Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
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I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness.
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I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself.
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I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.
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I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker.
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I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned.
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I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.
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I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?
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I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother.
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I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.
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I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.
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I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.
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I'm going to be 58, and I'm a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill.
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I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.
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I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up.
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I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.
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If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient.
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It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.
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No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.
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Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.
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The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
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The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.
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The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death.
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We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.
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When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing.
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When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.
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You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity.
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