Patrick Ness Quotes
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
Karen Elson -
It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
Barry Mann -
I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
Natsuo Kirino -
I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
Zach Galifianakis -
When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
Dani Shapiro -
I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
Paddy Ashdown -
I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
Daniel Alarcon -
You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
Zinedine Zidane -
A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
Ouida -
The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.
Orison Swett Marden
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
Rabindranath Tagore -
Everyone needs help when they try something new.
Zoe Sugg -
Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
Harriet Tubman -
Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
Gary Ackerman -
I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
Dan Kaminsky -
Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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To me, my recipes are priceless.
Colonel Sanders -
The American people were really not 100% convinced that this idea of default was really going to occur, and I think the media, current company excepted here, did not help in that regard because they confused the American people about what default actually meant.
Bill Johnson -
I didn't have any desire to be an actor until right before I did it.
Jamie Sives -
I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
Olivia Munn -
Kids always act up the most before they go to sleep.
Chris Rock -
Time goes on, even when yer not looking.
Patrick Ness