I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.
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Related I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen. PATRICK RAFTER Winning a Grand Slam is not something I'll think about. DAVID FERRER I'm not the first player to have their home Grand Slam and not perform. There have been a few Au... SAMANTHA STOSUR I think because I was the first Chinese player to win a grand slam, people were thinking: 'She... LI NA Now I can say I'm a Grand Slam champion, and it sounds really crazy. ANGELIQUE KERBER My whole life, I've been working really hard, and I can say I'm a grand slam champion. ANGELIQUE KERBER I'm basically a cocktail jazz kind of pianist. I'll be the first to admit that I'm not a... RAY MANZAREK I believe I have quality, and that's why I won a grand slam, so I know I can do it again. ANA IVANOVIC I don't know which way I'm going. My next CD might be country, might be Dylan, might be Mick... MAVIS STAPLES I don't slam doors in people's faces, and I'm not a bigot. SHERMAN HEMSLEY Winning the second grand slam, it was a bit different. I don't have anything to prove anymore. I... ANGELIQUE KERBER Reaching my first grand slam final was amazing, and I didn't expect it at just 19 years old. CAROLINE WOZNIACKI Oh, my God, I don't think any player can look forward to or expect to a career of so many Grand ... ROGER FEDERER I get my drive and determination from just winning and playing tennis. I know if I don't work, I... SAMANTHA STOSUR I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory t... KIM CLIJSTERS Within two months I made the grand slam: covers of 'American Vogue', 'Italian Vogue'... LINDA EVANGELISTA Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back. DON HEROLD I'd like to win the Masters and the PGA and complete the career Grand Slam. ERNIE ELS I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don... WARREN SPECTOR This is a dream from when I was kid. I'm playing tennis almost 18 years, and of course everybody... AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA I won a grand slam with an Audemars Piguet on my wrist, so I feel it is a great match. STANISLAS WAWRINKA I have permits to be the first person in the world to walk across the Grand Canyon so that's a p... NIK WALLENDA I am very proud of what we have achieved together; getting Andy into the top 50 and winning his firs... MARK PETCHEY Who knows, she can then be the top-two or the number one, or even win a Grand Slam. MATS WILANDER I never expected to win a Grand Slam because, for me, I was not good enough to beat those guys. STANISLAS WAWRINKA I'm very proud to be the first winner of the Indian Grand Prix, but then on the other hand we re... SEBASTIAN VETTEL I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good ... RALPH BAKSHI I can't really believe this, that I'm in the final of a grand slam, MARIANO PUERTA Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I... VENUS WILLIAMS I don't know how long I'll be competing, but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing... BETHANY HAMILTON I might be too emotional to be a manager. You love your players, don't you? And I'm not sure... ALAN SMITH I would never stay under circumstances where I felt I was a figurehead and might look good in your t... JERRY WEST I think New Zealand can do the grand slam ZINZAN BROOKE I would love to appear in 'The Defenders.' I don't know - because hopefully she'll m... ELODIE YUNG I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody ... HARRY ANDERSON I don't like grand restaurants or kowtowing waiters. I don't need that kind of attention and... DANIELLE STEEL I'm the best PlayStation player you'll ever see. I'll play anything. 'Call of Duty,&... BEN SIMMONS I do say things that I think will shock people. But I don't do things to shock people. I'm n... EMINEM I'm lucky because my dad taught me to be frugal and save. And that's important because I wan... ASHLEY GREENE I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they 'slam dunk.' That's sexy. EMMA BUNTON I'm not particularly needy, and I'm not particularly anxious. I don't look for a directo... CATE BLANCHETT I'm not driven by killer ambition. I'm not a workaholic. I'm a good team player. I don... JANE PAULEY It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too.
