T.R. Patrick Quotes

My most popular blogs end up being the ones where I talk about being a dad.

I'm honestly not a big fan of pitching things. I'm a firm believer of letting the product speak for iteself.

If the beard gives a modifier to seduction, I'm guessing it's not a positive one.

Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.

My thought is, if you're a book lover, you're going to enjoy winning a book even if it's not something you'd ordinarily pick up on your own. It's a chance to expand your horizons a little.

I believe a writer's most important skill lies in being able to see things from different perspectives.

Old Cob tucked away his bowl of stew with the predatory efficency of a lifetime bachelor.

I don't speak fluent bumpkin.

I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.

It's hard for me to take myself too seriously when I'm constantly experiencing firsthand what an incredible gimp I can be.

I'm not officially a collector, but I have a strange attraction and a weakness for keys and coins. Old keys and interesting coins.

It's not prowess if you watch 5 hours of TV a day. It's just how you choose to spend your time.

There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.

But I don’t believe every bit of nonsense that gets rumored about.

Humor is important. If you're going to tell any sort of realistic story, you're going to have to have humor in it, because people are funny. Clever people especially.

By your logic I should also be in charge of Solinade dances, needlework, and horse thieving.

The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.

We need time to relax and enjoy ourselves too, no matter how dark the story. The occasional humorous moment helps with that. That's one of the things that Joss Whedon excels at in his storytelling.

Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.

He taught only one class: 'Unlikely Maths'. But since the time was listed as "now" and the place, "everywhere," this was hardly helpful in tracking him down.

You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.

If you're going to have a book full of clever people and nobody ever jokes, it's just not going to ring true to the reader. That said, humor writing is the hardest kind of writing there is.

Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.

Humor is important for is pacing. If your whole book is just drama drama drama, it's going to wear down the reader.

I'm not a role model. I'm an aberation. A statistical anomoly. Following in my footsteps is about the dumbest thing you could ever do.

When someone tells you a piece of their life, they're giving you a gift, not granting you your due.

I don't want to play games with anybody, to our fans, to Pierre Lacroix, or any other NHL team that might have interest in me.

If an opportunity arises, then I won't use school as an excuse not to work.

I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.

I always have a very good relationship with galleries, a lot of galleries and artists, so I don't want any conflict situations.

I'm a collector. I think it's great for everybody. Artists like it, they answer positively.

Art is fantastic, but it's also that you come to Paris, you call me, I come to New York, I come to visit you, we hang out together, and that's art.

Hope is fragile and needs to be tended and renewed.

Old black water, keep on rollin' Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?

Elegant revenge is great. The perfect revenge that lets people see who they actually are for a moment.

I like to look for patterns, in science and life. It’s what I do.

I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.

I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.

I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It’s basically a mini country unto itself.

All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

When I'm meant to be standing in the wings, the only way to go is the ladies' toilets. It's the only time I've ever acted in the toilets.

There's no such thing as "just a domestic".

You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.

It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.

I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.

Where can I go that would give me the same level of satisfaction as an actor?

For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.

I do what I do in my mother's name because I couldn't help her then. Now I can.