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The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare.
Elyn Saks
Mind
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenic
Say
Split
Like
Shattered
Waking
Much
Nightmare
Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
Lily Tomlin
God
Schizophrenic
Talk
Talks
Said
Praying
Us
Why
When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.
Jane Wagner
Funny
God
Schizophrenic
Talk
Talks
Praying
Us
I think that Fox News is a bit schizophrenic.
John McCain
News
Schizophrenic
Think
Bit
Fox
Fox News
The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation.
R. D. Laing
Experience
Behavior
Schizophrenic
Situation
Live
Strategy
Labeled
Person
Gets
Order
Special
If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic.
Thomas Szasz
God
You
Schizophrenic
Talk
Dead
Talks
To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.
Sophie Kinsella
Writing
Schizophrenic
Living
Our
Books
Our Lives
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Some
Lead
Most
Authors
Confinement
Little
Breathing
Lives
Extent
It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.
Andy Partridge
Schizophrenic
Other
Kinks
Faces
Small
Like
Because
Hand
Lot
Very
Stones
Avant-Garde
Straight
Pop
Things
I'm not a paranoid schizophrenic.
Augustus Sol Invictus
Schizophrenic
Paranoid
The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a row of going out to parties, I just have to be alone. I hate people and feel like they're keeping me from what I really want to do, like write a fabulous novel, which I probably never will.
Bob Colacello
Funny
Alone
Me
Hate
People
Will
Schizophrenic
Nights
Funny Thing
Out
Kind
Fabulous
About
Write
Never
Feel
Like
Parties
Because
Five
Going
Just
Want
After
Which
Really
Novel
Keeping
Thing
Row
Four
Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.
Bruce Campbell
Character
Schizophrenic
Lying
Say
Inside
Dive
Either
Who
Actor
That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.
Captain Beefheart
Schizophrenic
Too
Kind
Obviously
Vicious
Mean
When you've been a character in a movie - and this has happened when we've done concerts as Spinal Tap or as The Folksmen - people see you as characters walking out of a movie. And you appear in public, then, to play, it's a very schizophrenic thing.
Christopher Guest
Character
You
People
Schizophrenic
Out
Characters
Spinal
Spinal Tap
See
Concerts
Been
Tap
Very
Walking
Done
Movie
Happened
Public
Then
Appear
Play
Thing
I always loved movies, especially watching some of my mom's films when I was younger, like 'Out of Darkness,' where she played a schizophrenic.
Evan Ross
Mom
Darkness
Schizophrenic
Films
Out
Some
Like
She
Always
Where
Loved
Movies
Younger
Played
Watching
I have a schizophrenic career. I have 'Cronos' and 'The Devil's Backbone' on one hand, and then I have 'Blade 2' and 'Mimic' on the other.
Guillermo del Toro
Schizophrenic
Devil
Mimic
Other
Backbone
One-On-One
Blade
Hand
Then
Career
You'd probably think I'm schizophrenic if you looked in my closet.
Jayma Mays
You
Schizophrenic
Think
Looked
Closet
Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.
Jeffrey Jones
Schizophrenic
Way
Brother
Seeing
Well
Understood
Different
Different Way
The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.
Jessica Savitch
Me
Woman
Schizophrenic
Difficult
Television
Idea
Like
Real
Being
Grasp
Stardom
Her
Sometimes, I want to make a record that's so schizophrenic and so all over the place, and then other times, I want to make a record that's very coherent and very short and together.
Jim James
Together
Sometimes
Schizophrenic
Other
Record
Over
Make
Very
Times
Short
Want
Place
Then
Coherent
In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.
Jonathan Carroll
You
Science
Women
Schizophrenic
Harvard
All Women
Entirely
Crowd
Poland
Between
Science Fiction
Audience
Different
Fiction
Conventions
Fantasy
I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.
Lauryn Hill
Schizophrenic
Emotionally
Unstable
Know
Anybody
'Empire' was a very traumatic experience for me. It was very schizophrenic, and it wasn't what I expected it to be.
Lee Daniels
Me
Experience
Schizophrenic
Empire
Very
Expected
Traumatic
I'm really schizophrenic about that, because on the one hand I would say, yes there is, there's something inherently, even violent about it, it's wild and raw and all this.
Lester Bangs
Schizophrenic
Wild
Say
Would
About
Something
Raw
Because
Hand
Yes
Really
Inherently
Even
Violent
As well as being blind, Ma turned out to have the same mental illness that her mother had had. Between 1986 and 1990, she suffered six schizophrenic bouts, each requiring her to be institutionalised for up to three months.
Liz Murray
Mother
Three
Schizophrenic
Ma
Months
Out
Mental
Mental Illness
Had
Between
Blind
She
Well
Up
Same
Six
Being
Turned
Requiring
Illness
Each
Suffered
Her
I'm a schizophrenic writer.
Lynn Nottage
Schizophrenic
Writer
I'd like to create a lovable character for schizophrenia; it doesn't have a celebrity spokesperson because by the time somebody's schizophrenic they've lost all their teeth.
Maria Bamford
Time
Character
Somebody
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenic
Lost
Teeth
Spokesperson
Like
Because
Celebrity
Lovable
Create
By The Time
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