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Patrick deWitt Quotes

After 'The Sisters Brothers,' I tried to write a contemporary story dealing with an investment adviser in New York City who moves to Paris. I did all this research, but after about a year and any number of pages written, I was bored stiff.

Patrick deWitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: 1975

Topics

New York City Research Story Year

I was my thinnest when doing 35 fashion shows a week in different countries because I didn't have time to eat. I've never bought the idea that models in fashion magazines cause readers to have anorexia and bulimia. And you can't be a model if you've got those conditions anyway, because you'll get acne and hair all over your body.

Jerry Hall

Time Hair Fashion Doing You Body

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

Robert M. Hutchins

Criticism Trade Must Only Schools

I'm not one who can get by on six hours sleep night after night. You can see it on my face and hear it in my voice. When working 14-hour days, I have to go home, go to sleep, and wake up in time for crew call. I hate naps. They throw me off the rest of the day.

Anna Kendrick

Home Time Hate Day Sleep Me

I am a firm believer that you can have the body you want, only to the extent that you're willing to work for it.

Amber Heard

Work I Am You Body Want Willing

No special writing rituals. And my desk is usually cluttered.

Stephen Greenblatt

Writing Desk Special Rituals

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

Solon

Best Death Man Happy Call Fortunate

I've been making bronze sculptures for a long time. My sculptures are wholly unsuccessful and uncommercial. No one is even the remotest bit interested in them. So it's almost like my hobby.

Tracey Emin

Time Hobby Long Long Time Been Even

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

Janice Dickinson

Birds Where Books Self-Help Groups

You can tell within a second of entering a bar if it's a place you should spend your time.

Jon Taffer

Time You Place Bar Within Tell

I'm trying to go over my lines. I woke up on the floor, somebody had me in their arms. I didn't quite know who, people looked so unfamiliar. That's about all I remember.

Dick York

People Me Remember Trying Go Know

I was never a liberal. I was radical. I was cynical. I was negative. But, I was never a liberal. I always saw that as too lukewarm for me.

Clarence Thomas

Me Negative Never Always Cynical

We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent.

Bob Livingston

World Rest Pictures Know Try Saw