I'm sort of a slob.


Patricia Heaton

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[Patricia Heaton from] Everybody Loves Raymond ... Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania.
DAVID HUNT
I loved 'Everybody Loves Raymond' because I like Ray and I thought it was beautifully cast, ...
BOB NEWHART
I'm a romantic slob!
WILLIE NELSON
I'm not the easiest person to live with. I'm kind of a slob.
KATIE HOLMES
I'm a slob. I live in sweatpants and workout clothes.
DINAH MANOFF
I'm living with two guys. I'm living with a slob and a guy who sleeps all day.
DEVON SAWA
I'm the biggest slob in the world. My apartment is a mess.
MONICA KEENA
I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magi...
JENNY ECLAIR
I like Patricia. I LOVE Patricia. Patricia makes COFFEE nervous.
YOU'VE GOT MAIL
I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.
CLARK GABLE
My personal style falls between casual cool and meticulous slob. I'm most comfortable in jeans, ...
REID SCOTT
I'm sort of a straight shooter.
ELIZABETH RODRIGUEZ
I'm only sort of a politician.
ALEXEI NAVALNY
I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'...
SAM NEILL
In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites...
ELEANOR CATTON
Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, ...
JULIA CHILD
I'm not working now, so I'm sort of facing the unknown.
RADHA MITCHELL
I'm a very nurturing kind of person and a sort of a homemaker. I'm just interested in things...
JACQUELINE BISSET
By nature I'm sort of an introvert.
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
I'm sort of a foot-on-the-gas kind of guy.
DAVID DUFFIELD
I'm sort of like a maniac, and I can't get out of it.
VINCENT GALLO
I can be a lazy slob.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE
I guess I'm still sort of feisty and a little bit of a tomboy.
KELLY HU
I'm the sort of person who keeps a lot to myself.
PATRICK RAFTER
When I come home, I say I'm coming home to Dublin. When I'm in Dublin, I say I'm going h...
COLUM MCCANN
I'm not really a cutter-off sort of person. I'll chat to anybody.
FRANK BRUNO
When you get a question like, 'Did you like meeting Her Majesty?' 'No, I thought she was...
JERRY LEWIS
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrench...
ADAM CAROLLA
I'm not like a legend that - so I'm sort of in the middle in this sort of gray area where, y...
BRIAN MCKNIGHT
Most of my friends from college became dental hygienists or went into retail, a lot went into sales....
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What I found in the Protestant faith was that your salvation is secure, and that the rest is process...
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does regi...
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I think there's a difference when you make fun of yourself and your own behavior, and when you d...
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Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.
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I'm always dissing Ray and making fun of him, talking about his money.
PATRICIA HEATON
I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books ...
PATRICIA HEATON
Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at h...
PATRICIA HEATON
Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at ...
PATRICIA HEATON
I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help...
PATRICIA HEATON
God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.
PATRICIA HEATON
Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced,...
PATRICIA HEATON
Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in th...
PATRICIA HEATON
I was raised Catholic and I'm Presbyterian now, but I've always been a Christian, regardless...
PATRICIA HEATON
I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.
PATRICIA HEATON
It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal...
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I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she ha...
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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness ...
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Christians - whether as a priest, a nun, a minister, whatever - have just been stereotyped to death....
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My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holdin...
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A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.
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We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. The...
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Anytime anybody is rude, it makes me double-check my own behavior to make sure I don't do that t...
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As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs ...
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[(PEOPLE) -- Inside the offices of the production company she created with her actor husband,] Every...
PATRICIA HEATON
When it comes to accepting emotional support or affection, I'm a little guarded and hardened to ...
PATRICIA HEATON
That drives me nuts when they do that,
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when you're working on a series all year, to take the few weeks you have available and go work 12-ho...
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true love, and what it is, and how do you know what it is. Is it just chemistry, or is it years and ...
PATRICIA HEATON
And we're still married to each other. Can you believe that?
PATRICIA HEATON
[The theme of the two-hour film is,] What is true love, and how do you know it when you see it? Is i...
PATRICIA HEATON
What's really great is when people get the jokes, when people laugh,
PATRICIA HEATON
rare sitcom wife who has her own paranoia and faults and downfalls.
PATRICIA HEATON
More kids? It's possible,
PATRICIA HEATON
I love your show,
PATRICIA HEATON
In the past, your dumbness has gotten in the way of a few things that I really wanted to do: The boo...
PATRICIA HEATON
I pick up other people's trash. I'm sort of obsessed.
ERIC CLOSE
I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.
CAROL ANN DUFFY
Everything I do, I'm sort of half in, half out.
HARRISON FORD
I'm sort of the Antichrist to the Conservative Party.
ANDREW CUOMO
I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at in...
NICOLAS CAGE
I was a little bit of a slob who was sort of surrounded by dirty laundry. I can trace the exact mome...
TIM DALY
I just dress how I wanna dress. Not to say that I don't care about how I dress or that I'm a...
ALESSIA CARA
I am not an idiot, and I'm not a Pollyanna sort of kumbaya type.
DAN SAVAGE
I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.
JEFF BEZOS
Before, it was always, 'Oh, no, here comes Clancy, that insurance agent.' Now it's, '...
TOM CLANCY
I'm a very improvisational cook. I sort of like to make things up as I go along. I'm quite c...
GUGU MBATHA-RAW
I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abando...
JAMAICA KINCAID
I've always been a very outdoors sort of girl. I'm more a tomboy than a girly girl.
YVONNE STRAHOVSKI
I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I&...
LENA HORNE
I've got no timetable. I'm sort of sick of timetables, to be honest.
SHIRLEY MANSON
I'm sort of fascinated by the whole espionage crime thing.
AARON ECKHART
I'm brave to say that I won't take this sort of risk.
ALAIN PROST
I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of o...
EMILY MORTIMER
I'm a big fan of vampire movies generally and that sort of tradition of characters.
MICHAEL SHEEN
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small event...
SARA ZARR
I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British p...
AASIF MANDVI
I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
CARLA GUGINO
I'm very accident-prone. The problem is I sort of just do things. I'm impulsive, and sometim...
TOM CULLEN
I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my ...
DANE COOK
If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business.
DONALD TRUMP
I'm not sure I'm the sort of actor people are hugely interested in finding out an awful lot ...
IAIN GLEN
I profoundly believe it takes a lot of practice to become a moral slob.
WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR.
As far as match-ups are concerned, I feel pretty good about matching up with anybody. I'm sort o...
ROMAN REIGNS
Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting bette...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON
I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork - basically everything t...
IAN MACKAYE
I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a sli...
WARIS AHLUWALIA
I'm sort of obsessed with the news. That is a syndrome. But I don't watch a whole lot of TV.
SAM WATERSTON
I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG

