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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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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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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My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married... disaster.
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God has been my number one inspiration. I also look up to Will Smith and Jamie Fox who are also personal friends of mine. They give me great career advice. I would also include Chris Stokes, as a filmmaker and music producer. I've been working with him since I was eight.
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We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration.
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Nixon was the one force in Montgomery for a number of years that made any effort in the direction of challenging the power structure. Ed Nixon's source of direction for that comes out of his relationship with the Brotherhood of Sleeping Care Porters and the Randolph philosophy of mass action. So, Ed Nixon really was the force that conceived of the boycott and drew up the original papers for the boycott.
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Remember, presidents and bishops, that the callings of your associates are just as divinely inspired as is yours, and they are therefore entitled to inspiration in their specific responsibilities. Lean upon them. Learn from them. Love them. Listen to them.
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Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
