Patrick Ness Quotes
If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.
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You're only as good as your last song. That's something somebody told me, and it's so true. You've just gotta keep putting yourself out there, even promoting 'God Made Girls.'
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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
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I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.
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The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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I'm terrified of therapy because I don't want it to mess with my creativity.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
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One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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When you leave, you basically want to go eat, because I talk a lot about food in my act. So when you leave, you leave hungry.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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I don't really want to make this sound depressing, but I will say that I didn't really have my first kiss until really, really late.
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'Alias' was very action-packed. 'G.I. Joe' and 'Conan' were very action-packed. It's been established that I can do action, which is great, but now I may just want to make out with a really hot guy.
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An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
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As someone who's been covering presidential campaigns since the 1950s, I have no delusions about political reporting. Candidates bargaining access to get the kind of news coverage they want is nothing new.
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I just want to be known for what I do, not who I know.
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You approach faith with humility. You can have some idea, but it boils down to do you see religion as a club, or do you see religion as a path? Do you see it as a wall that separates you or do you see it as a bridge that connects you to God and other people? When you see it as a bridge, you aren't so worried about bringing others over to your side.
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When I'm on family road trips, there is always Ranchera playing.
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To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.
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If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.
