Patrick Ness Quotes
A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.
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How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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I want to have a long career.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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You can get by on four hours' sleep, but you're not very exciting.
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We're happy that we got this little stay of execution, so to speak. It'll give us some time to get all our ducks in a row, to take on whatever they throw at us in the future.
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..one must agree with Rilke when he says that with 'nothing can one touch a work of art so little as with critical words..' .It was Marcel Duchamps who was critical, when he drew a moustache on the 'Mona Lisa'. And so was Mondrian when he dreamed of the dissolution of painting, sculpture, and architecture into a transcendent ensemble.
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To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just the act of all good writing.
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Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.
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A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.
