Patrick Ness Quotes
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A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.
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What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.
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Anti-frackers are disingenuous. They bow to the religion of environmentalism.
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Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.
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We also thought of ourselves in racial and largely ethnic terms.
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In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
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'The Quiet Ones' was my first film, let alone my first horror film, and I had so much fun. I had such a laugh, every single day. I look like such a feral child in it.
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Whenever a liberal begins a statement with 'I don't know which is more frightening,' you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.
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In many ways, when you're a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.
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The funny thing about commercials to me is that many of them now don't even mention the product until the very end. You don't really know what the commercial is all about. They're kind of like little movies, like shorts, and that's why I think they're so entertaining.
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Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to share it.
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'True Blood' fans are very friendly, so everybody's been very friendly and positive.
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We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.
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Dementia is often regarded as an embarrassing condition that should be hushed up and not spoken about. But I feel passionately that more needs to be done to raise awareness, which is why I became an ambassador for the Alzheimer's Society.
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I've never sat down and tried to write something for some occasion. You just write the tune and stay totally wide open to everything. It'll find the person or persons who are supposed to do it.
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If you have the capacity to love, you have the capacity to love anyone.
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My second husband, Eric Villency, is the father of my beautiful boy Ronan Anthony. Even though we're divorced, I'm still very close with his family.
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When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.
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Start with a premise and then somehow invert it.
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Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.
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The joint development and cross-licensing agreement ... let's us avoid quibbling about technical details and move forward quickly.
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Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.
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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
