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Patty Duke

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

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

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"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

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"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

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"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."

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"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show."

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"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too."

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"Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'."

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"Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders."

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"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."

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"Old age is by nature rather talkative."

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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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"We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy."
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"Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries."
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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'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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"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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"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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"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."
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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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