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I'm from Iowa Falls, Iowa. My dad was a small-town lawyer, and my mom was a pharmacist. She worked at Swartz Drug. I have five older brothers.


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PATRICK DUFFY I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I o...
PATRICK DUFFY I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness ...
PATRICK DUFFY Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but...
PATRICK DUFFY There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.
PATRICK DUFFY Every single unfortunate thing that happens, including, for instance, the murder of my parents, I am...
PATRICK DUFFY The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each pro...
PATRICK DEWITT Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family me...
PATRICK DEWITT I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend m...
PATRICK DEWITT A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the wo...
PATRICK DEWITT When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that make...
PATRICK DEWITT I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised...
PATRICK DEWITT The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in w...
PATRICK DEWITT I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think t...
PATRICK DEWITT If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
PATRICK DEWITT Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tr...
PATRICK DEWITT By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, ...
PATRICK DEWITT The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it...
PATRICK DEWITT Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want t...
PATRICK DEWITT At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what thi...
PATRICK DEWITT I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There&...
PATRICK DEWITT I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
PATRICK DEWITT Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it...
PATRICK DEWITT More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don...
PATRICK DEWITT All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - const...
PATRICK DEWITT Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it ...
PATRICK DEWITT Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of cra...
PATRICK DEWITT I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting...
PATRICK DEWITT As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don&#...
PATRICK DEWITT I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am ...
PATRICK DEWITT I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.
PATRICK DEWITT When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the sta...
PATRICK DEMPSEY My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pr...
PATRICK DEMPSEY My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
PATRICK DEMPSEY In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering...
PATRICK DEMPSEY I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought...
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