Patrick deWitt Quotes

The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.

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• More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Fashion
  • Need
  • Everything

• I made all my generals out of mud.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Made
  • Mud
  • Generals

• French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Always
  • Photographer
  • Vogue

• Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Help

• There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • World
  • Man
  • Old Man

• If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • High
  • Practice
  • Walking

• I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Good
  • Hand
  • Try

• I like it when my wife is in her jeans, with very little makeup. But, I also appreciate the range - the different ways she can look. The moment she walks out all dressed up and... whoa! That's always good.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• I remember starting out and covering songs.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Remember
  • Songs
  • Starting

• The less you have, the more you enjoy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • More

• I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Want
  • Health care
  • Nurse

• Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Country
  • Door
  • Red

• I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.

  

  Valeria Mazza
  • Children
  • Family
  • Friends

• No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • History
  • Freedom
  • Beginning

• If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Women
  • Suffering

• I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Culture
  • Training
  • Comfortable

• Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • People
  • Work
  • Movies

• I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Gone
  • Bands
  • Had

• My standards are based on shows I like, like 'Girls' or 'Arrested Development.' And they're all shows that are groundbreaking. I guess in the back of my head, I think, If you're not being groundbreaking, then what are you doing? If you're not being ballsy and honest and vulgar, then what are you doing?

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Think
  • Doing
  • Development

• I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Different
  • Parents
  • Language

• Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Business
  • Charity
  • Hardest

• Me and my Photographs are a bit romantic. I do not take photographs in a normal light. Either at sunrise, or sundown, or early in the morning. Besides I want to explain something in every frame. Every image has to have a message.

  

  Ara Guler
  • Romantic
  • Message
  • Photographs

• I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Way
  • Confidence
  • Personality

• The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.

  

  Patrick deWitt
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