"People get really irritated by mental illness."

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Source : "Stand-up Comedy and Mental Illness: A Conversation with Maria Bamford". Interview with David Haglund, www.slate.com. May 10, 2012.

Maria Bamford

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“I think as a kid I never really understood the magnitude of a hurricane and what it could do.”

Source : St. Louis Post Dispatch, August 31, 2005.
“I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. My mother was a single mom, putting my three sisters through college, and I was such a bad student that I knew I had no right to take her money. But I loved being in classes and learning. I took in a huge amount of what I learned, but I had a feeling of always being behind and being in trouble.”
“Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.”
“When you see what is not real, this laughter comes”
“But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain.”
“They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.”
“If I wanted to own some Jack Kirby original art unless it was something that Giacoia or Sinnott had inked I was too close to it. I didn't want to collect his pages inked by me. Of course 40 years later I'd LOVE to have some of that stuff.”
“I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.”

Source : "Caio Fonseca Comes Out Of Isolation". Interview with Meghan Dailey, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 28, 2012.

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