly crazy.

  Clive Owen

  Crazy, Kids

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• or The Last Exorcism, I researched a lot of real exorcisms. I watched videos of exorcisms, I listened to tapes, and I read actual accounts of priests' logs. I also looked at a lot of the physicality. I would look into fits of hysteria and look at energies of people in manic, hysteric fits.

  Ashley Bell

  Real, Hysteria, People

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• I was joking earlier when I said that all writers are manic depressives, but it's a joke with a lot of truth behind it. For fiction writers and poets, too, there's something wrong with you and you do this art as a way of correcting it or addressing it in some way.

  T.C. Boyle

  Art, Fiction, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My mom was a manic depressive schizophrenic who, after a year in prison, went home and shot herself. My sister, Kirsten, an amazing poet, who was raised by this woman, and was dating a guy who broke up with her for the fourth time in three weeks. And one day, she came to his house, got a gun, and blew her brains out all over his headboard. I just went through a divorce, five years in court and cost me $2 million dollars. If anyone, by law, should be forced to take antidepressants it's me... But instead, I choose to be an antidepressant. And you can take me with alcohol.

  Christopher Titus

  Mom, Home, Divorce

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

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• Work ethic and this determination is all part of escaping the depressive side. Of course I'm manic depressive, maybe not to the degree that Exley was, but I think all writers are. There are highs and lows. Look at David Foster Wallace.

  T.C. Boyle

  Determination, Thinking, Escaping

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Saw fans are manic, when it comes to details, so they're going to say, "Wait a minute! Why is that like that? It wasn't like that before." And, they're right.

  Tobin Bell

  Waiting, Fans, Details

  "Tobin Bell and Costas Mandylor Interview SAW VI". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. October 17, 2009.

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• It's the luxury of time that lets me in some ways now spoil myself. I get my workout in every day. I get a good, long sleep every day. I won't say they're guilty pleasures. When I first left Microsoft, I would say I spent the better part of a year saying, "OK, how do I get as busy and crazy and manic as I was at Microsoft?" Since then I said, "No, I'll make a bigger contribution in this phase of my life by being able to pick and choose, not being so manic, having time to step back, a little more time for what I'll call discernment rather than just activity."

  Steve Ballmer

  Workout, Crazy, Sleep

  "Steve Ballmer talks about the current state of Microsoft, his Twitter investment, and how sports tech can help the Clippers". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• General anxiety is the bridge between the manic joys of creation, exploration, new revelations, professional acceptance and reward, and the depression of self-critique, professional rejection and stagnation. All are part of the roller coaster ride of an artist's life.

  Oliver $

  Acceptance, Artist, Self

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• The patient needs to believe that they can keep the fire while being medicated. The doctors must tell them, "I understand that you experienced something beautiful. I understand that you saw the stars pulsing spirals of fire across the sky like Van Gogh did when he was looking outside the sanitarium window. But you know what? He didn't paint ['Starry Night'] when he was manic. He painted it when he was sane because he didn't need the mania to have the magic."

  Paul Dalio

  Beautiful, Stars, Believe

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I feel much more emotion than I did before, and more meaningful emotion and richer emotion than when I was manic. I'm able to experience meaningful things that can only be experienced when I'm stable, like a family.

  Paul Dalio

  Meaningful, Able, Emotion

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• If you're manic-depressive and you're functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I'm getting through right now.

  Carrie Fisher

  Thinking, World, Proud

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If I were to peruse a survey of label options, as they exist now, they either sound like a time bomb disorder or manic depression or Bipolar divide or mental illness. How can I find an identity in that? It certainly isn't something I can bring up in conversation, without a reaction of judgement or even fear.

  Paul Dalio

  Judgement, Bipolar, Identity

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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