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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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"I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for."

"My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round."

"It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television."

"This is a year and a few months after the transplant. Before I had it my doctors told me that it would be the biggest thing that I ever had to face and believe me, when they take your liver out of ya and put another one in it's like replacing a football in your stomach."

"I'm a terrible patient, and I find that doctors can be very condescending."

"The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don't test the other two because they are so rare; mine was the third kind of estrogen."
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"I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination."

"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."

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