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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The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.
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You never mean a single word you say.
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Never, ever get on an American Airlines flight. They will make you wait four hours, and then, when you complain about it, you will be kicked off your flight, and they will rob you of your money.
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It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.
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You're never more alive than in battle." "Never more dead after," I say.
