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"My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle."
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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."
Forget
"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."
Music
"The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say."
Doctors
"We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy."
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"Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called Life."
Life
"The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death."
Death
"Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them."
Life
"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?"
Time
"I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now."
Family
"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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"There isn't any doubt I'm stuck in stress and depression."
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"Depression is something that makes you lose your sight."
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"I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him."
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"I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to."
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"Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for."
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"I'm what you call a Depression sailor."
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"I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn't see any way to change things.Only end them."
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"If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help."
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"The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower."
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"This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression. The character has traits of myself. I really lost friends while writing on that story, I became ugly and unhappy and just yelled at people. The cruel thing with depression is that it's such a self-centered illness - Dostoevsky shows that pretty good in his "Notes from Underground". The depression is painful, you're sapped/consumed by yourself; the worse the depression, the more you just think about yourself and the stranger and repellent you appear to others."
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