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A lot of what's wrong with me is, I feel like, a bank error in my favor. It can be fantastic. Whenever I read about it in other books, it's very, very heavy and awful. I was trying to get to the positive side.
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As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't.
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Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.
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Drugs made me feel more normal.
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Has Tom Cruise ever been in psychiatry? It's been helpful to me in my life.
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He put me on lithium. I liked that for a while, but soon I missed my little pal, my up mood.
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I always like to start off with a strong opener. I didn't have that line until I'd written a lot of the book because I sort of started writing it from the mental hospital out.
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I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.
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I didn't accept it fully until I had the psychotic break four years ago, in 1997.
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I didn't fully accept the bipolar diagnosis.
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I didn't like the diagnosis. I couldn't believe the psychiatrist told me that. I just thought it was because he was lazy and didn't want to treat me.
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I do a lot of research on the internet. It's easier for me.
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I do a lot of scripts that don't get made that I'm very proud of.
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I don't do that much script doctoring anymore.
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I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.
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I don't think that anybody's invincible, but I can certainly outlast things.
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I don't want peace, I just don't want war.
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I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.
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I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.
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I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.
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I think of my body as a side effect of my mind, like a thought I had once that manifested itself - Oops! Oh no! Manifested. Look at this. Now we have to buy clothes and everything.
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I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.
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I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.
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I try to encourage people to envy my mania. A lot of it is just fantastic.
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I was lying to doctors and looking through people's drawers for drugs.
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I was on drugs, too, at the time, and I don't think you can accurately diagnose bipolar disorder when someone is actively drug addicted or alcoholic.
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I was still wrangling with my moods, and I was living in a house, which is a lot of responsibility. I had a child, and for her sake I was trying to act as if I hadn't been hurt by her father, who had left me for a man. I was hiding, and I am not used to doing that.
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I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.
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I was worried about how everyone would react to me.
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I wasn't connecting at all, but I kept talking and talking and talking. At a certain point, I lost my mind. The birthing was over, and I got to the other side of the looking glass. When I went back to the hospital, I was hallucinating.
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I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.
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I'm as active as I can be in helping to educate people on manic depression, so I have a few speaking engagements coming up as well.
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I'm fine, but I'm bipolar. I'm on seven medications, and I take medication three times a day. This constantly puts me in touch with the illness I have. I'm never quite allowed to be free of that for a day. It's like being a diabetic.
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I'm never restricted about what I can write about myself.
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I'm writing something for HBO and something for Irwin Winkler.
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I've read these great memoirs where they remember things from when they were three and four. I don't remember anything from then!
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If you write memoirs there are a lot more restrictions for you.
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Impulses become edicts from the Vatican.
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Instant gratification takes too long.
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Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.
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Leia follows me like a vague smell.
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Mental illness sounds so horrendous and it can be. But it's kind of a broad term.
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Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.
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People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.
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People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.
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People that are depressed have mental illness.
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Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
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Roy decorated my house and Pam has to live in it.
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Shampoo - it was fine, though I didn't really have anything else to compare it to at the time, being my first film.
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So maybe I was taking drugs to keep the monster in the box.
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The manic end of is a lot of fun.
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Then I overdosed at 28, at which point I began to accept the bipolar diagnosis.
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There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."
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Well, I have a novel coming out in the spring, titled, The Best Awful There Is.
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What I was trying to do was make my brand of mental illness sort of accessible and if at all possible amusing.
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You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
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