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Patrick deWitt Quotes

My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: 1975

Topics

Me Book Upset First Up Because

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

People More Just Like Other Except

The original version of 'The White Mountains' was probably just about worth publishing.

John Christopher

Mountains Worth White Original Just

Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, with a drum. They're all conversating, and we're just trying to find a way to make conversation rather than blah, blah, blah. But it's not really so hard a thing to do if you know the way to approach it.

Music Trying You Conversation Find

I think of masculine and feminine energy like two sides to a battery. There's a plus side and a minus side, and in order to make something turn on, you need to have opposites touching. It's the same in relationships.

Energy Think You Relationships Need

Teaching is too strong a word for whatever it was I did at Northeastern University.

Robert B. Parker

Strong Whatever University Teaching

The kinds of shows that seem to work now, the comedy shows, are those which require very little attention. They're superficial and I like articulate comedy.

Mary Tyler Moore

Work Comedy Attention Now Little

Now, DVD can represent more income than the box office-and typically does.

Michael Nesmith

Now More Box Income Represent Than

I've always been more in touch with my Ecuadorian side. I speak Spanish.

Speak Touch More Always Side Been

When I'm working, I need to be pretty disciplined, but I do like to enjoy my food. I like to keep it fresh and wholesome. Preparing your own food can be a great way to unwind.

Great Food Enjoy Way Need Fresh

The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor.

Small Bible Hands Go Poor Vine

I've been lucky enough to do theatre, film, and television for a career. Unless I get offered a job as an astronaut, I won't stray too far from it.

Dexter Fletcher

Job Theatre Enough Career Television

Unfortunately, diet is 75 or 80 percent of trying to get in shape, so you do have to try to cut the carbs. The diet's a huge part! I'm from Kansas, so I love ranch dressing and McDonald's. When I'm working, I have to stay away from all that!

Love Diet Trying You McDonald Try

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