Patrick Ness Quotes
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I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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When I finally finished the 'Two Suns' tour, which went on for quite a long time, I felt like a bit of a husk. And I remember thinking, 'I need to spend some time in one place, and just be at home.' So I guess the first year of that three and a half years was spent just trying to kind of get back to normal again.
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
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Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.
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Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
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I think family is our reason for being. I was lucky to be born into a very close-knit family.
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I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
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I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.
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Everywhere in my house are these little things that have meanings and make me think of great memories.
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
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I don't think 'Magadheera' should be remade, nor do I think it will be remade. It is very difficult to recreate the same magic.
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Paint goes a long way in making old look like new.
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Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't.
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Never let us confuse what is legal with what is right. Everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal, but it was not right.
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Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.
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I only met Margaret Thatcher twice. The thing that I thought about meeting her was how extraordinarily intelligent she was. You really had to be on your game; otherwise, she'd make mincemeat of you.
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Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.