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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always sur...
PATRICIA POLACCO
I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it...
PATRICIA POLACCO
Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.
PATRICIA POLACCO
Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to o...
PATRICIA POLACCO
I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare ...
PATRICIA POLACCO
What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and ...
PATRICIA POLACCO
I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most he...
PATRICIA POLACCO
My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o...
PATRICIA POLACCO
I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in ha...
PATRICIA POLACCO
I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish livin...
PATRICIA POLACCO
Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
PATRICIA POLACCO
Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
PATRICIA NORRIS
I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're ha...
PATRICIA NORRIS
As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and ...
PATRICIA NORRIS
When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. W...
PATRICIA NEAL
I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
PATRICIA NEAL
Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gatew...
PATRICIA MILLETT
What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom...
PATRICIA MILLETT
I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivi...
PATRICIA MILLETT
I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court withou...
PATRICIA MILLETT
I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and...
PATRICIA MILLETT
While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity wi...
PATRICIA MILLETT
I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of revie...
PATRICIA MILLETT
My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK
I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into ...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK
The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK
High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French nobl...
PATRICIA MARX
New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
PATRICIA MARX
I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
PATRICIA MARX
I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I ...
PATRICIA MARX
I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alo...
PATRICIA MARX
Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name ...
PATRICIA MARX
Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.
PATRICIA MARX
For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
PATRICIA MARX
I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and se...
PATRICIA MARX
I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
PATRICIA MARX
Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
PATRICIA MARX
The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.
PATRICIA MARX
It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even fiv...
PATRICIA MARX
Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of ...
PATRICIA MARX
Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists cl...
PATRICIA MARX
'Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of char...
PATRICIA MARX