Patrick Ness Quotes
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.
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However, while the Nazi barbarians and their collaborators threatened the entire world, I could not accept his philosophy and, after several earlier attempts, was finally accepted into the Canadian Infantry Corps during the last year of World War II.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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When I'd go to Israel, I felt like a tourist. My social and professional ties had started to dissolve, and it confused me. I didn't know whether I should stay here in Paris or go back to Israel, or even cut off all my ties with Israel so I could really plant roots here. Or maybe go somewhere else altogether.
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I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.
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My make-up artist, she uses bronzer on the eyelids too. And also a little bit on the forehead to make everything look even.
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The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.
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A kid copies what is good. I remember the first time I saw Lefty O'Doul, and he was as far away as those palms. And I saw the guy come to bat in batting practice. I was looking through a knothole, and I said, 'Geez, does that guy look good!' And it was Lefty O'Doul, one of the greatest hitters ever.
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I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.
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I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.
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I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.
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The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
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Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.
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You do not need 435 people playing commander-in-chief.
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Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days.
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I'm not a Rachel Dolezal. I don't fake tan; I don't have the cornrows, I don't misappropriate. I just want to be Beyonce.
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Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins.
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Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.
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Spiritual favors are not always to be looked for, and not always to be relied on.
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And it feels like, finally.
