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I worshipped my father.

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Father, Worshipped

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

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Crazy, Go, Deny, Unbelievable

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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Doing, Bed, I Think, Monday Morning

As much as I loathe this aging thing, I'm beginning to recognize that I am now a healthier person in terms of self-worth and knowing who I am and where I fit in the world. That's been a good trade-off for the wrinkles.

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Beginning, Been, Healthier, Wrinkles

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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Forgiveness, Other, Almost, Layer

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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Die, Actress, Very, Surgery

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

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Mother, Kind, Like, Savior

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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Rock And Roll, Tell, Roll, Single Word

I'm surviving a life-threatening illness. Many do not, such as those without celebrity and fortune who have to depend on the public healthcare system.

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Celebrity, Depend, Fortune, Life-Threatening

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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Over, Which, Became, Highs

My life was ripped off!

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Life, My Life, Off, Ripped

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

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Tell, Very, Unattractive, Self-Pity

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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Words, Line, Them, Interpret

At the age of 19, I removed myself from society for almost four months, setting off years of manic episodes, including outrageous overspending. I bought several Mercedes because I thought I could. I had no money, but I rented a jet.

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Thought, Almost, Several, Episodes

You can have manic-depression without having an ounce of creativity.

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Creativity, You, Having, Ounce

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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Nature, Part, About, Colorful

If stars behave in an erratic fashion, it's called 'colorful,' as opposed to, 'Well, maybe there's a problem there.'

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Maybe, Erratic, Opposed, Colorful

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future.

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Start, Date, Going, December

I was a very isolated teenager.

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Very, Isolated, Teenager

Bipolar indicates that you're not - you don't just experience depression, but the mood swing goes up, and it can go very up.

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Mood, Goes, Very, Bipolar

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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Listening, Younger, Going, Sitting

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, Mate

I believe that all the important people in my life prior to 1982 were victimized by my illness.

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My Life, Important People, Illness

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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Death, Always, Still, Panic

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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Life, Family, Husband, Glamour

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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Restless, Idea, Got, Sunset

One of the reasons I survived as well as I did was my genetics. My mother and father both had very tough lives, and boy, were they survivors.

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Mother And Father, Very, Survived

I've survived. I've beaten my own bad system, and on some days, on most days, that feels like a miracle.

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Bad, Some, Feels, Survived

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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Help, Patient, Go, Resistant

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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Think, Some, Self-Conscious, Published

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