(after winning the Grand Slam Cup.) VENUS WILLIAMS It was a warning-track shot. I thought he had hit a grand slam. JOEY KALMUS I'm a bad loser, but I'm not a good winner either - I like to rub it in people's faces! CAROLINE WINBERG I don't need many things. I don't need glamour and attention to be happy. I'm very happy... MARIA SHARAPOVA Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, the... OLGA KORBUT I'll be the first one to admit that if I have conclusions based on faulty premises, then let me ... GARY JOHNSON I'm a pretty good winner. I'm a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win. TOM BRADY I don't think of myself as a leader. I am, but I don't think of myself that way. I'm not... JUDITH JAMISON I don't know what I'll be like when I'm 60. I already have the traits of a retired gentl... DAVID WALLIAMS When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by... MARIA SHARAPOVA Unfortunately, the public might not know that we get a script usually two days before shooting. So s... FISHER STEVENS I used to say, 'Man, I think I'd be a really good dad. I'll be a great provider. I'm... ELIZABETH GILBERT I don't have too many bad days because I just don't let them happen. When I'm having one... MATT DALLAS I couldn't care less if the guy I'm guarding has HIV. I'm going to slam him anyway. DENNIS RODMAN My thing about looking good is that it should be the character. If I'm playing a character who... AIDAN QUINN As I remember it, the bases were loaded.
(asked his reaction to hitting a grand slam) GARRY MADDOX I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bri... BOB UECKER Are there any good guys on 'Prison Break?' I suppose there might be. I can't honestly sa... CHRIS VANCE I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remem... GALE SAYERS I don't have a grand master plan, but I try to be thoughtful when I can and also silly. It's... JOSH CHARLES I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred,... ZADIE SMITH I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes... ARUNDHATI ROY I don't think I'll be remembered in a big Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin way. I think I'l... SKRILLEX I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player. LEE DEWYZE I love competing against the best players. I have a huge challenge, and that's to win a U.S. Ope... PHIL MICKELSON The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS I don't want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don't even know if ... AVRIL LAVIGNE It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that.... CHLOE SEVIGNY I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don... KEITH EMERSON I'll go grocery shopping at the farmer's market on a Sunday and already know what I'm go... TIA MOWRY I don't think I'd be a very good talk show host. I mean, I'm very talkative but I don... EMMA ROBERTS I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'... BENICIO DEL TORO That is what made America great: that everyone had the opportunity to be a winner. And I think it... JAMES P. GORMAN Pain seems to be easier, or melancholy seems to be easier to portray in a character. I don't kno... COLIN FARRELL Some women give birth and then two weeks later look amazing. I don't think I'm going to be o... SARA RUE I just don't think I'm equipped to soundtrack the times. There might be someone out there wh... ALEX TURNER When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the street... LARRY DAVID It would be amazing if I could win here as it's the toughest Grand Slam to win, just because of the ... MARIA SHARAPOVA I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a ... OLIVIA MUNN Project Grand Slam. GARRY MARSHALL We might not be back. I might be in jail. I might be anywhere. But when I leave, you'll remember... FRED HAMPTON I'm not sure I would be a good godmother. I have read about it, and I found that the godmother... SUSAN GLASPELL The road will be one long, I'm sure at that. So far the real friends are few, but few more challange... DEYTH BANGER People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong o... PETE SAMPRAS I'm not the most powerful. I'm not the fastest. I don't have the best arm. I don't h... BEN ZOBRIST Look, I'm a member of the House of Lords and I'm the first to admit that I don't underst... ALAN SUGAR I'll post a video, and it might get 10,000 comments, and I'll scroll through and they'll... ZOE SUGG I feel much stronger now and I know what it takes to reach a grand slam final. I just feel I need to... ELENA DEMENTIEVA Comedy doesn't really matter that much; I know that. I treat it like an adult - I don't trea... BO BURNHAM And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the w... AMBER TAMBLYN I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the e... CARROLL SHELBY I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... ELTON JOHN I don't want to be Carrie Bradshaw. I don't want the wedding to be bigger than Big. I'm ... NIECY NASH As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I m... BJORN BORG I think it would be difficult to argue that I'm a net-negative for womankind. I've tried pre... ARIEL LEVY My dream was always to win a grand slam, and my second dream was to be No. 1. ANGELIQUE KERBER I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But ... DYLAN O'BRIEN I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But ... DYLAN O'BRIEN
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You've got to be realistic. PATRICK RAFTER I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen. PATRICK RAFTER I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself. PATRICK RAFTER I'm sick of making bloody history. PATRICK RAFTER Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do. PATRICK RAFTER I don't know if Wimbledon's seen anything like it. I don't know if they will again. But ... PATRICK RAFTER He's naturally very gifted. Scotty's always been very unique in that way, PAT RAFTER The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked. SAINT PATRICK I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth... SAINT PATRICK He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen... SAINT PATRICK I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble... SAINT PATRICK I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir... SAINT PATRICK The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi... SAINT PATRICK Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde... SAINT PATRICK I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec... SAINT PATRICK I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child. SAINT PATRICK I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some. SAINT PATRICK No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco... SAINT PATRICK The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins. SAINT PATRICK It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o... SAINT PATRICK Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H... SAINT PATRICK Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h... SAINT