Patrick Ness Quotes
Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.Patrick Ness
Quotes to Explore
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
Olivier Martinez -
I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
Eberhard Weber -
We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
Tamron Hall -
I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
Umberto Eco -
At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
Walter Kirn -
Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
Patrick Lencioni
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
Nadia Comaneci -
I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
Zayn Malik One Direction -
If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
Jack Whitehall -
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln -
Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
Vanna Bonta -
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
Oscar Hijuelos
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
Pamela Hansford Johnson -
There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
Kabir Bedi -
Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
Sally Mann -
I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
Kat Edmonson -
Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
Wang Jianlin -
It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
Gary Hamel
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation between the too comes in. At least if you must put books on one side and life on the other, each is a poor and bloodless thing; but my theory is that they mix indistinguishable.
Virginia Woolf -
I love California. I love Hollywood.
Dwight Henry -
It would be great to be recognised for my achievements, but Sports Personality isn't about that.
Victoria Pendleton -
The nature of fashion is family.
Alber Elbaz -
I don't really want to be in the business of observing conversations.
Brian Acton -
Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.
Patrick Ness