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 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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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
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As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as uniform a liquor as ye chaos was. If beer be poured into it & ye mixture let stand till it be dry, the surface of ye curdled substance will appear as rugged & mountanous as the Earth in any place.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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King Agis said, "The Lacedaemonians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are."
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I think the press mistakenly thought that all of these 'mumblecore' filmmakers were banded together in a similar ideology, but the truth is that we were all just using the same digital camera and helping each other make our movies because we were broke, and we were the only idiots willing to do it.
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Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence.
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You tell a man the truth about himself and, well, they find they have trouble accepting it.
