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You start acting in spite of your neuroses, not because of them. — Frank Langella
I don't really have an aversion to watching myself. I think I've been doing it for long enough that I have a system of separating… — Mae Whitman
I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the curriculum in Trend… — Dave Barry
Actually, in my own life I think I probably feign neuroses to be more interesting than I am. — Lake Bell
I think there's something very lovely and hilarious about exploring the particular neuroses of the female mind. It's just not the same thing with men.… — Lizzy Caplan
In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that… — Ethan Hawke
The more neurosis the more wisdom. — Pema Chodron
This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds… — Louis Kronenberger
Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs… — Peter Dobereiner
As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Perhaps someday everyone will have neurosis. — Vincent Van Gogh
If I'm a cruel satirist at least I'm not a hyprocrite: I never judge what other people do. Neither a politician nor a priest, I… — Federico Fellini
The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or… — Abraham Maslow
Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude… — Chogyam Trungpa
Everything but happiness is neurosis. — Anais Nin
I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving… — Rita Mae Brown
Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task… — Anatole France
A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. — Sigmund Freud
Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity. — Sigmund Freud
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend… — Sigmund Freud
We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating… — Sigmund Freud
To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. — James Dean
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you'd do something else. — Lawrence Durrell
You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were… — Fred Durst
National isolation breeds national neurosis. — Hubert H. Humphrey

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