PATRICK I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ... SAINT PATRICK The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough. SAINT PATRICK The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed. PATRICK HENRY For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that ... PATRICK LENCIONI Teamwork is a strategic decision. PATRICK LENCIONI How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to ... PATRICK SWAYZE Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sen... PATRICK LENCIONI Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor... PATRICK HENRY Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general... PATRICK HENRY Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps? PATRICK HENRY It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which... PATRICK HENRY Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never ... PATRICK HENRY The great object is that every man be armed. PATRICK HENRY This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one whic... PATRICK HENRY Fear is the passion of slaves. PATRICK HENRY The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I ... PATRICK HENRY We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our pow... PATRICK HENRY Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among... PATRICK HENRY If this be treason, make the most of it! PATRICK HENRY I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. PATRICK HENRY There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. ... PATRICK LEAHY We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one i... PATRICK LEAHY Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America... PATRICK LEAHY I'm a gun owner. PATRICK LEAHY Judiciary is where my passion is. PATRICK LEAHY You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions. PATRICK LEAHY The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been sug... PATRICK LEAHY A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one stan... PATRICK LEAHY Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why thin... PATRICK LEAHY Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce... PATRICK LABYORTEAUX I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative... PATRICK LABYORTEAUX David James Elliott and I keep in touch via phone. PATRICK LABYORTEAUX Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge... PATRICK LABYORTEAUX Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and th... PATRICK KAVANAGH In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from ... PATRICK KAVANAGH Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damag... PATRICK KAVANAGH Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected wor... PATRICK KAVANAGH Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left. PATRICK KAVANAGH Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figur... PATRICK KAVANAGH Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie... PATRICK KAVANAGH The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being... PATRICK KAVANAGH The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public iss... PATRICK KAVANAGH What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true. PATRICK KAVANAGH A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and tal... PATRICK KAVANAGH In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesti... PATRICK KAVANAGH How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it... PATRICK KAVANAGH Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination. PATRICK KAVANAGH I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman... PATRICK KAVANAGH There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casu... PATRICK KAVANAGH Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is ... PATRICK KAVANAGH I've noticed if you look too far ahead, it only works negatively on you. PATRICK KANE If I was bigger I might not have had the same skill set as I do, the speed. PATRICK KANE I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get... PATRICK KANE It's funny: when you're skating around during warm-ups, I'll see signs that say things l... PATRICK KANE I stickhandle a lot at practice. I watch a lot of hockey, so I try to either pick up something from ... PATRICK KANE When I go down the ice, I feel it, the wind in the side of my hair, and then I got the party in the ... PATRICK KANE If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, p... PATRICK KANE We're here to win. We're not here just for the experience. PATRICK KANE I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about wha... PATRICK KANE Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and gettin... PATRICK KANE I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be. PATRICK KANE There are some guys you definitely would not want dating your sister - especially hockey players. PATRICK KANE I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town. PATRICK KANE I want to be someone who can be a role model to kids - and to everyone, for that matter. PATRICK KANE I love scoring for the fans, for the team, for myself. That's not to say that I won't pass i... PATRICK KANE The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the othe... PATRICK KANE I love to play the game, love to be around the rink, and love to joke around with my teammates and h... PATRICK KANE Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not li... PATRICK KANE I love to score goals, and I love to plan my celebrations. PATRICK KANE I don't want to be satisfied with where I'm at or happy about what I've done. I want to ... PATRICK KANE Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you alway... PATRICK KANE Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn. PATRICK KANE My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans a... PATRICK KANE It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself. PATRICK KANE Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic ... PATRICK GEDDES Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant i... PATRICK GEDDES But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time. PATRICK GEDDES I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul... PATRICK FUGIT Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks d... PATRICK FUGIT There are these girls who live in Maryland: they're the Patrick Super Fan Club Association of Am... PATRICK FUGIT If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're craz... PATRICK FUGIT It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like... PATRICK FUGIT The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: K... PATRICK FUGIT One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. B... PATRICK FUGIT I'm not a very fast-paced person. PATRICK FUGIT I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby. PATRICK FUGIT I totally respond to complex characters, and I'm not interested in anything too simple. PATRICK FISCHLER I would love to play a regular guy in a family drama. PATRICK FISCHLER 'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought th... PATRICK FISCHLER