Patrick Ness Quotes
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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In the governments, as we've witnessed in the past, they had to hide. Because there's a lot of concentration on the friends-and-family club... We're not about that. That's not the government of the future of the State of New York. What's gonna pull this state out of the doldrums that it's in right now is an honest and open government.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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It's super dope when you connect with something personally.
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I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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That always seemed to be the most critical test that a child was confronted with - loss of parents, loss of direction, loss of love. Can you live without a mother and a father?
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I want to work on cases that I feel the most passionate about.
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That's the most important thing for me is just figuring out how and if I'm growing as an artist.
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Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations.
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Music has got to be useful for survival, or we would have gotten rid of it years ago.
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We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.
