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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to 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.
-
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.
-
My mom has helped me nurture my interest and hone my talent.
-
I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
-
The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
-
The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
-
Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
-
Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
-
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.
-
Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.
-
American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in the actual experience gained by generation after generation of English colonists in managing their own political affairs. The Revolution did not make a breach in the continuity of their institutional life.
-
I really don't get nervous when I perform -it's more of an exciting feeling than anything else. But put me in a classroom with kids my age and have me take a test and yeah, I'll be nervous!
-
You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.
-
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.
