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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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
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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 got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music video where I'm throwing the crumpled paper on the bed, that was really true life. I was filling journals with different possibilities of lyrics for the first verse. And none of them felt right.
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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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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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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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Supervision is an opportunity to bring someone back to their own mind, to show them how good they can be.
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Year-end financial statements … express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable-yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating-than an evolutionary biologist’s proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.
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Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well.
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I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
