Patrick deWitt Quotes
I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.Patrick deWitt
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I learn something in the interviews from time to time.
Samantha Bee -
Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.
Ed O'Neill -
I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.
Cameron Diaz -
I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
Kate Walsh -
I like to work all the time and really immerse myself in the project.
Zach Galligan -
I've planned book tours for myself, whether or not anybody wants to hear what I have to say. I've weighed in on things like what the cover looks like, what the copy looks like, how it's going to be promoted - just every aspect of it.
Adam Mansbach
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
Carl Friedrich Gauss -
I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
Ornette Coleman -
It may sound funny, but it's true: I tried to put myself through the 12-step program. I didn't want to attend a real meeting; my role didn't really require that, and I feel those meetings are sort of sacred, and they're anonymous for a reason. I tried to deal with some of my love of snacks - and I relapsed a lot.
Octavia Spencer -
I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.
Tavi Gevinson -
I see myself traveling; I see myself with a much bigger living space than I do have right now. I see myself hopefully on a tour bus at some point.
Kat Dahlia -
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
Octavia E. Butler
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Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
Omar Khayyam -
Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
Fidel Castro -
I like artists who have something to say, not wallpaper.
Yoko Ono -
If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
Zach LaVine -
I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
Vince Gill -
Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
Laura Marling
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Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.
R. Buckminster Fuller -
I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.
Cam Gigandet -
There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
Vanessa Williams -
My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
Natalie Dormer -
'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'
Adam Green -
I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.
Patrick deWitt