My recovery from manic depression has be... by Patty Duke | We Heart Quotes

actress Television screenwriter Depression advocate

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

- Patty Duke

Other quotes by Patty Duke

Music

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.

- 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

Ability

We have developed this unbelievable ability to deny. We have to. If we didn't, we'd go crazy.

- Patty Duke

Fortune

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.

- Patty Duke

Day Mind

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.

- Patty Duke

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

- Patty Duke

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