Patrick Ness Quotes
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I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.
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It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.
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Because I'm a good girl, I tend to fall for the bad boy persona, and it ends up biting me in the butt. They end up not knowing how to treat me, and I end up completely devastated.
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The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.
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I don't get surprised very often to be honest. I'm the kind of person who you couldn't throw a surprise party for because I'd figure it out.
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You never know what an artist is going to create next.
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I was a late bloomer. I wasn't a child performer.
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I've had some great examples in my career of how to do things the right way.
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We inadvertently keep oppressing Africans when we label them by an approximated color - and even when we confuse a specific socio-cultural group such as the Afro-Americans with Africans.
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Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.
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I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'
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Awkward conversations are painful, but they're way easier than divorce, resentment, and heartbreak.
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Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
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I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.
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The people who were marching at Peggy O'Hara's funeral gave the impression they were associated with the INLA, which is supposed to be on ceasefire and to have decommissioned some of their weapons. I ask if they could have honoured her in a more dignified way.
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Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
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If you take away a rock from a pile of rocks you haven't changed much. It's still a heap of rocks - just a rock or two smaller. Take away a component from the mousetrap and it isn't a mousetrap any more.
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Whenever I'm in need of inspiration and mantras, I go straight to simple affirmations. 'I am strong', 'I am brave', 'I can do this' and 'I'm awesome'. Whatever you put after 'I am', you will become. 'I am' are the two most powerful words, so make sure what you say after 'I am' is what you want to experience. It's like a magic trick.
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Blessings star forth forever; but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.
