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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Looking back on my whole experience, the biggest takeaway was just being proud of what you do, and knowing that it's okay to do your best even if it's not the best. That's sort of the theme. I mean, obviously I'm not the best singer, obviously I'm not the best piano player or the best songwriter, but I'm doing my best on all of 'em. Once you have all those things in place, then I think everything falls the way it should.
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Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.
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There's always going to be an element of pressure when you walk on the stage.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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I would love to play a main character and then play different characters as well. I would want for it to be a sitcom, multicamera, audience - that's definitely a dream. It's in the works, so... it's closer than everybody thinks it is.
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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.
