Patrick Ness Quotes
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I have no contracts with my clients; just a handshake is enough.
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When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
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There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.
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In a country where women regard themselves as equal, they are not prepared to see men running the show themselves.
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If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win.
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I go running three times a week - outside in the park, come rain or shine, and I hate every moment of it. I hate everything about it. But I know it's important for health reasons and the reason why I run, in particular, is because my stage work is like cardiovascular work so I don't want to lose my breath on stage.
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The reality is the world is a really, really big place, and there's a lot of people running around with a lot on their mind. And you really have to figure out how to build a company that can put on a message that can actually reach people and have an impact globally.
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For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.
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Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.
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I'm not interested in being Don Quixote. I'm interested in running the City of New York.
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Enough is enough. Enough of the waste. Enough of the spending. Enough of the debt. Enough of the arrogance in Washington, D.C.
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The minute you finish a piece of writing it doesn't belong to you, you don't write it any more, it belongs to you, the reader, the listener, the audience. So the less you know about whether or not this is me talking about my life or this is me talking about your life, I think the better. Then it can belong to you and it can live outside of the moment in which it was conceived.
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I love the start of autumn when the trees in my garden change the colour of their leaves in one last dazzling display.
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Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
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My dad plays guitar in the church band, so it's like music as a service. He plays at old-people homes, so that's like music as a gift.
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Captain Hammer is obviously the most fun to write because he is not so bright. And 'not so bright' is comedy gold. Not to mention 'kind of a...' Captain Hammer's high school was named after him. While he was still attending.
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Too much talking," I say. "Not enough running.