I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me. PATRICK FISCHLER I do a lot of shows I've actually never seen, and I hadn't seen 'Castle' or 'Sca... PATRICK FISCHLER I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It... PATRICK FISCHLER Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It st... PATRICK EWING New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstand... PATRICK EWING I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York. PATRICK EWING I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to ... PATRICK EWING This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year c... PATRICK EWING Most of the fans will still be Knick fans. PATRICK EWING I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely o... PATRICK EWING Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready. PATRICK EWING I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity... PATRICK EWING When I played with the Knicks, I was just as important or just as smart as any other of the guards I... PATRICK EWING I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I&... PATRICK EWING Amare, Carmelo Anthony, Chauncey Billups - they're virtually unstoppable. PATRICK EWING Every time when they would call my name I kept hearing 'New York Knicks' instead of 'Sea... PATRICK EWING Every parent wants to see their kids excel. PATRICK EWING Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach. PATRICK EWING I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me an... PATRICK EWING If I want to average 32 points a game, I can do that easily. It's just eight, eight, eight, eigh... PATRICK EWING Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener. PATRICK EWING People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the sma... PATRICK EWING Brooklyn, it's a great town, a great city. It's New York. PATRICK EWING I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed. PATRICK DUFFY I quit it because at the end of seven years in an ensemble show with one leader, I thought: 'I w... PATRICK DUFFY I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an archite... PATRICK DUFFY Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about dr... PATRICK DUFFY It's great to be able to do shows like 'Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door,' which ... PATRICK DUFFY I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reaso... PATRICK DUFFY I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's ... PATRICK DUFFY I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started ... PATRICK DUFFY I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. A... PATRICK DUFFY It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forc... PATRICK DUFFY I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career. PATRICK DUFFY Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors. PATRICK DUFFY There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you ma... PATRICK DUFFY The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end th... PATRICK DUFFY I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I o... PATRICK DUFFY I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness ... PATRICK DUFFY Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but... PATRICK DUFFY There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon. PATRICK DUFFY Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am... PATRICK DUFFY The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each pro... PATRICK DEWITT Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family me... PATRICK DEWITT I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend m... PATRICK DEWITT A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the wo... PATRICK DEWITT When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that make... PATRICK DEWITT I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised... PATRICK DEWITT The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in w... PATRICK DEWITT I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think t... PATRICK DEWITT If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong. PATRICK DEWITT Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tr... PATRICK DEWITT By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, ... PATRICK DEWITT The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it... PATRICK DEWITT Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want t... PATRICK DEWITT At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what thi... PATRICK DEWITT I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There&... PATRICK DEWITT I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love. PATRICK DEWITT Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it... PATRICK DEWITT More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don... PATRICK DEWITT All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - const... PATRICK DEWITT Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it ... PATRICK DEWITT Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of cra... PATRICK DEWITT I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting... PATRICK DEWITT As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don... PATRICK DEWITT I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am ... PATRICK DEWITT I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people. PATRICK DEWITT When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the sta... PATRICK DEMPSEY My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pr... PATRICK DEMPSEY My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much. PATRICK DEMPSEY In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering... PATRICK DEMPSEY I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought... PATRICK DEMPSEY With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it wi... PATRICK DEMPSEY If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury. PATRICK DEMPSEY The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you c... PATRICK DEMPSEY Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comed... PATRICK DEMPSEY You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house. PATRICK DEMPSEY I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to rid... PATRICK DEMPSEY I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to ... PATRICK DEMPSEY I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman. PATRICK DEMPSEY People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously. PATRICK DEMPSEY I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York ... PATRICK DEMPSEY The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the ... PATRICK DEMPSEY Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take... PATRICK DEMPSEY Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll ... PATRICK DEMPSEY Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDre... PATRICK DEMPSEY I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as o... PATRICK DEMPSEY I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect l... PATRICK DEMPSEY I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it w... 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