Susanna Kaysen Quotes

Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside.

Susanna Kaysen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 11, 1948

Topics

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Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.

Jill Lepore

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

John Galsworthy

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I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.

Melanie Laurent

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Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

Michael Eisner

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Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

Stellan Skarsgard

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A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.

Sigmund Freud

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I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation.

Trevor Dunn

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The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

Roy L. Smith

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Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.

Rosecrans Baldwin

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I used to get recognized quite often as being a 'Soul Train' dancer. Quite often, which was great at times but sometimes was not so great. Especially, back at college, it was not so great. It was pretty tough.

Rosie Perez

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Back then I thought if you cut a record, you were automatically a star.

Mickey Gilley

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Until we respect bin Laden, we are going to die in numbers that are probably unnecessary.

Michael Scheuer

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