Patrick Ness Quotes
I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.
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I like computers as a tool. I like them as an instrument. I think they're just pretty.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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I act on my principles, whether they're popular or not.
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I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
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The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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Black glutinous rice works in both savoury and sweet dishes. It's a popular pudding rice in south-east Asia, where you'll often come across it cooked with water, coconut milk and a pandan leaf.
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I think legally we have to do 'fun' with a period. I think we agreed because apparently there was another band called 'fun.' We Google-searched, which now makes sense because we're so impossible to Google-search.
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I play tons of authority figures, whether it's the dad or the cop or the boss. I think it's a combination of how I look, who I am.
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I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.
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When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a women's movement. Working-class women were slow to get into it.
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I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
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As we continue advancing and leveraging GIS and as we keep bringing in new generations of technology as well as new generations of people, my sense is we're going to achieve extraordinary things.
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To wash dishes is not the same as a guy running a numerically-controlled machine. That guy running a numerically-controlled machine is going to get a higher level of pay because his training is higher, and he should get a higher level of pay.
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To be successful, you don't have to have all this crazy start-up capital or a ton of knowledge. I think it's actually helpful sometimes to not know all the rules because that way it's easier to break them.
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I think the reason teenage fiction is so popular with adults is that adults hunger for narrative just as badly as teenagers do.
