Patrick deWitt Quotes
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her.
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You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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It's upsetting that it is such a big deal. I wish it weren't an issue all the time. It's funny that people say it's a departure, because I've been acting since I was a child. I've played three gay roles out of hundreds.
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I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.
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I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
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Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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I don't think you can ever regain your ignorance.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
