Patrick deWitt Quotes
I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
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I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.
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Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with 'what can I give' spirit.
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The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
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When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.
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It's different playing in a studio than it is playing live, of course.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
