“Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to discover, achieve and create. Monomania can develop into 'genius,' as the individual delves deeper into the process leaving normal parameters behind.” IndividualProcessBehindsAchieveGeniusNormalCreatingMadnessLeavingDeeperDevotionSparksSmarterGiftedObsessiveInsatiableParameters Author:Paul Russo
“My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.” ImportantCharacterAbleLife IsBehindsNormalPersonal LifeNormal Life Author:Kelly Reilly
“The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything youve ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.” GivingLooksEarthStarsWhiteBehindsExistenceKnownMoonNormalPerceptionWindowBallsBlueEdgesFlightGalaxyThumbsThumbs UpBlue And White Author:Jim Lovell
“I have hour spurts when I feel fine and I can walk normal and stuff, other hours, I'm wobbling. I feel like there's somebody behind me kicking my legs out from underneath me. The whole tumor symptom thing is crazy. It's unpredictable. It really messes with your life.” LifeFeelsI CanWholeStuffHoursWalksBehindsCrazyFineNormalLegsMessUnpredictableSymptomsKickingTumors Author:Lauryn Hill
“Every time I'm home from tour I try to write some new songs, but it can get really hard trying to keep up with normal life, I always get so behind.” WritingTryingHardHomeSongBehindsNormalGet RealNormal LifeNew Songs Author:Tim Lambesis
“I try as best as I can to have a normal life. People recognise you, of course, and that's very strange. But I sort of leave my working life behind when I go home. That's my other world.” PeopleWorldTryingI CanHomeCoursesBehindsStrangeNormalRecogniseOther WorldsNormal LifeWorking LifeRecognise You Author:Saoirse Ronan
“Hitler always styled himself as a man who renounced all personal happiness in the service of his people. There is no conclusive evidence of this, but I believe that behind the smokescreen of discretion, Hitler had a very normal love life with Eva Braun.” PeopleMenBelieveI BelieveBehindsNormalEvidenceLove LifeDiscretionPersonal Happiness Author:Volker Ullrich
“For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people.” PeopleWritingHas BeensMomentsBehindsSceneNormalFindingsExtraordinaryWriting LifeBehind The ScenesExtraordinary Moments Author:Mark Boal
“UNIX has a philosophy, it has 25 years of history behind it, and most importantly, it has a clean core. It strives for something - some kind of beauty. And that's really what struck me as a programmer. Operating systems that normal home users are used to, such as DOS and Windows, didn't have any way of life. Nobody tried to design Windows - it just grew in random directions without any kind of thought behind it. [...] I don't think Microsoft is evil in itself; I just think that they make really crappy operating systems.” ThinkingWayYearsKindPhilosophyHomeUsedEvilBehindsDesignGrewNormalWindowCleanStriveCoreUsersStrifeMicrosoftProgrammersOperating SystemsUnix Author:Linus Torvalds
“For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't like to accept the version of reality that society and culture hand them. They want to know what's really going on. So you're always looking in the ceilings, under the floorboards and behind the walls, trying to find the mechanisms, the structures, and the truth. I find that often leads you into some dark places.” KnowsWantTryingHandsRealityArtistCultureSidesDarkBehindsAcceptingWallNormalStructureVersionsArtisticMechanismNot AloneCeilingsDark SideEndeavourDark PlacesSociety And Culture Author:David Cronenberg
“Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.” KindWaitingBehindsTalkingStageNormalPerformancesConcentratingSuperstarJackiePlaying AroundGreat Performance Author:Jackie Evancho
“I understand what a normal political speech is. You get up there, tell a few jokes, you have the flags behind you, and you speak for 10 or 15 minutes in broad generalities.” PoliticalSpeakBehindsMinutesSpeechNormalJokesGet UpBroadsFlagsBehind YouGeneralitiesPolitical Speeches Author:Bernie Sanders
“It was Herzog, the man himself. He was so welcoming and kind and not at all the persona you'd seen in a magazine, or in "Burden of Dreams" for that matter. I'd shot the behind-the-scenes for "Bad Lieutenant." It was a very normal production. Nothing like "Burden of Dreams."” MenKindMatterDreamBehindsHe ManSceneNormalShotsProductionsBurdenWelcomeMagazinesPersonaBehind The ScenesLieutenants Author:Sam Pressman
“In cinema people are always walking into something and saying this is who I am, what I want, and how I'm going to get it and we don't in life - particularly not in public situations. People might know your first name, not your last name, they don't know what you do, and you're not going to offer it up. So if you start there and you realize this is a much more normal presentation in a film then you would ordinarily have; you know that there is a big life behind what everyone presents and that I think is super interesting.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantFirstsBigsMightLastsFilmNamesRealizingInterestingBehindsSituationWalkingOffersNormalWho I AmCinemaPresentation Author:Julianne Moore
“After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving behind the secretive sounds, the shy sounds, the whispers and conversations of moss disputing with grass over some soft piece of earth, or the hummingbird snoring.” EarthSoundBehindsGonePiecesAirMoonConversationNormalLeavingWideNoiseGrassShyMossSecretiveDrowsyHummingbirdsSnoring Book:Leepike Ridge Source: Leepike Ridge
“Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a strong dose of madness, no initiative, no enterprise, no gesture. Reason: the rust of our vitality. It is the madman in us who forces us to adventure; once he abandons us, we are lost; everything depends on him, even our vegetative life; it is he who invites us, who obliges us to breathe, and it is also he who forces our blood to venture through our veins. Once he withdraws, we are alone indeed! We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.” ReasonLostStrongForceBehindsAliveBloodEventsAdventureDependsNormalMadnessOneselfBreatheReasonableEnterpriseAbandonInvitesGesturesDragInitiativeVentureVeinsVitalityMadmenDoseRustLost Everything Author:Emile M. Cioran
“Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.” PeopleIfsWayWantHardBehindsBrainQuietDepressionNormalMouthsLipsIceSmoothComplaintsCrushedChunksKilling YourselfConjunctionsAbove And BeyondPhysical Things Author:Ned Vizzini