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 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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There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
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I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing.
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I think he [Heidegger] sets the question up in a useful way and, despite appearances, he's not 'against' technology. He just wants us to have a questioning and thoughtful relation to it. This must be relevant to any approach.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
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I used to listen a lot to Rolling Stones records and play along with them when I was first starting. It's a good way to learn, jamming around basic music.
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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.
