D. Patrick Miller Quotes
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
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In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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This was the period when I used all the influence I had to get the British to abandon their export trade, and as much as possible convert all of their manufacturing facilities to the immediate needs of the war, including civilian, as well as military requirements.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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There is too much employer-employee relationship in America. I wish the musicians would feel that many decisions have to do with them and not delegate everything to management or to the board or to the committee. This is why you get a sense of pride in some of the European orchestras: because they are part of the decision-making.
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No one has debates on Twitter.
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My family was once invited to lunch at a chateau owned by a friend of a friend. As we drove our rental car up to the giant castle, my kids gasped and said, 'They must be rich!'
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Attention is the key; for where man's attention goes, there goes his energy, and he himself can only follow.
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Politics is not an obsession with me. It's something I'm doing now. I want to do good things, but if it doesn't work out for me, I'll go on to something else.
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Religion has become the blind spot of American journalism.
