Patty Duke Quotes
The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say.
Quotes to Explore
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It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
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In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
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The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.
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I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.
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Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.
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I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
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The minute your parents die, you stop fighting them. I realized the more I changed my face for films, the more I looked like him. I always liked to disguise myself because I was trying to run away from his image. But all that is not worth it.
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I suppose, if helping a patient die is killing, I suppose I'm a killer.
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When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.
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I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.
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Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.
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When you see a tomcat with his whiskers full of feathers, do not say 'Canary!' - he'll take offense.
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One important reason to stay calm is that calm parents hear more. Low-key, accepting parents are the ones whose children keep talking.
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I even sang once at the opening of a supermarket. You name it, I've done it.
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The 'Love Undercover' series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes.
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I always try to read at night, because it gets me kind of tired.
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The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say.
