I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features.
Kate Braverman
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ANNETTE BENING My psychiatrist said "you're BI Polar. I said "tell us something we don't already know".
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ELSA LANCHESTER I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
PATRICK MARBER I don't find I'm manic at all. I'm very chill.
KIRSTEN DUNST I'm bi-winning. I win here, I win there.
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MELODIE CAMPBELL I'm still very much Kate.
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KATHRYN LASKY Technically, I'm a New Yorker.
CHARLIE DAY Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they ar...
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KATY PERRY I won't sleep
if that's what it takes
to not wake up
as myself
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CHARLOTTE MCKINNEY I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself th...
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ROBIN WRIGHT These are markets where overreaction follows overreaction. It's manic or it's depressive. It never g...
TOM KLOZA I'm not technically proficient enough to attempt all kinds of music.
NOEL GALLAGHER It just reflects Wall Street's manic-depressive mood. In the meantime, you have some selective cauti...
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R. A. SALVATORE At the top of the cycle you write [policies for] everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you...
ROBERT HUNTER I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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ABBAS KIAROSTAMI Filming is always a challenge because I'm not used to it. But I approach it head-on. I'm not...
MARTIN PARR Many parts of the granite statues were found, the most important of which had features close to Rams...
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KATE BRAVERMAN Technically, I'm a knight. My family goes back a thousand years in the Naples area. We're a ...
PAUL SORVINO Until the end of elementary school, I lived in a suburban area, so the type of village I used to liv...
BONG JOON-HO I'm a good person, but with many defects.
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BARRY JENKINS Politics: Poly.
MANY Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I ...
JAIME WINSTONE Coming from the U.K., I can think of so many great songs and musical moments that didn't require...
CARMEN EJOGO I don't assign myself to the names of any religious or non religious groups I prefer my actions and...
STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH Moving forward, BI will become part of business innovation itself. Sharing information with customer...
FRANK BUYTENDIJK One of the elements in the film that really fascinated me was not to look at the world in bi-polar t...
KATHRYN BIGELOW I am a smiling depressive.
TRISHA GODDARD Nestankom interneta svet kakav poznajemo bi se raspao i prestao da postoji. U tom usporenom, postapo...
ALEKSANDAR ILIć I've diced with death the most cycling around London. Black cabs are far more dangerous than pol...
BEN SAUNDERS I wouldn't ever give myself the label bisexual, but bi-curious, yeah.
ADAM LAMBERT I can't do pieces I only admire technically. I have to feel some direct contact with them.
MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS Usually in features, I'm the lead. I consider the director the captain, but I consider myself th...
EDDIE ALBERT We didn't know that he had bi-polar but it's true of anyone with mental health issues that when they...
JOE KELLY 'Syndicate' is technically the first game I worked on.
RICHARD K. MORGAN Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.
TEA LEONI There's so many things I'm dying to do. I wanna do a movie with horses.
BETHANY JOY LENZ I'm lucky on so many counts - I'm lucky to be alive.
CORY MONTEITH I have a very healthy dream life. I dream a lot many, many, many nights a week. When I'm shootin...
EMMANUEL LUBEZKI There are days when I'm completely obsessed with Kate Bush, and there are days when I'm comp...
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RAGHURAM RAJAN I think people in electronic music are trying to get these big features: 'Oh my gosh, I'm go...
KASKADE I am not a depressive person at all.
ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU Now that I've established myself in a drama, I'm plugging away, trying to get the attention ...
SHEMAR MOORE My kitchen bench is covered with vitamins and protein powders. I go through phases when I'm sure...
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JOHN FOWLES BI is now part of an organization's license to operate, as every enterprise needs to manage informat...
FRANK BUYTENDIJK I'm looking forward to providing the men of Seattle with an evening where they can kick back, li...
TOM LEYKIS I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne.
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EVE I was diagnosed with ADD - see also: raised on sugary cereals and cartoons - and manic depression. S...
PETE WENTZ Many-headed multitude. -Coriolanus. Act ii. Sc. 3.
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JEROLD J. KREISMAN Even I had no opportunity to conduct very many concerts after World War II.
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KATE CHRISTENSEN There's a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I remember the moment I first became aware of aging. I was 30. I looked down at my knees, and the sk...
KATE CHRISTENSEN It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn'...
KATE CHRISTENSEN My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Ma...
KATE CHRISTENSEN I've never been an outward rebel, but inside, I just rebel deeply.
KATE CHRISTENSEN In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and sti...
KATE CHOPIN The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penet...
KATE CHOPIN Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of...
KATE CHOPIN When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease - of joy that kills.
KATE CHOPIN But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exce...
KATE CHOPIN To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been ac...
KATE CHOPIN I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the...
KATE CHOPIN A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect ...
KATE CHOPIN It is greater than the stars - that moving procession of human energy; greater than the palpitating ...
KATE CHOPIN She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the s...
KATE CHOPIN There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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