Patty Duke Quotes

• My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Depression

• I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.

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  Topics in Age

  Tags in Wrong

• The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women’s rights activities is one I treasure.

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  Tags in Treasure, Activity

• You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity.

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  Tags in Manic, Creativity

• We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn’t, we’d go crazy.

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  Tags in Unbelievable, Crazy

• 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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  Tags in Surgery, Doctor, Might

• 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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  Tags in Restless, Sunset, Lonely

• Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called Life.

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  Tags in Reality

• I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness.

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  Tags in Victimized, Believe, Illness, Important

• Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

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  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Human Beings, Speculated, Insanity

• Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone’s words and breathe life into them.

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  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Interpret, Breathe

• 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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  Tags in Stunned, Around

• The panic attacks – I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death.

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  Tags in Panic, Around

• No matter what your laundry list of requirements in choosing a mate, there has to be an element of good luck and good fortune and good timing.

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  Topics in Luck

  Tags in Laundry, Fortune

• It’s toughest to forgive ourselves. So it’s probably best to start with other people. It’s almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Almost, Layer, Onion, Forgiving

• I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sentences, Self-Conscious, Quite

• I’m living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks.

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  Tags in Fantasy

• I can’t even remember how many times I tried to kill myself.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tried

• I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

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  Topics in Family

  Tags in High

• I’m going to be 58, and I’m a woman. In this business, that seems to be a bigger crime than being mentally ill.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mentally, Bigger

Patty Duke (35)

Birth:	14th December, 1946
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Patty Duke is an American actress of stage, film and television. First becoming famous as a child star, winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 16 and later starring in her eponymous sitcom, The Patty Duke Show, for three years, she progressed to more mature roles upon playing Neely O'Hara in the 1967 film Valley of the Dolls. She was later elected president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1985-1988, succeeding her Patty Duke Show co-star William Schallert.

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