Patrick Ness Quotes
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.
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Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
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Those who live are those who fight.
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He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
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I love getting after that quarterback! That's my deal: sacking the quarterback.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
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Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.
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I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.
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What I'm looking for is the variety of choices and the opportunity to work with great directors - that's what I'm looking for.
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I was also supposed to quiz my various companions on a number of important matters such as nostalgia, fear of unknown animals, food fantasies, nocturnal emissions, hobbies, choice of radio program, changes in out look and so forth.
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There's a part of me that feels like it gets really frustrating to keep working in the manner that I made the book 'Shortcomings,' where everything is pretty accurate to the real world.
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We are the choices we make.
