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Alright, so I'm a manic depressive. What do you want from me? -- Claire Forlani
My dad is actually a manic depressive, which is very exciting half the time. -- Marc Maron
Recent studies have shown that approximately 40% of authors are manic depressive. The rest of us just drink. -- Melodie Campbell
Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair. -- Steven G. Krantz
I go from being hugely hopeful and entertaining to... really not. I'm not manic depressive, but I can really go to the darker side. -- Selma Blair
Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive. -- Brian Wilson
I had a husband who, I'm convinced, was an undiagnosed manic depressive. He didn't treat me as if I had a brain - I was just this beautiful little doll he could show off. -- Britt Ekland
I think almost all manic depressives exhibit some kind of criminal behaviour, even if it's something as minimal as shoplifting, but then they often go on to bigger and better things - in my case, it was fraud. -- Andy Behrman
Work ethic and this determination is all part of escaping the depressive side. Of course I'm manic depressive, maybe not to the degree that Exley was, but I think all writers are. There are highs and lows. Look at David Foster Wallace. -- T.C. Boyle
I think you have waves of awareness and one of the things that I found with grief was actually - I was well prepared for it by the cyclicality of my manic depressive illness because I was used to things coming and going and so forth. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
I'm manic-depressive, technically bi-polar II with many borderline features. -- Kate Braverman
Manic depressive people often have incredible energy and a slightly skewed, but nonetheless valid, way of looking at things. -- Kathryn Lasky
My character in 'Running With Scissors' is manic-depressive. She starts out as a wonderfully eccentric person, and then descends into a terrible illness. -- Annette Bening
At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle. -- Robert Hunter
I am a rapid-cycling manic-depressive, bi-polar one disorder, which means I can have thirty or forty episodes a year, and I used to have thirty to forty episodes a year. -- Andy Behrman
I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic episodes and really depressed episodes. -- Scott Weiland
I have more fun and more grand and glorious moments of my life than anyone I've never known. I know that some people call that manic-depress, and that other people call that being touched by God. I just call myself lucky. -- Richard Dreyfuss
I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures that those who have it will experience a frightening, chaotic and emotional ride. It is not a gentle or easy disease. -- Kay Redfield Jamison
The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?' -- Ariel Gore
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.' -- Kitty Kelley
The point about manic depression or bipolar disorder, as it's now more commonly called, is that it's about mood swings. So, you have an elevated mood. When people think of manic depression, they only hear the word depression. They think one's a depressive. The point is, one's a manic-depressive. -- Stephen Fry
I think if you're in this business, like any high-stakes business, the highs and lows can make you a manic-depressive person, if you weren't that way to start with. 'Cause it's just so crazy on your psyche. A lot of it has to do with people thinking they're greater than someone else. -- Joan Cusack
Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New York to Paris and taking the train to Berlin; flying to Argentina in the middle of the night; spending tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary garments, dinners and gifts. -- Andy Behrman
Money is a huge issue for manic depressives. Sometimes the problem is not nearly on the same scale as it has been for me, but nonetheless, it's difficult to deal with. Many get themselves into debt that can take years to clear up, write bad cheques, shoplift and borrow huge amounts from family and friends. -- Andy Behrman
I spoke so much about being a manic-depressive. I want to bring everyone back to my earliest memories of this companion of mine. Some people call this companion I have an ailment, or worse a terrible nightmare from which some people cannot awaken. I know that I have nothing to be ashamed of. I have nothing that should garner a stigma. -- Richard Dreyfuss
Remember that the stock market is manic-depressive. -- Warren Buffett
Homicide central, East New York, Where the manic-depressive psycho murderers stalk -- Jeru the Damaja
I am not schizoid. A little manic-depressive, maybe." "'Know thyself.'" "We try, sir. -- Lois McMaster Bujold
All writers are egomaniacal, manic-depressive, drug-addicted alcoholics. You want to have that fix again. -- T.C. Boyle
Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right. -- Robert Breault
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance. -- Igor Stravinsky
Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am no exception. -- T.C. Boyle
If you're manic-depressive and you're functioning in this world and doing it all well, I think, wow, you should be proud of being able to say, this is what I'm getting through right now. -- Carrie Fisher

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