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I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer.

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Cancer, Smoking, Pancreatic Cancer

"Patrick Swayze Opens Up About Cancer Battle, Blames Smoking". Interview with Barbara Walters, www.mtv.com. January 7, 2009.

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Everything is designed to help you sell out.

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Helping, Sells

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A person who can connect with their partner, another human being who can connect with their soul − it's not just learning steps, it's about expressing something. I've found in dancing all my life that I can release something as a dancer that I can't in any other way.

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Dance, Dancing, Soul

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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

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Successful, Games, Trying

"Swayze's Best Act: Being Able to Show Up" by Bill Carter, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2008.

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You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

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Growing Up, Kids, Fighting

"FOR YOUNG VIEWERS; Into Africa: Patrick Swayze's 19th-Century Eco Trip". Interview with Jody Alesandro, www.nytimes.com. June 6, 2004.

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What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

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Powerful, Passion, Caring

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The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

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Life Going On, Goes On, Faces

"Stars pay tribute to Patrick Swayze, the brave cowboy and star of Dirty Dancing" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. September 16, 2009.

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How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

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Attitude, Men, Statistics

"Patrick Swayze: 'Chemo is Hell on Wheels'", www.foxnews.com. October 29, 2008.

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There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.

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Beautiful, Dancing, Care

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I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.

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Anger, Way, Raised

"Patrick Swayze pledges to beat cancer and launch TV comeback" by Rebecca Evans, Matt Roper, www.mirror.co.uk. March 7, 2008.

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Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far.

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Stupid, Hands, Talent

"Patrick Swayze Joins Other Celebrities in Defending Mel Gibson", www.foxnews.com. August 7, 2006.

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When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.

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Home, People, Might

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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.

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Exercise, People, Insanity

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It just blows me away that I am on, I don't know what generation of fans.

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Blow, Fans, Generations

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I think what creates a winner is a person who can connect with their partner - another human being.. connect with their soul

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Thinking, Soul, Winner

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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

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Hot, Looks, May

"Patrick Swayze Hospitalized With Pneumonia" by Katie N. Thomson, Rob Wallace, abcnews.go.com. January 9, 2009.

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When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.

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Pits, Bulls, Way

"Patrick Swayze Joins Other Celebrities in Defending Mel Gibson", www.foxnews.com. August 7, 2006.

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You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.

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Pregnancy, Dancer, Magic

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If anybody had that cure out there like so many people swear to me they do, you'd be two things: you'd be very rich, and you'd be very famous. Otherwise, shut up.

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Cancer, Two, People

"Swayze: Outlived Most With Pancreatic Cancer" by Joseph Brownstein, abcnews.go.com. September 16, 2009.

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My indigestion issues got gigantic and constant. And then I started thinking, I'm getting skinny. I dropped about 20 pounds in the blink of an eye. And then when you see it in the mirror, when all of a sudden, you pull your eyes down and the bottom of your eyes go yellow and jaundice sets in - then you know something's wrong.

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Eye, Thinking, Mirrors

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Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.

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Way, Sometimes, Moments

"TV Guide Network to Air Dirty Dancing Marathon on Christmas" by Gina DiNunno, www.tvguide.com. December 22, 2009.

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I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.

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Hollywood, Feds, Fed Up

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There's just something about dance. It's like a primal thing in all of us.

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Inspirational, Dance, Primal

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As always, I appreciate all the love and support people have sent and continue to send my way.

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People, Appreciate, Support

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Surfing's the source. Can change your life. Swear to god

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Swear To God, Surfing, Changing Your Life

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Born: August 18, 1952
Died: September 14, 2009
Occupation: Actor
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