Patrick Ness Quotes
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I hope that we can continue this cooperation on other critical issues related to America's future technological competitiveness. We must work together to encourage the creative talents that have made our country the world leader in technology.
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Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.
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I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
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The primary way that we know about what lives in the ocean is we go out and drag nets behind ships. And I defy you to name any other branch of science that still depends on hundreds-of-year-old technology. The other primary way is we go down with submersibles and remote- operated vehicles. I've made hundreds of dives in submersibles.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.
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How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.
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I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
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I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.
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I'm not a role model. I say parents should parent and monitor their kids.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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Obviously he deserved that Finals MVP award. He is a great talent and he is a huge reason why we are celebrating.
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We played a lot of sandlot ball, so we were used to tackling each other, or falling on the concrete, things of that nature. And nine times out of 10, our flag games turned into tackle anyway. So when I got to high school, tackle football was kind of natural.
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Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lions' den or hanging on a wooden Cross. Faith is not inferred from the happy way things work. It is an act of will, a choice, based on the unbreakable Word of a God who cannot lie, and who showed us what love and obedience and sacrifice mean, in the person of Jesus Christ.
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There's not too many one-producer rap albums. There are lot of one-producer rock albums... and country albums.
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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
