Patrick deWitt Quotes
Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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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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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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I am definitely a dog person. I feel like Webster and I are very much alike.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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As much as I long for a sort of security and consistency sometimes, I do enjoy sort of being busted around. I really don't know what's happening sometimes next week, let alone this year.
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R Stevie Moore was obviously a huge influence and is still a very big influence in my life.
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I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.
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This mountain, I thought, was like education: The higher you climbed, the farther you could see.
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Making a movie is universal. Directing a movie is universal; it's a universal language.
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Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
