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Patti Davis is an American actress born on October 21, 1952. She is known for her work in the film and television industry, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s. She has starred or had significant roles in various films and television shows, including 'The Man Who Would Be King' and 'The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas'. Besides her acting career, Patti Davis is also a writer and activist, actively involved in social and political issues.

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“Life Lesson 8: Change is always hard, but time softens the rough edges and eases the pull of the past. Eventually, we all climb out from under the bed, and even the most unfamiliar places begin to feel like home.”

Book:Two Cats and the Woman They Own: or Lessons I Learned from My Cats

Source: Two Cats and the Woman They Own: or Lessons I Learned from My Cats

“Years ago, someone asked me what I would say to my younger self if I could. Without hesitating I answered: “That’s easy. I’d have said, ‘Be quiet.’” Not forever. But until I could stand back and look at things through a wider lens. Until I understood that words have consequences, and they last a really long time.”

Family Perspective Reflection Speaking Out Dirty Laundry Advice To Younger Self

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“I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left.”

Would Be Left Term My Own Childhood Clean Wounds Best Things

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“My father never feared death. He never saw it as an ending. I don't know why Alzheimer's was allowed to steal so much of my father before releasing him into the arms of death. But I know that at his last moment, when he opened his eyes - - eyes that had not opened for many, many days - - and looked at my mother, he showed us that neither disease nor death can conquer love.”

Knows Moments Eye Lasts Mother Father Saws Arms Disease Stealing Conquer His Eyes Alzheimer Alzheimer's Never Fear

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“Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.”

Trying Looks Heart Eye Past Father Heard Understood Decades Apology Alzheimer Alzheimer's

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“Alzheimer's disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape.”

Doors Disease Locks Exit Alzheimer Alzheimer's Reprieve

Book:The Long Goodbye

Source: The Long Goodbye

“it ultimately doesn't matter which disease gnaws away at the body - it looks the same. The flesh surrenders, grows exhausted, and the eyes ask why.”

Looks Matter Body Eye Age Asks Grows Dying Disease Flesh Surrender Old Age Exhausted

Book:The Long Goodbye

Source: The Long Goodbye

“[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?”

People States America Choices Father Sleep Streets Arguing Homeless Grate

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“Just think: people decided one day that a day should be set aside for motherhood and fatherhood. What a great concept that is.”

People Thinking Should One Day Concepts Decided Motherhood Fatherhood

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“Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.”

Loss Teach Figures

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“It's one thing to show your love for someone when everything is going fine and life is smooth. But when the 'in sickness and in health' part kicks in and sickness does enter your lives, you're tested. Your resilience is tested.”

Doe Shows Life Is One Thing Fine Resilience Kicks Sickness Smooth Tested

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“I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?”

Ifs Thinking Years Stills Would Be Father Imagine Possibility Mark Celebration Alzheimer Alzheimer's Commemoration

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“The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.”

Way Would Be Deals Situation Mines Ethical Unethical

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“That is your legacy on this Earth when you leave this Earth: how many hearts you touched.”

Heart Earth Legacy Touched

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“The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food.”

Father House Water Grew Grew Up Bird Window Shoes Glasses Boxes Tiny Hospitals Plates Dishes Rags

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“I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.”

Thinking Teach Dying Death And Dying

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“Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.”

Persons Made Mistake

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“There is a point in the grieving process when you can run away from memories or walk straight toward them.”

Running Process Memories Walks Grieving Running Away Grieving Process

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“I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.”

Thinking Believe Order I Believe Parent Effects Accidents

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“I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.”

Children Long Long Time Angry Rebellious Learners Rebellious Child

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“I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.”

Thinking Problem Political Happenings International

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“When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.”

Children Hair Summer Swimming Perfume Summer Days Chlorine

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“I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.”

Ifs Way Writing Firsts Persons Character Difficult Comfortable Thirds First Person Third Person

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“I have a feeling of reverence about my father being in his 80s - a feeling that I want to whisper, take soft steps, not intrude too much. He's like a stately old cathedral to me now.”

