Patrick Ness Quotes
You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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The wind is a very difficult sound to get. It's always changing.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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I think that we've got a huge head start on things that are not easy to do: progressive streaming, to be able to stream in very high quality, even in an environment of highly variable bit rate, and to work on a big variety of devices seamlessly.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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I'm blessed. I have a 13-year-old girl's eye and a 14 year-old boy's eye. I've been given the gift of sight by people who decided to donate organs. I try to do as much organ-donor work as I can.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
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I have said consistently both in my papers and in my speeches - which you heard in the primary campaign - that I will continue to phase out the Capital Stock and Franchise tax.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I don't watch television. I'm not a TV guy.
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Was I going to start companies outside of Shutterstock or inside? Going public kind of meant I was going to start them inside, and I kind of thought this through and decided that if I was going to do that, I was going to continue to operate Shutterstock like it was an incubator of startups.
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In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
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But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
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Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy,
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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
