Patrick deWitt Quotes

My interest in words and literature is always changing. And every day of work is different, and it doesn't feel laborious in the way that, say, washing dishes did. I'm quite happy to be doing what I'm doing, and I feel very lucky.

Patrick deWitt

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If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

Joe Rogan

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I find people who want to help other people to be the most interesting. I come from a family of teachers, and my friends are teachers, often times in very difficult school situations.

Jesse Eisenberg

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I am a late discoverer of 'Friday Night Lights.' I cry every episode at least once. I love to cry - happy, emotional tears. I just love it.

Andy Cohen

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Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

John Morley

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We may have to force people to get together in terms of picking a particular type of technology and starting to build to that technology, as opposed to everybody exercising their right to buy their own system, you know, at will.

Michael Chertoff

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As a kid, I wasn't allowed to have girl toys, but I would take my cousin's My Little Pony and smell it. That weird, synthetic, fruity-sweet smell - that's how I wanted to look. I wanted to look like this fabricated toy. I wanted to look like you could pull a string on my back, and I would say, like, six catchphrases.

Trixie Mattel

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It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone who understands that wealth creation is a good thing and they want more of it. Wealth is good.

Michele Bachmann

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It's a great view from here. I'm having the time of my life.

Michael P. Anderson

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If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.

Jay Inslee

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The really good doctors out there are real-life heroes. Playing one on TV is a cheaper alternative and certainly satisfies what is left of my medical ambitions.

Jason O'Mara

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Nothing goes full-circle with music.

Deadmau5

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I don't like to analyze what I do too much, but I certainly never meet a single person and say, 'You're the next character.' People think that's what I do. They also think that I sit down and observe and try to imitate random people. I've never done that at all.

Chris Lilley

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