Patty Duke Quotes
I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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Harpo Marx looks like a musical comedy.
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For a man, there's a big responsibility that comes with having a boy because men are made by their fathers. If you've got a good productive man around it's better. I have such a close relationship with my dad and that responsibility to produce a good man is something I think about.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of 'Family Ties' between Monday and Friday.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
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Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.
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My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments.
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For his was now the loveliest partOf the young poet's life, when first,In solitude and silence nurst,His genius rises like a springUnnoticed in its wandering;Ere winter cloud or summer rayHave chill'd, or wasted it away,
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If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'
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And every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back I hope you feel it.
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M*A*S*H' was a collection of people, in front of and behind the cameras, that really clicked.
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I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.
