Patty Duke Quotes

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

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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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I went through a very lethargic period... I was just sort of getting through every night and every day.

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From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.

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The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure

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

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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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It's not a giant thrill to hear someone give you the label manic-depressive, but to me I was so relieved. What I was suffering from had a name and could be treated.

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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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One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school. They want to deal with what's happening now.

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I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother

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

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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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Women who put on a few pounds after starting lithium sometimes say the cure is worse than the disease. The weight gain shoots them straight into depression.

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

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

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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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I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.

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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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