Patrick Ness Quotes
In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
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That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.
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The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.
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I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.
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When I'm telling stories of my video game days, when I was a really hardcore MMO player, I played 'EverQuest' for two years and played 'World of Warcraft' and several other games for the last ten years or so... 95% of the stories I'll tell you are 'EverQuest.'
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It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.
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For Christmas 1999, my husband surprised me with a trip to Disney World. Along with our boys, we were standing on the roof of the Contemporary Hotel at midnight on New Year's Eve 2000 watching fireworks explode over every amusement park in Orlando. It was a magical way to celebrate the millennial, and a never-to-be-forgotten Christmas present.
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I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
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The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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There are no friends at cards or world politics.
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We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
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It's very hard to find perfection in your life. But in the art world you can do that.
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We all wake up, and I'm sure at some point during the day we all have very similar thoughts regardless of our circumstances and where we are in the world.
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I want my little corner of the world where I get to make games where you're not trying to win or lose; you're not trying to get a higher score - you are having unbelievable amounts of fun as you learn about yourself and the world. That's what games can do!
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When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.
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I do not follow the rules of fashion, and I don't like to be considered a man of the world of fashion. I like to call it the 'style industry' because we try to work on taste.
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World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go?
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The Boston Symphony is one of the best orchestras in the world and has such a great tradition - which I want to cherish, of course, and to learn from and to continue and to add whatever I can add.
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What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.
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Red candy is my favorite - I like red string licorice, Swedish Fish, and red gum balls.
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As you get older, you come to a place in life where you can't just live in the present.
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That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.
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In this world of numbness and information overload, the ability to feel, my boy, is a rare gift indeed.
