Patrick White Quotes
I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.
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Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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America is huge.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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Every time you treat an Iraqi disrespectfully, you are working for the enemy.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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The public school education system has done so much for me that it would be wrong not give anything back.
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Every morning you get up, risk starts.
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Now people are coming up to meet me at my shows and they're doing my bits! One guy earlier was at 7-11 and he comes up to me and goes "you want a falcon?".
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I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
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I just never really thought of not being involved, because when I write the songs I take them to a certain place and by that point I kinda know what I want them to sound like.
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I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
