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Patrick deWitt Quotes

I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting to the authors, agents, publishers, booksellers, critics, and readers that keep the world community of fiction interesting.

Patrick deWitt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: 1975

Topics

Community Death World Reading Keep

There are a lot of actors out there who don't have an arena to present their stuff.

Joe Penny

Present Out Who Stuff Lot Arena

As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into.

Jhene Aiko

Life Learning Poetry Got Just Older

I'm not a Little Englander. Historically, British people have always been travellers. I look in the world as one place. You have to think in a global sense. Cinema is a global endeavour. My roots are in England but my endeavours are worldwide.

Jeremy Thomas

People Roots World Think You Look

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

John Locke

Character Color Moral Take Us Like

If you look in the dictionary under 'perfectionist,' you see Henry Selick correcting the definition of perfectionist in the dictionary. I mean, he is so meticulous.

John Hodgman

You Look Mean See Dictionary He

I actually have a peculiar feminism that does not involve the idea that women shouldn't be sexy. Female characters written in comics have always been pretty damned sexy, and used their sexuality. And I don't have any problem with that.

Ann Nocenti

Women Sexy Problem Always Feminism

Whenever anyone asks me if I'm from a TV show, I say yes - no matter whether I've ever been on it. It just makes the conversation that much easier.

Michael Ian Black

Me Conversation Say Matter Yes Been

It doesn't help to fight crime to put people in prison who are innocent.

Stephen Breyer

Fight People Prison Help Innocent

But I'd say that probably 70 percent of the bunkering is more to give you an idea of the direction that you want to go or to save your ball from going into worse places.

Tom Kite

Direction You Go Say Want Places

I know a lot about the Battle of the Bulge, and a lot about World War II from 'Saving Private Ryan.'

Tom Sizemore

War World Battle Know World War II

I think it's an important thing, if you grew up in a neighbourhood that's different from the rest of the world, to remember what was different about your place and keep that in your heart, because that's what made you.

Lukas Forchhammer

Heart World Rest Think Remember You

The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.

Lucy Powell

Women Politics Gender Party Done