Patrick deWitt Quotes

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

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• It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • May
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Reason

• Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

  

  Yael Stone
  • People
  • Different
  • Together

• In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Today
  • Society
  • Stop

• The truth is, 'Charlie Hebdo' is not a racist magazine. Rather, it is a campaigning anti-racist left-wing magazine.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Truth
  • Truth Is
  • Leftwing

• My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Experience
  • Daughter
  • Therapist

• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Death
  • Christian

• Running back was always my favorite position.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Running
  • Always
  • Back

• I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Know
  • Play
  • Strange

• What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Mind
  • Done
  • War

• I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Best
  • Thought
  • Paradise

• In general, I'm rubbish in heels. I love them, and I own a lot because it's like being in a sweet shop: they're pretty. But I'm not good in them. I don't walk nicely in heels.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Like

• At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Up
  • School
  • Myself

• For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Good
  • Art
  • Serious

• Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Live
  • Fight
  • Victory

• An employee who's one of hundreds, rather than one of a few, is unlikely to feel personally responsible for helping the organization adapt and change.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Change
  • Organization
  • Adapt

• Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Childhood
  • Goal
  • Them

• When I was younger, I talked to the adults around me that I respected most about how they got where they were, and none of them plotted a course they could have predicted, so it seemed a waste of time to plan too long-term. Since then, I've always gone on my instincts.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Time
  • Long
  • Term

• I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.

  

  Reeve Carney
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Write

• I have a necklace with a golden key, given to me by my sisters, which I always wear.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Given
  • Key
  • Golden

• I don't think, by the way, that any network would have given us their show to release all 13 episodes once ahead of them, and the same way, I don't think any studio will give us their movies to release the same day they are in the theaters - not yet, not yet.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Think
  • Day
  • Movies

• My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Write
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  • Cloak