Patrick Ness Quotes
How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
Quotes to Explore
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Rameswaram has, since antiquity, been an important pilgrimage destination.
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I love to watch 'Chopped,' 'Jeopardy,' and 'Breaking Bad.' You can't pass up that one. Oh! One other show I love to watch is 'Suburgatory.'
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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'Make You Miss Me' is an important song to me. Having it go No. 1 as the fifth single off of my first record is the cherry on top of a chapter in my life I'll never forget.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
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I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.
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But it is important to observe that when Europe or the United Nations impose sanctions that are supposed to be aimed against a certain regime, usually generally millions of people end up being directly punished.
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What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
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Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
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I just think that is so important to keep a strong support system, to keep yourself encouraged.
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It's actually very important to put a little foundation up into your hairline, or else it looks like your face is not yours - like someone just Photoshopped it on!
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Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
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When a city says, 'If you're illegal, come here, we're not going to prosecute you,' the federal law should supersede the local mayor's edict.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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Being a dad is like - there's nothing more important. So the exploration of that in stories, with parents and fathers and brothers, siblings, I just think that you're always in the terrain of love, whether it's absence of love or the giving of love or the desire for love.
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I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.
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My mother taught me the principles of hard work, setting my own goals and visualizing my future. From my early days with Destiny's Child, I understood I had to be focused and dedicated if I wanted true success. We were taught we needed a plan and the discipline to execute that plan to the fullest. I strongly believe if you work hard, whatever you want, it will come to you. I know that's easier said than done but keep trying.
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I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
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Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
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How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
