I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
Marguerite Duras
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I would still work with Mel Gibson! He's talented, man! Come on, he came up with 'Apocalypto,' man! I want to work with this guy. I've worked with Steven Seagal. He's out of his mind. I mean, I've worked with Spike Lee for four films. I've worked with some people that you can say are right there teetering between genius and madness.
Isaiah Washington
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The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn.
Dario Argento
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I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.
Sally Phillips
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
Mal Peet
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
G. M. Trevelyan
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
D. H. Lawrence
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I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.
John Forbes Nash, Jr.
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I went into photography because it seemed like the perfect vehicle for commenting on the madness of today's existence.
Robert Mapplethorpe
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The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
Anacharsis
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If you actually read the 'New Gods' tetralogy, this epic without an ending, it's like dipping your head into madness. You feel a little bit like the Joker for a little while. And I mean that in the best way possible.
Tom King
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Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Miguel de Cervantes
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When Steny Hoyer brings up a resolution to support and recognize the University of Maryland men's basketball team - I'm not making this up - before we even had March madness, then you just know that it's just political favoritism.
Jason Chaffetz
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All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Christopher Morley
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I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
Anne Rice
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I'm really a classicist at heart - with a bit of madness!
Phillip Lim
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When love is not madness, it is not love.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.
Thomas Fuller
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I'm not the kind of guy that inspires madness in people.
Ryan Kwanten
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In the madness, you have to find calm.
Lupita Nyong'o
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I think all that we would know of America back home is foreign policy, and maybe the snippets of the madness of political culture.
Hozier
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Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
Henry Miller
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It's odd that invoking the possibility of alien influences should itself be a sign of madness. I don't see the need for it to explain history on earth, but I can't see any reason why the universe shouldn't be full of life.
Graham Hancock
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We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
Emil Cioran
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