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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'The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for - for what? Someday we'll know.'
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Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes, with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our battlefield. It is there, that we experience our victories and defeats.
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No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.
