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A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. -- Earl Wilson
I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown. -- Jane Fonda
I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown. -- Andy Gibb
With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge. -- Paul Feig
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell
I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay. -- Lionel Blue
Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset. -- Roald Dahl
The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor. -- Lauren Hutton
A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it. -- Art Buchwald
I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch. -- Emma Thompson
Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck. -- Pat Williams
There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them. -- Terrence McNally
I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous. -- Peter McWilliams
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. -- Lawrence Durrell
If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat. -- John Green
If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do. -- Joyce Meyer
I'm a neurotic Jew who doesn't want loans. I can't even carry a balance on my credit card without having a nervous breakdown. -- Duff Goldman
When you coach Russ Smith, you have a nervous breakdown on every possession. He's not from a different country. He's from a different planet. -- Rick Pitino
A nervous breakdown waits around the corner for anyone who lets himself wallow in bitterness. Little by little, it takes over your whole being. -- Mariama Bâ
Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you're right in the middle of one. -- Marian Keyes
There are rituals not structures for being a poet, drinking too much, taking too many drugs, being a lady chaser, having your nervous breakdown, being irresponsible about money. -- Diane Wakoski
I found out that I couldn't have a nervous breakdown. I tried a couple of times, but it just didn't work out. My mind, my body wouldn't let me. -- Tom Smothers
If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know. -- Frank Bruno
Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house. -- Cynthia Weil
I had a nervous breakdown at 17 when my first love left me, and he was a typical bad boy, albeit a charismatic one, with a string of broken hearts trailing behind him. -- Caroline Leavitt
Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to a liter and a half of wine. -- Judith Thurman
Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac. -- Keith Ablow
A quick glance at the American left reveals a movement in the midst of a nervous breakdown, displaying behavior that goes beyond inconsistency into the realm of bipolar moods and multiple personality disorders. -- Michael Medved
The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown. -- Jacques Derrida
I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that. -- Natasha Hamilton
I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time. -- Kate Bush
I'm a very strong person, and I think that's why, actually, I find it really infuriating when I read, 'She had a nervous breakdown' or 'She's not very mentally stable, just a weak, frail little creature.' -- Kate Bush
If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown. -- Isaac Asimov
The first thing you should know about me is when I was three years old my mother left me and my father. And that was traumatic obviously for my father - he suffered a nervous breakdown at that time in his life. -- Robert Carlyle
I don't get into these petty things, Kentucky-Louisville. To me, it's nonsense... There will be people at Kentucky that will have a nervous breakdown if they lose to us... They've got to put the fences up on bridges. There will be people consumed by Louisville. -- Rick Pitino
Everybody faces obstacles. And I looked to people who had been through many to succeed in life. Abraham Lincoln, born to a poor family, faced defeat through most of his life. Lost eight elections, failed two businesses, had a nervous breakdown, and still became president. -- Dave Winfield
My mother was very ill when I was 18. She had a brain operation and then a nervous breakdown. It's very strange when you see your parents, who have always been your pillars of strength, suddenly become vulnerable. You don't know whether to be angry that they are not strong or devastated. -- Emilia Fox
I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences dont like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma. -- Leslie Moonves
My mother Molly had a nervous breakdown after my father Chic died, aged 50. He was a very generous man who ran a shop in Dundee giving a lot of people tick. When he died, a lot of people hadn't paid their bills, so he died with a lot of debt. After he died, my mother went doolally. -- Brian Cox
I was born with a nervous breakdown. -- Yves Saint Laurent
Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown. -- Glen Hansard
Not many people sleep with other men and when the other man leaves have a nervous breakdown. -- Andrew Sullivan
The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown. -- John Holmes
I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood. -- Mel Brooks
When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the living room. -- Spalding Gray
I'm f**king pathetic when it comes to being an entertainer. People come because they want to see me have a nervous breakdown. -- Mark Linkous
A nervous breakdown waits around the corner for anyone who lets himself wallow in bitterness. Little by little, it takes over your whole being. -- Mariama Bâ
How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown? I ask.Keep going, Christian says. Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that. -- Suzanne Finnamore
How do you know? How best to ensure his nervous breakdown?" I ask."Keep going," Christian says. "Just go on as if nothing has happened. We all hate that. -- Suzanne Finnamore
As a nation the people of this lovely island called Britain, are at the point where even one honest politician could give us a collective and conceptual nervous breakdown. -- Steve Merrick
I think I realize why celebrities go crazy, do something stupid or have a nervous breakdown. Fortunately I have great people around me, but I see how that can happen. -- Carrie Underwood
I was just absolutely exhausted. The media said I've been treated for a nervous breakdown. All that stuff I just took as people taking the opportunity when you're down to give you a kick. -- John Hewson

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