Patrick Rafter Quotes
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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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
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Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.
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We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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You have good days and bad days.
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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
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The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
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I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have my first kiss until really, really late.
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Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.
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I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.
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But I want to do good work, after this series.
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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I used to listen to the soundtrack for the movie 'Tank Girl' all the time. It was really good.
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Initially, I wanted to write middle grade. YA scared me: there's a lot of responsibility in being a YA author. It's so important to give that age range the right books that reflect their world and show them themselves.
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I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.
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I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.
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Look, I tried the cat experiment. On the third trial, the cat was dead. On each of the subsequent 413 trials, it remained dead. Am I doing something wrong?
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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.
