Patrick Ness Quotes
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The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.
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Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.
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I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.
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My personal style reflects my music. My music and how I dress is just how I express myself; it's just me. My music is urban pop, and my style of dressing is urban but still girly. I like that combination. The contrast is very nice.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
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I work all the time. I never leave home. I mean, I just stay honed in on what's ahead.
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I enjoy Saturday night racing.
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.
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I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.
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As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
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I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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Never argue with a profit.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other. Throw it in the garbage and it springs up clean. Try to root it out and it only flourishes. Love is a weed, a dandelion that you poison from your heart. The taproots wait. The seeds blow off, ticklish, into a part of the yard you didn't spray. And one day, though you worked, though you prodded out each spiky leaf, you lift your eyes and dozens of fat golden faces bob in the grass.
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My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest.
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You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.