Patrick Ness Quotes
Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.
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I think it's like, you know, you can't get ahead of yourself, because no amount of success or exposure or opportunity is going to really matter or be ultimately fulfilling unless you can be totally present in what you're doing right now.
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Kids get a lot of lip service in disaster planning, but they tend to get far fewer resources than they need. The mantra of 'children are our most valuable resource' is almost never matched by actual funding.
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Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
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My mum was a dancer. She would tour the world with a group, and she had me in a dance class when I was still in a nappy. They told her to come back when I could walk.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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Advertising is the life of trade.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.
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They're all focusing on how John Roberts is going to decide Roe v. Wade. That isn't even the right question. I don't even know of a case in the (court) system that addresses it.
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There's still time for redemption if I live long enough, don't you think?
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Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool.
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Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.
