Patrick Ness Quotes
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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I don't believe in these headline-hunting interviews. That's just not my style.
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The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
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You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
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If I take enough pictures, I'm going to get a good one, and I know not to stop at a bad one.
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A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.
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God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.
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Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.
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...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables.
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Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.
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The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede.
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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
