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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I am big into aromatherapy.
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Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.
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Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
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I need to be in front of my obstacle. I like to have a back dialogue; I like to talk with people; I like to share ideas.
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I had to learn the hard way some really important life lessons. There was really no one there to say, don't do this or don't do that.
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You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.
