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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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.
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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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So I consider myself a dog person. Kind of. Had dogs when I was a kid, but my parents would never have dreamed of having them in the house.
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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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Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized.
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I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.
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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
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Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.
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From a poor man, poor in Time, I was suddenly lifted up into a vast revenue; I could see no end of my possessions; I wanted some steward, or judicious bailiff, to manage my estates in Time for me.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
