Patty Duke Quotes

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

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• I believe that you can always learn from observation.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Believe
  • Learn
  • Observation

• In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • People
  • Live
  • Death

• I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Own
  • Price
  • My Own

• I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Play
  • Professional
  • First

• I think where it's going is toward what the music industry is like, where channels will be considered more like labels that carry the type of TV show that you like, and then you'll consume them however you can. For example, I don't really watch Showtime, but I bought 'Homeland,' and I've been watching every episode on my iPad.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Music
  • Think
  • Example

• Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • World
  • Rock
  • Judge

• I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Teaching
  • Entrepreneur
  • Entrepreneurship

• Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!

  

  Jack Germond
  • Heart
  • True
  • Newspaper

• Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Better
  • Class
  • Environmental

• Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Good
  • Live
  • Job

• I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Up
  • Time
  • Internet

• My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Guitar
  • Trees
  • Grandfather

• I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Silent

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Horror
  • Making
  • Sounds

• I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Want
  • House

• When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny on what my character was, what my background was, what colour my hair was. I fought quite hard for the music to overtake the personality aspect.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Music
  • Character
  • Hair

• Many people decide to jump from niche to niche, as they cannot find success immediately with the niche that they have chosen for their online business.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Business
  • Success

• No, I got my web site going and said I have the record out. People were just falling on the floor - they couldn't believe it - after all that time. You know, it wasn't a compilation, it was new songs.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• In baseball, you're always moving people around.

  

  Joe Torre
  • People
  • Moving
  • Baseball

• I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.

  

  Dave Barry
  • Purpose

• I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Up
  • Good
  • Why

• We need to reaffirm that politics is not merely compatible with economic progress and development in the 21st century, but essential to it.

  

  David Blunkett
  • Progress

• I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

  

  Patty Duke
  • People