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Patrick deWitt Quotes

Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.

Patrick deWitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: 1975

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Work Writing Thought Know Say More

While it can be overwhelming to realize how many problems there are to solve in the world, it's always inspiring to see so many talented people willing to spend their time and energy in hopes of making a difference.

Joe Lonsdale

Time People World Energy Problems

Why is there no respect for Joaquin Andujar?

Joaquin Andujar

Respect Why No Respect

I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!

Joaquin Phoenix

Life Home Feel Trying Say Changes

I took a class in college... I think we were reading some short Chekhov plays, and I knew the first day of the class that I was going to be an actor. It was just the bizarrest thing, but it just felt like home.

Jeffrey Wright

Home Day College Reading Think

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

Robert Graves

Good Women Girl Men Deserve Despair

In a career, when you hit 40 and you've done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to the other.

Jean-Marc Vallee

New Things Feel You Career New Done

Does Scripture forbid homosexual behavior? Of course it does. Jesus and his apostles taught that God's intention in marriage is for a man to leave his parents and join himself to one woman.

Michael Horton

Marriage God Woman Man Parents Join

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

Jean Paul

Love Friend Character Mirror Learn

By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country.

Ron Lewis

Future Energy Country Build Oil Gas

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

Rumi

Love Valentine's Day Looking Blind

All the food we eat, whether Brussels sprouts or pork bellies, has been modified by mankind. Genetic engineering is only one particularly powerful way to do what we have been doing for eleven thousand years.

Michael Specter

Food Engineering Doing Powerful Way

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

Jonathan Sacks

Future Storm Government Uncertainty