Patrick Ness Quotes
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Bitcoin is here to stay. There would be a hacker uproar to anyone who attempted to take credit for the patent of cryptocurrency. And I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of hacker fury.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Good food is a celebration of life, and it seems absurd to me that in celebrating life we should take life. That is why I don't eat flesh. I see no need for killing.
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If I existed 200 years ago, all the other farmers in my community would be like, 'That guy is worthless! He's sitting on a rock, jumping up like a frog, coming up with weird concepts and ideas, making faces, and combing his hair into a giant pastry.' It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.
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There are all sorts of ways you can take somebody's identity or change your own, and a million things you can do with it once you have. It's quite incredible.
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Put on your yarmulkahHere comes HannukahSo much funnukahTo celebrate Hannukah
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I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.
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...and changing for the better doesn't mean that he's ever going to reach good...
