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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In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.
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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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Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark The echo of everything that has ever Been spoken Still spinning its one syllable Between the earth and silence.
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It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.
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Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.
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Obviously, death is ahead of me. I don't look forward to dying one little bit. But, you know, I simply don't worry about it because it's going to happen to me as it does to anybody.
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Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.
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Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.
