Patrick Ness Quotes
And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most.
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
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I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great options for keeping it moisturized.
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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In Silicon Valley, if you spend a lot of time thinking about the obstacles, you'll talk yourself out of everything, because the more you look at it, the less logical something sounds, since no one has done it yet.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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To be a writer you have to be out in the world, you have to risk yourself in the world, you have to be immersed in the world, you have to go out looking for it. This becomes harder as you get older because there's less energy, the days are shorter for older people and it's not so easy to go out and immerse oneself in the world outside.
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That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
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We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.
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Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.
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Giving oneself permission to write to begin with is the first enormous challenge. But you discover that this permission involves a requirement: To write about things that are difficult because they are, in fact, your subject.
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I will always come back to do Australian films. I think it matters. I think we can make films that people go and see. And I don't think it's too much to ask that films in this country make a profit and that we embrace them.
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And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most.
