Patrick deWitt Quotes
Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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I am who I am.
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People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.
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I'm more the sort of person who doesn't like hugging strangers because we don't know each other, so we shouldn't.
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A trade war would be a disaster for the world. It's very easy to slip into a trade war.
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I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.
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When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
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When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance.
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I've been a legitimate fan of Keith Urban's for a long time and have been to a bunch of his concerts.
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If I'm afraid of someone on the street, I'll turn to him (it's always a boy) and say, "Excuse me, do you happen to know what time it is?" This is my way of saying to the person, "I see you as a friend, and there is no need to hurt me or take my stuff. Also, I don't even have a watch and I am probably not worth mugging." So far, it's worked like gangbusters... And I've discovered that most people I'm afraid of are actually very friendly.
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I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.
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Here's a Challenge: Study a complicated topic in such detail that anyone interested can nod their head and understand as you explain specific concepts within the topic.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
