Patty Duke Quotes
The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
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I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
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People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
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When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those. Every once in a while, I'll look at video starts that I struggled, and sometimes in those, there is no mechanical problems; it's just, didn't have good stuff that day.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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Music is liquid. It's meant to be messed with and played with and stretched and pulled and pushed, I think.
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I love a ghost story. I think they affect me more than other people that are much more skeptical than I am. I think that it's good that I do buy into them to some degree.
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I was a vegetarian first. I had high blood pressure at 27, everybody in my family died of cancer, and I knew it was in the food, so I changed my diet.
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I've always just had troubles with my family because I'm psychotic. It had nothing to do with that.
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The mania started with insomnia and not eating and being driven, driven to find an apartment, driven to see everybody, driven to do New York, driven to never shut up.
