Patty Duke Quotes
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I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.
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I worshipped my father.
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I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning.
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If I have any message for others, it is to go for help early and not to be a resistant patient.
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The doctors must tell you that one of the risks of surgery is that you might die. This poor doctor was talking to an actress. It was very dramatic to me. To him, it was just a thing he had to say.
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When we want to say something negative to somebody we say, 'Aww, you're so crazy.'
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For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.
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I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.
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I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.
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If stars behave in an erratic fashion, it's called 'colorful,' as opposed to, 'Well, maybe there's a problem there.'
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When I'm 80 and sitting in a rocking chair listening to the Rolling Stones, there is absolutely no way I'm going to feel old or forget my younger days.
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My life was ripped off!
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I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness.
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Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called Life.
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I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up.
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I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker.
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I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother.
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We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.
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As much as I loathe this aging thing, I'm beginning to recognize that I am now a healthier person in terms of self-worth and knowing who I am and where I fit in the world. That's been a good trade-off for the wrinkles.
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I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.
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I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.
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I have a picture of myself in my mind as I walk around every day, until I look in the mirror-and then I'm stunned.
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Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
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One of the reasons I survived as well as I did was my genetics. My mother and father both had very tough lives, and boy, were they survivors.