Patrick Swayze Quotes
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.
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I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.
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If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
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I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want.
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I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light.
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One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.
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I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
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When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.
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I like to believe that I've got a lot of guardian warriors sittin' on my shoulder including my dad.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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I don't want to be a poster child for cancer.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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As always, I appreciate all the love and support people have sent and continue to send my way.
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When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.
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I took after my father.