Patrick Dempsey Quotes

I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

Patrick Dempsey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 13, 1966

Topics

LifeSmallThoughtMy LifeLookUp

I feel like, in the Czars, for example, I was afraid. I couldn't express myself. I didn't have a connection to myself. That's one of the huge reasons why it was such a difficult existence. I put a lot of that on myself. I couldn't access myself. I couldn't look at myself, because I was too ashamed.

John Grant

MyselfFeelConnectionLookWhy

What makes this story so remarkable is that throughout my early childhood I had ongoing learning difficulties, particularly in mathematics. I struggled to learn the multiplication table, and no matter how hard I tried, I simply couldn't remember 6 times 7 or 7 times 8.

Andrew Lo

LearningMathematicsChildhoodStory

I was a very good tennis player in Ottawa, Canada - nationally ranked when I was, like, 13. Then I moved to Los Angeles when I was 15, and everyone in L.A. just killed me. I was pretty great in Canada. Not so much in Los Angeles.

Matthew Perry

GoodGreatMeCanadaLos Angeles

Wealth plays out in the political sphere in all kinds of ways, often personally. Can Hillary Clinton represent the interests of working people when she and her husband have taken so much money from Wall Street? Was Mitt Romney's private-equity business too ruthless with workers?

Anand Giridharadas

BusinessMoneyPeopleHusbandWall

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon.

Ambrose Bierce

ActionSeekApprovalCourseDecided

I really like London now. But probably, in the future, when I need to bring my child to the school and take up a school, when I finish my career, I'd prefer to come back to my country. It's normal. For me, I prefer the place I was born.

Alvaro Morata

FutureSchoolChildMeCareerBorn

Neal Stephenson handles exposition better than anybody else. I keep trying to learn his tricks, but every time I duck into his pages, I get lost in the stories all over again and forget that I'm a writer.

Stephen Graham Jones

TimeBetterDuckLearnTryingLost

People cross the road to give me their autographs.

Stephen Morris

PeopleMeRoadGive MeGiveCross

I see people with laptops as being enslaved to something they can't live without.

Stephen Rea

LivePeopleSeeWithoutI SeeBeing

A simple ballet wrap sweater heats the back muscles but is easy to put on or take off without disturbing a dancer's makeup or hair before a performance or during a workout.

Mary Helen Bowers

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And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.

Debbie Harry

MeYearNewImportantVeryEve

If I can't outplay you in football, I'm gonna fight ya.

Brock Lesnar

FootballFightYouGonnaYa

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