Patrick deWitt Quotes
My interest in words and literature is always changing. And every day of work is different, and it doesn't feel laborious in the way that, say, washing dishes did. I'm quite happy to be doing what I'm doing, and I feel very lucky.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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In America, people think being South Asian is still kind of exotic. When you go outside New York and Chicago and L.A., there are people who have never tried Indian food... they've never even tasted it!
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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I'm not politically correct.
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Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achieve the success in the industry I want, and get married. If I achieve both of those, I can die completely stoked. I don't need anything else.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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I think everyone is forgetting what plastic surgery is for - if you have a face-eating tumour, lose a breast or are involved in a car accident, then it's a good idea.
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I do know how life can go one way or another and that it's not all just black and white, and there are many different situations and twists and turns in life.
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I can only hope that one day soon we'll understand our true economic buying power by investing in our own communities and putting our money into businesses that keep our dollars in our community.
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Oh tell me where the answer lies,Is it in the notebook behind your eyes?
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What's emerging is a new synthesis of science, spirituality and leadership as different facets of a single way of being.
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I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.
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My interest in words and literature is always changing. And every day of work is different, and it doesn't feel laborious in the way that, say, washing dishes did. I'm quite happy to be doing what I'm doing, and I feel very lucky.
