Patrick Duffy Quotes

#1. I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.

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#2. I learned to travel, then I travelled to learn.

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#3. Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

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#4. I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.

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#5. There is no such thing as a weekend for me when I'm at home on my ranch in Oregon.

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#6. I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.

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#7. There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.

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#8. It's great to be able to do shows like 'Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door,' which I think is entirely too long of a title.

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#9. I feel that marrying younger and being quite a young dad helped me with the stability of my career.

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#10. Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!

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#11. I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

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#12. I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.

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#13. I do all the cooking in our family. I'm a utilitarian cook, rather than an adventurous one - I only have about 15 recipes in my repertoire that I rotate - but I love being able to go down to the river and catch a 30 lb. salmon, then grill it on the barbecue.

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#14. Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.

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#15. It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.

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#16. I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just ... 'boom!'

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#17. I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.

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#18. Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.

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