Patrick Ness Quotes
Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.
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The real war will never get in the books.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Ending Iran's nuclear threat and bringing it into the international community of law-abiding nations is one of the most pressing U.S. foreign policy objectives.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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Love, in the eyes of the world, is either a carnal appetite or a vague fancy, which possession extinguishes or absence destroys. That is why it is commonly said, with a strange abuse of words, that passion does not endure.
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I had always dreamed of winning Wimbledon and when it happened it was very stressful. It was more of a relief!
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Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.
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It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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They call, in fact, for the forfeiture, to a greater or less degree, of human liberty, to the point where, were I to attempt to sum up what socialism is, I would say that it was simply a new system of serfdom.
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I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.
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We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
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It's unlikely. It's too 'inside.' There would be about 100 people who would be thrilled, but we have to think of the bigger picture.
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.
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Flakes of white fall thru the trees and onto the road, catching on our clothes and hair. It's a silent fall and it's weird how it makes everything else seem quiet, too, like it's trying to tell you a secret, a terrible, terrible secret.
