Patty Duke Quotes
Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
Quotes to Explore
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may be a villain, but reality is frustrating because it's often ambiguous.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.
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I do think that people have moments of realisation in real life - even if it's on their death beds - when they suddenly think, 'Jesus - what did I do?'
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Being a father is just wonderful.
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I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.
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I didn't get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives.
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Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
