Patrick deWitt Quotes

A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?

Patrick deWitt

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LifeGoodWaitMy LifeYouWhy

I was shadow health secretary for six years, and the beauty of being in opposition - if there is any beauty - is that you tend to get a pretty unvarnished view because no one bothers to paint the coal white before you turn up.

Andrew Lansley

BeautyHealthShadowViewYouWhite

I don't have them down here asking me what my urban agenda is. I don't find them really doing in-depth stories on community-based organizations that have been struggling for a long time and who are out trying to get funds. They aren't interested in those stories.

Maxine Waters

TimeMeDoingTryingLongDown

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.

Matthew Modine

ScienceArtSpaceGoldDirection

I guess as you get older you sort of see the mechanics, even with the best comedians. There's admiration for people I admire, but it's not guttural laughter. It's a wry 'Oh, well done, sir.' But I sort of miss that slightly; I miss the raw joy of comedy I used to get.

Stephen Merchant

BestJoyLaughterPeopleWell Done

I am mentally strong, but physically I'm constantly unwell. I internalise a lot of things, and if something stresses me or disturbs me, I don't talk about it and make myself sick with it.

Sonam Kapoor

MyselfI AmMeSickStrongTalk

Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

Mary Elizabeth Lease

HellBetterStopBeginCornKansas

We (actors) don't really change the world. We reflect it... but Washington really changes the world.

Martin Sheen

ChangeChange The WorldWorldChanges

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Ludwig van Beethoven

LifeMusicSpiritualSensualBetween

I am dying, but the state remains.

Louis XIV

I AmDyingStateRemainsAm

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

Joni Mitchell

GoodEyesMomentSongProblemYou

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

Denise Richards

StoryThreeSidesTwoAlwaysFour

One phrase I would dearly like to consign to the can is 'Out of the Box.' The thinking that told us we should invade Iraq and that house prices never decline may have been out of the box, but it put us into the ditch. We have been badly misled by people who persuaded us that they understood things we didn't.

Tina Brown

PeopleThinkingHouseNeverBoxOut

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