Patty Duke Quotes
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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Buddhism talks about the possibility of transforming greed, hatred, and delusion. But sometimes need turns into greed.
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I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
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When you look at Google, its job is to find you the perfect web page. There are a lot of cases when you want to know something and a list of websites isn't ideal.
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If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.
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American literature has always been immigrant.
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Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?
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I have no personal experience in the military. All I know about it is what I've seen in movies and read in books and watched on television. My knowledge is probably no more or no less than the average person's. 'A Brief Encounter with the Enemy' was created by taking bits and pieces from here and there, and then putting my own spin on them.
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I don't think God cares what you put in your body or on your body.
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We don't work with anyone.
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As a street performer, I have learned that everybody wants to connect. And that usually, if you're a bit extraordinary, if you're not exactly of human appearance, then people will feel inclined to participate and to feel out loud. It's as though you made something resonate within them.
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My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.
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I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason.
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Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.
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Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
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Our culture is bloodthirsty for stories about women in pain; we hunger for women to expose their traumas and to be rescued by the love of a good man.
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Winners are losers who got up and gave it one more try.
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If every parent understood the huge educational benefits and intense happiness brought about by reading aloud to their children, and if every parent- and every adult caring for a child-read aloud a minimum of three stories a day to the children in our lives, we could probably wipe out illiteracy within one generation.
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I was a truly loving mom, but I didn't have the tools to do the job.
