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To seek trouble - this is not courage, this is madness. Courage is the willingness of man to sensibly face the troubles he cannot avoid.
Alija Izetbegovic
Man
Courage
Madness
Face
Trouble
Willingness
Seek
Troubles
He
Cannot
Sensibly
Avoid
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
Allen Ginsberg
Best
Generation
Madness
Naked
Starving
Minds
Saw
Destroyed
My Generation
Hysterical
I wasn't even going to do acting. I don't know how it even happened, to be honest. I was going to go into psychology or something like that. Or business. And then some moment of madness took over and I decided, 'Oh, I'm gonna go to London and try to be an actor.'
Amrita Acharia
Business
Madness
Try
To Be Honest
Took
London
Some
Something
Over
Like
Know
How
Go
Going
Oh
Happened
Decided
Psychology
Gonna
Then
Acting
Moment
Even
Actor
Honest
The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.
Anacharsis
Health
Madness
First
Draught
Pleasure
Shame
Second
Fourth
Third
I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
Anne Rice
Book
Madness
Old
Before
Farm
Read
Amazed
Began
Curiosity
Shop
Utter
Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing.
Anne Sexton
Time
Madness
Nothing
Creates
Waste
Waste Of Time
Success can create more madness than happiness.
Billy Ocean
Happiness
Success
Madness
More
Than
Create
Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.
Bono
Marriage
People
Madness
Seriously
Think
Would
More
Take
Knew
Perhaps
Grand
When you are developing something, you have to look at it individually. You can't compare and contrast it to the projects around it, because that way madness lies.
Bryan Fuller
You
Madness
Way
Projects
Lies
Something
Developing
Individually
Look
Because
Around
Contrast
Compare
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
Camille Paglia
Life
Reality
Madness
Books
Television
TV
Than
Closer
Human
Anything
Human Life
Actually
I like playing someone with a certain stability at the periphery of the madness.
Carrie Brownstein
Madness
Someone
Like
Periphery
Stability
Certain
Playing
There's nothing more that I enjoy doing as much as touring. It's basically being able to connect with the fans without all the madness that goes on in my regular life.
Cher Lloyd
Life
Madness
Fans
Nothing
Enjoy
Able
More
Touring
Without
Doing
Goes
Being
Much
Regular
Connect
Basically
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
Christopher Morley
Beautiful
Madness
Beauty
Mad
Cities
Grim
Gallant
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Christopher Morley
Courage
Madness
Poet
Leads
Door
Keep
'Fill Me In' went to number one at the same time Destiny's Child released 'Say My Name.' Having a number one over Destiny's Child at their peak was just madness to me.
Craig David
Time
Me
Madness
Say
Destiny
Released
Having
Over
Name
Child
Same
Just
Same Time
Fill
Peak
Number
There's not that many people from the sixties who have progressed as writers and are continuing on. They're out there. But I'm one of them who's just continued on, following his own little inner madness.
Creed Bratton
People
Madness
Own
Out
Following
Writers
Continue
Continuing
His
Just
Sixties
Little
Them
Who
Many
Inner
You want fans to connect to the book, even movie fans. But if your sole purpose is to write towards a certain kind of fan, that way leads madness.
Cullen Bunn
You
Book
Madness
Fans
Sole
Way
Sole Purpose
Kind
Purpose
Write
Towards
Leads
Want
Movie
Fan
Certain
Your
Connect
Even
Trying to write music that's sensitive to 400 years ago takes a bit of madness, as it's such a long stretch of time.
Damon Albarn
Music
Time
Madness
Long
Bit
Write
Takes
Years
Years Ago
Trying
Sensitive
Stretch
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
You
Natural
Writing
Dangerous
Madness
Insanity
Approach
Extremes
Drawn
Embrace
See
Something
Directing
Drives
Feel
Know
Also
Go
Affinity
Afraid
Want
Process
Why
March Madness is an incredible three weeks. I firmly believe it's the greatest three weeks in sports. You have the Super Bowl; you have the World Series.
Dick Vitale
You
Sports
World
Madness
Three
Believe
Incredible
Super
Super Bowl
Weeks
Firmly
Bowl
Greatest
Series
March
World Series
When I did 'Cyrano' for Roundabout, I was originally supposed to direct and play the title role, but I quickly realized that was madness, and we called in Jamie Lloyd, who directed me in Osborne's 'Inadmissible Evidence.'
Douglas Hodge
Me
Madness
Evidence
Direct
Directed
Supposed
Quickly
Role
Did
Jamie
Title
Realized
Who
Originally
Play
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
Edgar Lee Masters
Life
Madness
Longing
Torture
Restlessness
Put
Without
End
May
Afraid
Boat
Meaning
Sea
Vague
I remember the first horror movie I saw - I was five years old; it was a direct-to-video movie called 'Truth or Dare: a Critical Madness,' which is sort of badly fantastic or fantastically bad. And then 'Gremlins' was an early movie that I saw, and 'Nightmare on Elm Street 3.'
Elijah Wood
Truth
Madness
Remember
Old
First
Saw
Dare
Critical
Bad
Horror
Horror Movie
Badly
Sort
Years
Five
Gremlin
Movie
Which
Fantastic
Then
Street
Early
Nightmare
I regret so much. I've made mistakes. I've hurt people. I've done things I'm not proud of. But on the other hand, that way lies madness, you know?
Faye Dunaway
You
Hurt
People
Regret
Madness
Made
Mistakes
Other
Way
Lies
Know
Proud
Hand
Done
Much
Things
It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.
Frank Auerbach
Morning
Me
Madness
Wake Up
Other
Considering
Following
Seems
Something
Wake
Up
Than
May
Paint
There was a kind of madness in the country. Eamon De Valera, the prime minister, had this vision of an Ireland where we'd all be in some kind of native costume - which doesn't exist - and we'd be dancing at the crossroads, babbling away in Gaelic, going to Mass, everyone virginal and pure.
Frank McCourt
Vision
Madness
Pure
Country
Everyone
Dancing
Kind
Minister
Some
Crossroads
Costume
Had
Prime
Mass
Prime Minister
Exist
Ireland
Going
Native
Where
Gaelic
Which
Away
Babbling
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