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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

Change Childhood Fact Father
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I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.

Before Father Hate Hated
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I don't believe in happy families.
Believe Families Happy
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

Look Forward Time Career
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Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

About Anything Anything Else Else
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Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.

Now Just Known As
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.

Effects Other Subtle Travel
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

About Books I Love Journeys
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I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.

God Heaven Just Literary
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!

Hate Shaving Much Easier
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It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.

Article Faith Forever Inside
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The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

Best Part About Being
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.

College Come Know Love
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I've met many, many writers who say they would never write about their family, never write about people they did not totally make up. But that is not the composition of my character.

About Character Composition Did
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The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst.

Worst Part About Married
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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.

Course Fascinated God Grew
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Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

Housekeeping Incredibly Difficult With
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I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

Bit Contradictory Found Human
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The hardest thing about having three kids is trying to find a balance, because there's always the odd man out, and you also need to make sure each child gets the attention he or she needs.

Hardest Thing Having Kids
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There's always a version of me who is the narrator. And I make myself look better than other people.

Always Better LoAlways Better
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.

End Good Good Meal Meal
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I started off as a juggler. I used to do a half-hour show on the weekends to make money as a kid. Then I went to Cleveland, Ohio in 1983 to the international jugglers competition junior division and came second. So that was my first job, being a juggler.

Started Juggler Used Half
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My father's violence is the central fact of my art and my life.

Art Central Fact Father
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When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.

Beach Book Came Couple
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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.

Play Golden Pond I
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A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.

Contain Expressed Family Frail
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I think TV is much more the writer's medium and film is about the director and their vision and how you can collaborate with them and see that through to the end. They are so different.

Think Tv More Writer
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And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

Sure Have If Political
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One reason why I don't drink is because I wish to know when I am having a good time.

Am Because Drink Good
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I married beneath me, all women do.

Beneath Married Me Women
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

Drama Easier Do Because
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

Change Dangers Everything Life
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I love having a big family. I think it's easier, oddly, in some ways, having three children as opposed to one.

Big Children Easier Family
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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women.

Got Made Make Men
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I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.

Physical Like Comedy Old
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The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.

Adam Blame Chance First
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

Admit Am Does Even
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Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

Nothing Else Matters Much
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

Educate Education Far Finer
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My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

Am Cheek I Am Kind
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.

Bored Penalty People Success
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As obvious as it sounds, I strongly recommend shopping at a specialty bike store. They are the experts, and they will be able to help you decide which bike is best for you.

As Obvious Sounds Strongly
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Alone Being Condition Fact
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.

With Bikes Absolutely Case
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The sex drive is the most important and powerful behaviour in mankind.

Sex Important Behaviour Mankind
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People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people.

People Intelligent Well Known
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A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
How Not Prison Judged
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I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

Believe I Believe Men Ungrateful
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A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Money Emotion Real Gentleman
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Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.

Show Me Desire Shows Something
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