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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The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men's minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy.
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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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Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
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A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.
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In 2013, I started playing Fara Sherazi on 'Homeland.' I love playing her, not just because she's a strong woman, but because for the first time, a Muslim woman is being portrayed on television as a regular person, rather than a cliche or collection of stereotypes.
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We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.
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Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
