"Imagine Oshkosh straitjackets for little insane children."
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"The things I talk about and explain couldn't happen - yet, they don't seem impossible - you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane - and it's trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is."
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"It sounds insane, I know, but I think that - I'm so lucky because I basically am my own muse."
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"A vegetarian? Are you insane? That's worse than bein' a quarter demon!"
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"All mothers are slightly insane."
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"Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?"
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"Are — you — insane?” said Hermione in a hushed voice. 'I don't think so,' said Harry, shrugging."
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"As I was getting into the helicopter, a slightly nervous actor said to me, "Whatever you do, don't say to the helicopter pilot, 'Show me what this baby can do.'" So I of course, got into it and said, "Show me what this baby can do." And we just had this insane helicopter ride. It's the sort of thing you only get to do on movie sets. I'm so lucky to have done it and have that chance."
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"Rebel Heart changed everything. First of all, it drove me insane - and made me feel an overwhelming sense of anxiety. It made me second guess everything, because suddenly I thought, 'Oh god, everyone's heard all these demos.'"
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"It's insane how quickly everything's changed. I always feel like I'm running hard to catch up."
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"beautiful insane in the rain"
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"Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane too."
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"This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets."
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"Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance."
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"The popular image that Hollywood is ruined by difficult prima donna actors is nonsense. They're certainly very nice to directors. I can't say the same about producers, who I found difficult, paranoid, and certifiably insane, mostly."
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"What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane."
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"Insane!... Ask the tyrant who is his most dangerous foe, the sane man or the insane?"
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"I don't Tweet a lot because I've Tweeted things that I thought were really innocuous about subjects that are inflammatory, and the response is so insane sometimes from people."
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"I really like older writers, perhaps because they take me out of my element. I don't have a great deal of interest in reading a fictionalized present as it's pretty insane as it is."
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"But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers."
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