Patrick Ness Quotes
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I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.
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Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial backflip in half a second, accelerate at two Gs, and fly rotor blade to rotor blade in three-dimensional formations - and they do all this autonomously.
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To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.
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I will keep painting until I die.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.
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In the 30 years of my career, I have explored all possible mediums, except radio.
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.
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Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
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I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.
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I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.
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The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.
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If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?
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A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.
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It feels that way when I'm doing a play, absolutely. On film and television, it's more complicated than that I think, and when you start to add the business into the mix, and the industry into the mix, it doesn't maintain it's purity. That's something that's inevitable and unavoidable, but that's why I try to do plays as much as I possibly can.
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The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world ," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free.
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Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.
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I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.
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Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.
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But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.
