Patrick Ness Quotes
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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Guys like me don't necessarily progress very far, which is fine.
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Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'.
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'People who should be shot: Fascist thugs, religious fundamentalists, people who write lists telling you who should be shot. '
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Essentially, wines are fermented grape juice, so I'm trying to make the point that the wine world is about scores and marketing and kind of creating a scarce resource where they don't really exist.
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Some men look great unshaven; others just look like they forgot to shave. Beards and mustaches can be really distinctive if you go for an earthy, rock-and-roll look like the Kings of Leon or the Killers.
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I think the more open-minded people we have - like casting directors and producers - the better things are going to be.
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Being a leader is making the people you love hate you a little more each day.
