"Schizophrenia is hearing voices, not doing voices."

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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

#Voice Quotes #Hearing Quotes #Schizophrenia Quotes

“I am convinced that different people awaken different beasts in you.”
“Am I awake or dreaming? It doesn’t matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.”

Source : Michael Anthony (2009). “Mass Casualties: A Young Medic's True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq”, p.188, Adams Media
“The inspiration is all in the script, in the text. So whatever it is, either it is a film or a book to be illustrated, anything. Everything you need to know is in the text. So the thing is trying to find right tone and voice, the right style, the right way of expressing the emotions in a story or in the location of the story, but it is all in the text.”

Source : Source: www.thestorymint.com
“Death is inevitable from the perspective that, if you're done here on earth, you have completed what is necessary to have been done here and you are now ready to further the discovery/growth of self which occur in the dimensions - it's time to go.”
“Cultivating literature as I do upon a little oatmeal, and driving, when in a position to be driven at all, in that humble vehicle, the 'bus, I have had, perhaps, exceptional opportunities for observing their mutual position and behaviour; and it is very peculiar.”

Source : James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”
“I believe my father has and always will be the strongest influence in my life, as he has guided me on many paths.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree”

Source : Anchee Min (2006). “Empress Orchid”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing
“You can call it institutionalized racism or institutionalized inequality, but what I say is that any system that operates to maintain inequality is a corrupt system and must be addressed.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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