Patrick Cox Quotes
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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I want to have a long career.
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I'm very fortunate. I have a wonderful family, lots of hobbies and athletic pursuits. I always wanted to have a very well-rounded life.
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In our family health, it's about having a balanced life, about laughing and staying on a positive note.
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The two things that got everyone's attention about the 'House of Cards' deal was the two-season commitment and David Fincher. After David Fincher directs a series for Netflix, no one else can say, 'Well, I'm not going to direct a series for the Internet.'
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I think newspapers will survive in some form or another.
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Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.
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At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.
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In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearied of the mechanics of fiction writing, got interested in collage nonfiction, and have been writing literary collage ever since.
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I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that.
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Flying is always an unpleasant experience. You wait an hour for every ten minutes you actually spend getting anywhere.
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An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
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I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.
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I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.
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A lot of the teachings really kind of keep me grounded.
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The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves – in their separate, and individual capacities.
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Today is a good day for hiding under pillows.
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I said if I made 10 films in my life, I would be very lucky. That's how I meant it. My fear after my first one was whether they would let me make another one, so I had this goal in my head.
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I really love beautiful, well – made clothes. I don't shop a lot, so I tend to have pieces for a long time. I like mixing vintage with newer designers.
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The attempt to live that way, the attempt to treat everybody - it fails all the time - but the attempt to treat people as equals is a good attempt. It's a very good attempt. And there have been very few governments that have come anywhere near it in the past. The Greeks began to, the Romans began to - they both failed.
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Show some originality and never wear one designer head to toe.
