Patrick Ness Quotes
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To be is to do.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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I would say our sound is soul pop.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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I wanted to be a professional baseball player.
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I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
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I've done literally 100, 150 different characters.
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I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.
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I actually started to think a lot about the difference between a creative gesture and a noncreative gesture. I decided that all gestures were creative. Because you always have to make a decision at some point.
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It is in quiet that our best ideas occur to us. Don't make the mistake of believing that by a frantic kind of dashing around you are being your most effective and efficient self. Don't assume that you are wasting time when you take time out for thought.
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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions.
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Republicans define freedom as an absence of restraints imposed by government. Democrats define freedom as an absence of necessity, which government exists to reduce. America has not moved as far as it thinks it has beyond the argument about the New Deal, when FDR insisted, "Necessitous men are not free men."
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.
