"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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Source : Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.13, Bantam

Patty Duke

#New York Quotes #Insomnia Quotes #Shut Up Quotes

“Seriously. I'm not very bright, and it takes a lot for me to get a concept - to really get a concept. To get it enough that it becomes part of me. But when it happens I get real excited about it”
“I had always been an overachiever, so I felt I could just "wing it," reasoning that if I don't set clear, written goals I wouldn't have to account for anything if I failed. Now I'm the opposite! I am always setting goals, and I get very specific about where I'm going and take the time to learn the steps needed to take to get there.”
“Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.”
“Now women are funny animals. You never know when you are with them - they donâ€™t often know where they are with themselves . Itâ€™s no good trying to find out what makes them tick. It just canâ€™t be done. They have more moods than an army of cats with lives, and all you can hope is to spot the mood youâ€™re after when it turns up and step in quick. Hesitate youâ€™re a dead duck, unless youâ€™re one of those guys who like slow approach that might get you somewhere in a week or in a month or even a year.”
“It's very hard to get out of this hold, that's why you either have to scoot backwards, move forwards, or try to get up.”
“Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.”

Source : Karel Capek (2004). “R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)”, p.89, Penguin
“You could raise the price of, say, a bottle of ketchup to $1.03 instead of $1, and no one would know. Raising prices just 3% per product would add 50% to your pretax income. Why not do it? It's like heroin: You do a little and you want a little bit more. Raising prices is the easy way.”
“Having people be afraid of you comes with responsibility.”

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