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.
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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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I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.
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The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.
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My dad was a baggage handler at Heathrow and careful with money. He worked hard and had three jobs when I was young. I wish I'd inherited his care for money. Sadly, I've grown up to be rather scatty when it comes to finances.
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I should have been dead 50, 60 years ago. God just wasn't ready for me. Because I used to raise hell and drink. I've had my fun!
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Actually Roosevelt was identifying with Euripides—like himself, an upper-class celebrant of middle-class virtues.
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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.
