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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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  Crazy, Ethos, Deny

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.6, Bantam

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• I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker

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  Miracle, Together, Reconstruction

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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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  Good Luck, Requirements, Matter

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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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  Night, Mental Illness, Periods

  Patty Duke, Kenneth Turan (1988). “Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke”, Bantam

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• I was just sort of moving through time.

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  Moving, Mental Illness, Rough Times

  Patty Duke, Kenneth Turan (1988). “Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke”, Bantam

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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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  Book, Thinking, Self

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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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  House, Childhood, Fatherhood

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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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  Panic Attacks, Panic, Stills

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• I can't even remember how many times I tried to kill myself

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  Remember, I Can

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.12, Bantam

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

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  Depression, Creativity, Bipolar

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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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  Kind, Imagine, Scene

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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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  Funny Things, Manic, Outrageous

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.133, Bantam

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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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  Imagination, Has Beens, Dies

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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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  Bipolar, Weight, Disease

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.152, Bantam

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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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  Friday, Monday, Morning

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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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  Lonely, Sunset, Ideas

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.8, Bantam

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

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  Mother, Kind, Savior

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.123, Bantam

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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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  Doctors, Talking, Risk

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