Patrick Ness Quotes
The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they’re the very thing that saves us.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've wanted to set a time that nobody can touch for many years.
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I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.
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The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
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Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell.
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Waiting to be hired, as an actor, especially, is soul-destroying... There is always something you can do... Create something, a play reading... Anything. But don't rely on other people to come to you. Put yourself out there.
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I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. People who do not want writers to write about violence want to stop them writing about us and our time. It would be immoral not to write about violence.
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The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.
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The green things of this world are just wondrous, aren’t they?” his mother went on. “We work so hard to get rid of them when sometimes they’re the very thing that saves us.
