Patrick J. Adams Quotes
The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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I love horse racing, I play golf, and I love travelling.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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I have great family and good friends; the stories I told became popular, and people all over the world bought them.
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There's no such thing as anybody who can't be beat; everybody can be beat. It's a question of how hard you're willing to work. It's a question of the environment, the surroundings. Frankly, there's a lot of issues with timing.
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I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.
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The difference between a stable society and an unstable one is that the restraints in an unstable one are external. In a stable society government ultimately becomes unnecessary; the restraints on people's actions are internal, they're self-disciplined.
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I was born in St. Louis; I lived there for three weeks and then my father graduated from St. Louis University, so we all got in the car and split. I don't really remember much. I grew up in Connecticut most of my life and then four years in Germany. My father worked for a helicopter company, so we went over there.
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How many times can you play an action character, or a quirky romantic? Every actor has to find his own way to make each character unique.
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
