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“In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period, madness was shown, but on the other side of bars; if present, it was at a distance, under the eyes of a reason that no longer felt any relation to it and that would not compromise itself by too close a resemblance. Madness had become a thing to look at: no longer a monster inside oneself, but an animal with strange mechanisms, a bestiality from which man had long since been suppressed.”

Source: Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

“In a period of such obsessing political controversy as the present, I believe that I am that strange animal, the individual without any politics at all.”

Believe Political Individual I Believe Animal Strange Periods Controversy Obsessing

Book:The Enemy: A Review of Art and Literature

Source: The Enemy: A Review of Art and Literature

“The first period of getting famous was incredibly strange to me and really fun at the beginning because you didn't realise the consequences of anything. You could say or do whatever you wanted and it just didn't matter.”

Firsts Matter Wanted Fun Strange Periods Consequence Realising

Author:Robert Pattinson

“I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.”

Thinking Has Beens Past Enjoy Interesting Gone Strange Periods Creating Photograph Atmosphere Fascinating Slips Surreal Most Interesting Ambience

Author:Kate Atkinson

“It was an honor to work with Samantha Morton on this Casablanca-esque, silent-film-esque, Americana photobooth Woolworth's hay day period piece of surrealism/ realism/ story time tell-tale-ism, black and white 35 mm film, washed in strange light, over this love hate tune, heartbreak song, life-goes-on lullaby, The Last Goodbye. It's a doorway into the future of the fatal past-tense. Get it?”

“We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.”

Strange Periods Revolutionary Patriot

Book:A patriot after all, 1940-1941

Source: A patriot after all, 1940-1941

“I hate the word "method acting." It's just so silly. You hear people going, "Yeah I'm a method actor." I'm like, "So what happens if you're playing a period film or something? You're in the Second World War. And what happens when your mom calls you on your phone? Do you go, 'Oh! What is this strange talking brick device?'" No. It's stupid. But you do everything you can to get in that mindset.”

“I'm not a method actor, but I'm affected by the life I share my life with during shooting. It's always a very strange and special period for me.”

Actors Share Special Strange Periods Method Shooting Affected

Author:Marion Cotillard

“It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.”

Feels Kind Doe Today Technology Strange Periods Musician Scary Stuck Songwriters Music Business Old Technology Strange Times

Author:Dean Wareham

“Sometimes cats just avoid using a litter box but that [cat going poop outside the litter box but pees inside the litter box] is kind of strange. Most time people ask me why they go outside the litter box period.”

People Kind Sometimes Asks Strange Periods Cat Boxes Ask Me

Author:Temple Grandin

“I moved to New York when I was almost 21 and I've lived there for almost eight years, now I have a totally different relationship to L.A. There's like all this space and it's so beautiful seeing all these different landscapes and all my friends are here so now I really like it so much but my adjustment period was a little like "What a strange town".”

Years Littles Different Beautiful Space Seeing New York Strange Periods My Friends Towns Moved Eight Landscape Adjustment Different Relationships

Author:Emma Stone