Want Feelings Father Steps Too Much Reverence 80s Cathedrals

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“I really just wanted to be a writer, but people tell you, 'You should have a backup career,' so I thought, 'OK, I'll act.' That was the foolishness of my vision for my life - that my backup career would be completely undependable.”

People Should Would Be Wanted Vision Careers Should Have Foolishness Backup Backup Singers

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“I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt and an aunt. We saw them on holidays and other times. We never talked about it, but I just understood that they were a couple.”

Parent Saws Grew Couple Grew Up Understood Eras Holiday Uncles Aunt Aunts And Uncles

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“My father's body lies in a stone tomb high on a hill. People walk by, pause, think their own thoughts about him and move on, back to their own lives. I can never move on. He is everywhere.”

People Thinking I Can Body Moving Lying Father Walks Stones Hills Pauses Tombs

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“I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in the news about her self-publishing success.”

People Book Self News Publishing Considering Amazon Amanda

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“My father, for his part, was not a man to begrudge anyone a divergent opinion; he'd have been fine if I had written some articles disagreeing with his policies, or even given interviews, as long as I was respectful and civil.”

Ifs Men Long Has Beens Father Given Opinion Written Policy Fine Interviews Articles Respectful Divergent

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“Of course, people say maybe there are some self-published books out there that shouldn't be out there. Well, it's the same with conventional publishing.”

People Wells Book Self Courses Publishing Conventional

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“I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.”

Whole Theory Obsessed Conspiracy Veteran Conspiracy Theory Theorists Harvey

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“You have to separate yourself from your parents. You do. In order to find yourself.”

Order Parent Finding Yourself

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“The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique.”

People Thinking Knows Feels Persons Long Gone Disease Unique Losing Loved Ones

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“I think the earlier stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest. Particularly because the person knows that they are losing awareness. They're aware that they're losing awareness, and you see them struggling.”

Thinking Knows Persons Struggle Stage Awareness Losing Hardest Alzheimer Alzheimer's

Author:Patti Davis

“Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body.”

Body Would Be Able Belief Vision Broken Walking Understood Lifetime Broken Heart Broken Promises

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“I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.”

America Brother Odd Sibling Rivalry Sibling Rivalry

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“Stories live in your blood and bones, follow the seasons and light candles on the darkest night-every storyteller knows she or he is also a teacher.”

Knows Stories Light Night Teacher Blood Seasons Bones Storytelling Candle Storyteller

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“Life Lesson 3: You can't rush grief. It has its own timetable. All you can do is make sure there are lots of soft places around - beds, pillows, arms, laps.”

Can Do Grief Arms Lessons Bed Life Lesson Lap Bereavement Pillow Timetables

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“My father started growing very quiet as Alzheimer's started claiming more of him. The early stages of Alzheimer's are the hardest because that person is aware that they're losing awareness. And I think that that's why my father started growing more and more quiet.”

Thinking Persons Father Growing Stage Awareness Quiet Losing Hardest Alzheimer Alzheimer's

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“And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope - nothing else.”

Absence False Hope

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“I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it.”

Knows Writing Happens Moving Things Happen Fascinating Overwhelming Bedtime

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“The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever.”

Long Matter Memories Forever Vivid Good Memories

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“People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love.”

People Thinking Way Want Love Should Capable

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“Laura Bush went on national television during the week of my father's funeral and spoke out against embryonic stem cell research, pointing out that where Alzheimer's is concerned, we don't have proof that stem-cell treatment would be effective.”

“Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.”

People Dies Behinds Wonder

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“It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.”

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“America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.”

People Years Country Feelings America Father Support Taken Illness Grieving Support Systems

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“You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.”

Ifs Knows Long Enough Earth Circles Full Circle

Author:Patti Davis

“Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Stills Would Be Today Taken Research Years Ago Administration Cells Treatment Gates Offering Stem Stem Cell Stem Cell Research

Author:Patti Davis

About the Author

Born: October 21, 1952
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 49

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