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  • When you're a first time director, you're often considered what's called a "deadly attachment" in the eyes of financiers, because they're trusting you with a lot of money to bring something home, to get great performances, to not have a nervous breakdown in the process.

    Eye   Home   Attachment  
    Source: collider.com
  • I had low blood sugar, a chemical imbalance, plus the normal nervous breakdown everyone goes through from adolescence to adulthood.

    Blood   Sugar   Imbalance  
  • I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.

  • 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 (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey
  • Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.

    Two   Tea   Tin  
    Caitlin Moran (2016). “Moranifesto”, p.343, Random House
  • 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.

  • 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 (1977). “Down the Seine and up the Potomac with Art Buchwald”, Fawcett Books
  • I'm f**king pathetic when it comes to being an entertainer. People come because they want to see me have a nervous breakdown.

    Kings   People   Want  
  • I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

    Gay   Nervous   Sexuality  
  • I've never stolen anything. Well, that's not entirely true. I once accidentally took a gift card from a store in a mall. I was carrying it around to show my mom because I thought it was funny, and I forgot to show it to her and left the store carrying it. I had a complete nervous breakdown, like, 20 minutes later and went back to the store in tears. So that's where I stand in terms of my ability to steal something.

    Mom   Tears   Cards  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • There are so many rules about play writing. I'd have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.

    Writing   Play   Nervous  
  • The girls in California were probably prettier in a standard sense than the New York girls--blonder and in better health, I guess; but I still preferred the way the girls in New York looked--stranger and more neurotic (a girl always looked more beautiful and fragile when she was about to have a nervous breakdown).

    Andy Warhol (1990). “POPism: The Warhol '60s”, Harvest Books
  • 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 (2011). “Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You”, p.88, Hachette UK
  • 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.

    Couple   Tired   Thinking  
    "I'm not some weirdo recluse". Interview with Tom Doyle, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2005.
  • 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.

    School   Paris   Sick  
  • Nervous breakdowns can be highly underrated methods of spiritual transformation.

    Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”
  • 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.

    Eight   Two   People  
  • Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.

    Country   Heart   Tanks  
    Roald Dahl (2009). “Boy: Tales of Childhood”, p.166, Penguin
  • When I was thirteen, I had a nervous breakdown, and I was put into this grown-up mental hospital with all these 50-, 60-year-old men and women. This big, Victorian mental house. There were like five boys in there, all my age, looked after by this woman who was 22 or 23. And it was like "Empire of the Sun" meets "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"-type of arrangement where you've got this young boy overcoming and becoming heroic in the face of this awful place.

    Boys   Men   Years  
    Source: www.indiewire.com
  • One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

    Success   Work   Stress  
    Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5
  • 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 (1988). “Emerald Ice: Selected Poems, 1962-1987”, p.162, David R. Godine Publisher
  • There is an argument for believing that the entire process of writing a piece of fiction is simply a thinly-controlled and highly-internalised nervous breakdown designed, with a bit of luck, to produce something worthwhile at the end.

    Believe   Writing   Luck  
    David Hewson (2012). “Writing: A User Manual: A practical guide to planning, starting and finishing a novel”, p.227, A&C Black
  • If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

    World   Rats   Awful  
    John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.6, A&C Black
  • One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery: the shortest, cheapest method of inducing a nervous breakdown ever perfected. In this technique..., the subject is placed in a sharply sloping attic heated to 340 F and given a mothproof closet known as the Jiffy-Cloz to assemble.

  • Once asked what action he would recommend if a person were to feel a nervous breakdown coming on: Lock up your house, go across the railroad tracks, and find someone in need and do something for him.

    Life   Track   House  
  • 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.

  • I believe what I call common sense gun reform. Plus, a revolution in mental health, making sure that if people are having a nervous breakdown, or are suicidal, or homicidal, they get the care they need when they need it. I think the vast majority of the American people can support and agenda composed of those features.

    Source: www.nbcnews.com
  • I don't think there's any kind of preparation for sudden celebrity. I think you almost have this slight nervous breakdown when that kind of media attention happens. I mean, you're doing the same kind of thing that you do all the time, only you have to make these weird adjustments. Like, you're buying a slice of pizza and somebody's outside photographing you which is weird - that's not normal! It's very uncomfortable.

    Mean   Thinking   Media  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.

  • I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

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