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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The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naive. However, I am also not a "Freethinker" in the usual sense of the word because I find that this is in the main an attitude nourished exclusively by an opposition against naive superstition. My feeling is insofar religious as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insuffiency of the human mind to understand deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as "laws of nature." It is this consciousness and humility I miss in the Freethinker mentality.
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There's only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it's all about the detail and how you tell the story. How you say, 'I love you.'
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I'm starting to realize that people are beginning to want to know about me. It's a jolly strange idea.
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The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
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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.
