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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If we think that we can somehow gain control of the US government, bring it under popular, enlightened progressive control, preserve a habitable climate, and rein in the dangers of nuclear and other warfare, then we should. However, if we think it's more likely that California can achieve those goals by secession, then we should go down that path. There's no question. It's an absolute moral imperative.
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I always felt that if I did the right thing, that if I trained hard and worked hard, I'd be rewarded somehow.
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The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
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I go shopping maybe three times a year in an intense way. I'm like a man. Can't spend too much time in a shop.
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But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.
