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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My audience has lots of people between 20 and 35, but there are always a few 60-year-olds, and it makes me happier than if everyone was 22.
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It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.
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I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'
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The whole point with type is for you not to be aware it is there. If you remember the shape of a spoon with which you just ate some soup, then the spoon had a poor shape.
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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.
