Patrick deWitt Quotes
I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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They don't call it the Internet anymore, they call it cloud computing. I'm no longer resisting the name. Call it what you want.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it.
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It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the time to pack it in.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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I met Jared Leto at Soho House in Berlin.
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Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.
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Our policy is not to discourage the private sector, but to see that Air India plays the role of flagship in the industry. In the transport sector, Air India is the 'fate of India' and all efforts will be made to restore its past glory.
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In relationships, I'm usually the one who's like, 'Oh, I don't need this right now. I don't need commitment. I can do well on my own. I'm independent,' and all this stuff, and I realized recently that that was making me really closed off to relationships and just closed off to anyone no matter who they were.
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I'd like to know what I could do if I really had the time to spend on writing a book, with no columns or shows to do at the same time.
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The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
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Over periods of 10,000 years the distinctions between Western and Eastern and African cultures lose all meaning. Over a time span of 100,000 years we are all Africans. And over a time span of 300 million years we are all amphibians, waddling uncertainly out of dried-up ponds onto the alien and hostile land.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
