Patrick Ness Quotes
That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no need to change my image. I like my image, and the audience likes it, too. I am very comfortable with the kind of roles I do, and as I am not doing the same character or playing myself. I explore my characters; I don't brood over my broody image.
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us - especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
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Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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Nobody's going to give you everything on a silver tray. It's going to be difficult.
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Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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I didn't really like my Sydney accent - nobody likes the sound of their own voice - and when I was a little younger tried to change my accent gradually. But I've only ever really lived in Sydney and Los Angeles, so I haven't been influenced by the accents of some far-off land.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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Learning from the experiences of our ancestors, let us together create knowledge for all that benefits all.
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Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.
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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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Place and displacement have always been central for me. A type of insecurity goes with that: you are always following the cues, like learning the dance steps when the dance is already under way.
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The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the world and its way of accepting life. Such an idiom makes the finest language any writer can have; and he can never get it with a notebook. He himself must be able to think and feel in that speech - it is a gift from heart to heart.
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That's the thing I'm learning about being thrown out on yer own. Nobody does nothing for you. If you don't change it, it don't get changed.
