Patrick deWitt Quotes
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
Natalie Cole -
Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
Sam Peckinpah -
I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
LaToya Jackson -
If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
Vince Lombardi -
Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
Barbra Streisand -
Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
Dan Aykroyd
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
Taylor Swift -
I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath -
I used to be someone that needed nine hours of sleep; otherwise, I didn't think I was going to sound good when I sang, and I was very disciplined and anal about my preparation. When you become a parent, there just isn't that time, you know?
Idina Menzel -
If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
Fannie Lou Hamer -
People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
Ira Glass -
While Romney has an overall deficit with women voters, his biggest disadvantage is with college educated women - wherever they work, at home, in an office, a store or a factory.
Mara Liasson
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
E. L. Konigsburg -
You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
Jack Nicholson -
You know what a champion is? A champion is someone who's ready when the gong rings - not just before, not just after - but when it rings.
Jack Dempsey -
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
Barbara Sukowa -
I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
Natasha Bedingfield -
I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
Larry Holmes
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I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.
Hannah Murray -
There's no way to reconstruct reality. It happened once. What you do is reinterpret and recreate. Even if you have the person who lived it and did it next to you, the event happened just once.
Edgar Ramirez -
I grew up really loving old-school horror such as 'Halloween' and 'The Birds.'
Maika Monroe -
My grandfather and I were very close.
Tea Obreht -
In my fantasies, I always wanted to play the ingenue, but in reality, in my bones, I am so used to playing the grandmother that I don't feel safe or even sure that I can do it.
Camryn Manheim -
I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
Patrick deWitt