Patrick deWitt Quotes
I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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To oppose something is to maintain it.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
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A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if I have done nothing to please, I have done nothing to offend; for truly I mean to give both pleasure and offense.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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The shows need youth. All of our comics are getting too famous to do the show regularly. The people who are regulars five years ago, a lot of them have moved on and can't do the show anymore. We can't really get Jim Gaffigan anymore, we can't get Nick Swardson anymore.
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Sometimes, great collaboration is hard to nurture online, so doing so offline is the way to go.
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You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
