Patrick deWitt Quotes

At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.

Patrick deWitt

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• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Music
  • History
  • Technology

• I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • College
  • New York

• My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Talent

• I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Love
  • Fighting
  • Idea

• I believe that I'm a hillbilly in my values and in my attitudes, and I don't want to lose that. I think it's possible to maintain a big chunk of that identity so long as you're self-reflective and meaningful about it.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Identity

• There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Way
  • Radio
  • Promotion

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

  

  Kara Walker
  • People
  • History
  • Black

• The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Feeling
  • Space
  • Universe

• The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Church
  • Emperor
  • Above

• Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Writing
  • You
  • Pictures

• I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Live
  • Years
  • London

• Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • World
  • Think
  • First

• Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Run

• World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • World
  • Great
  • Done

• It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is so hard to discover and such a surprise when you do.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • You
  • Surprise
  • Washington

• The way a woman or a man handles themselves, at a certain age I can't blame you for the way you act, because somebody didn't bring you up right, and the betterment is why I have a foundation titled Angels and Hearts. That's why I have Trey's Angels: to let women know that they are angels.

  

  Trey Songz
  • Up
  • Women
  • Why

• I'm a big fan of Beyonce and Rihanna. I've listened to Beyonce all my life, and she's a big influence on me.

  

  Kathleen Anne Brien
  • Life
  • She

• My philosophy, in a nutshell, is to wipe out the greatest amount of risk with the least amount of money.

  

  Alan Patricof
  • Money
  • Risk

• Acting is all I know; being on a set is all I know.

  

  Tyler Posey

• At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Age