Patty Duke Quotes
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We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
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I just love to see people having a good time.
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'It is a mistake,' he said, 'to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort. We know that well enough from our experience in the environmental crisis of the twentieth century.'
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Scents evoke very, very powerful memories, whether it's the scent of someone that you know and someone that you love, or if it's a meal that your mother made.
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I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.
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You know, guys, it is possible for two women to work together and get along.
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I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker.
