Patrick deWitt Quotes
After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.
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I brought several national projects to Katihar.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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I have never looked at a child and been so angry that I flipped out.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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When you have young children, it is hard to see live performances. Unless I am in it. I do manage to see my husband Rupert Goold's work, of course.
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Moving from corporate banking to retail banking to international banking to supervisory roles has meant completely reinventing myself.
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I support this war on terror and the war on radical Islam.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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At one school I visited, everyone had read 'Halo,' and they were all dressed up as angels - with halos!
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Precisely at the moment when an athletic career is most on the line and fan perceptions of a Herculean, supra-human performance are highest, an athlete's brain may be at its most vulnerable.
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After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times.
