Patty Duke Quotes

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

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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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• When I don’t know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don’t usually come up with a similar kind of thing.

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

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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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• Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.

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

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

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I’m not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

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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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