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I was just sort of moving through time.

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Patty Duke
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: December 14
Died: 2016
Died: March 29
Actress
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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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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'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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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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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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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 know that without treatment I would not have never been able to harness my creativity in such a successful way.
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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 knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me
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I'm not sure I want all my neuroses cleared up
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Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.
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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 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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We call my son's role in the Lord of the Rings trilogy Sean's little independent movie.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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