Patty Duke Quotes
I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning.
Quotes to Explore
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I am not a 'defender' of the September 11 attacks, but simply pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I find the business world hard.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.
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I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found what I wanted to do. I did swimming, gymnastics, kickboxing and the one that took off more than the others was acting.
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I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?
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Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
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Honeymoons are great, but they don't last. And I think the same is true with success on the screen - today, I am all over the place; tomorrow, I may be gone - I may have to make room for someone else. So why make a big song and dance about it all?
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My parents gave me a boxer puppy as a present. I have wanted a dog for years and must first give her attention in the morning.
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We spend most of our lives in relationships or bringing up children which are a product of relationships.
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Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
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If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
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I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning.
