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 had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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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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There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.
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I am not smarter than anyone else.
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I have a theory that there's almost this primal viewpoint on women in the business, that once you're beyond childbearing age, you are perceived as nonthreatening, nonsexual, noncastable. Sure, I already knew it before I got into it. I just didn't know I'd end up making my living from low-budget, independent films.
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I had to give everything I had to one event if I wanted to excel.
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Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
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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.
