Patrick Ness Quotes
Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.
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I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.
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One of the things you realize with a lot of high achievers: You have to figure out a way to make things their idea.
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Anyone should be able to read comics.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.
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I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
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Humanity evolves when we realise that animals have the same rights to the Earth as we do.
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Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave.
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I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.
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I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
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I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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Tell me, Connie, is your mother still dead?
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Some men are one thing on the surface and another underneath. The true poet shows not just the exterior of his subject, but all the contradictions within, and lets the reader draw his own conclusions.
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Switching from one career to another can be scary, but it also can be a thrilling experience. Look at it as an opportunity to really go after what you want to accomplish in life and make a difference in the world. The key is to take small, conscious steps and prepare yourself for a successful transition.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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Early college high schools in North Carolina and across the country show us that challenge - not remediation - is an approach to education that works.
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Nobody has to tell nobody nothing,” I say, taking another step forward. “You never were a poet, were you, Todd?” he says.
