Patrick Ness Quotes
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.
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It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife.
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A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made... It has become kind of my signature thing.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.
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Prices are always lower when the troops are in the street.
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I would probably be a teacher if I weren't a comedian.
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Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.
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How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?
