The mania started with insomnia and not... by Patty Duke

actress Being Television screenwriter advocate

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.

- Patty Duke

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People

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

- Patty Duke

Time First

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.

- Patty Duke

Time

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?

- Patty Duke

Family Now Life

I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

- Patty Duke

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

- Patty Duke

Mother Being

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

- Patty Duke

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