Patrick Ness Quotes
Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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I was taught to play that way when I was in high school and even before I got to high school.
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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My grandfather started a school for the underprivileged in Chandigarh, and that is why we moved from Himachal to Chandigarh. It was a small school, where even I would teach while in school.
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While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.
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We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.
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I played the trumpet for nine years, and then I joined the choir after that, and then I was in musicals in high school.
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I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
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My freshman year at Harrison High School, I saw a journalism class where students were putting out a weekly newspaper. It touched a responsive chord in me.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.
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We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the book or it was something that we made up on our own, but I auditioned to play the black hole, which somehow makes sense to me.
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I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.
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I think if I was 5-foot-3, I would have been really popular and dated a lot more in high school. I didn't develop like the pretty girl.
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My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped out of graduate school and just went to work for an insurance company. But the house was full of books and music and all of that.
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At the end of the week, my husband and I do a leftovers dinner, where we have to use whatever's in the fridge. It's sort of a game.
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Look, if America - if being an American means anything, it means not having to lie under oath, not even for the president.
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I try not to have the computer in the bedroom. I used to sleep with it, though. I used to wake up spooning my laptop.
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Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.
