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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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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 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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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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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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My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.
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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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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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The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
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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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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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We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.
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Sometimes it is the simplest, seemingly most inane, most practical stuff that matters the most to someone.
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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 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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Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.
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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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I can't tell you what I had for breakfast, but I can sing every single word of rock and roll.
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You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity.
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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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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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I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker.
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