Patrick Ness Quotes
Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
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Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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I like doing my own stunts.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.
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When my daughter wanted a toy and I had to check the price of it before buying it - that was one of the worst feelings.
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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
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The king appeared... with his dogs and sycophants behind him.
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I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
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The best writing advice I ever got was "Keep moving forward, don't retreat into rewrites." The worst came from a book that said "Writing fiction is like telling lies," which just seems stupid to me.
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Yeruham's small. You walk five minutes, and you're in the desert.
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When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that.
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Ah, well, then you've never stood on a beach as the waves came crashing in, the water stretching out from you until it's beyond sight, moving and blue and alive and so much bigger than even the black beyond seems because the ocean hides what it contains.
