Patrick Ness Quotes
There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Whether you like it or not, the digital age has produced a new format for modern romance, and natural selection may be favoring the quick-thumbed quip peddler over the confident, ice-breaking alpha male.
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You have lost a child, a dear, dear child. I have lost the only earthly object of my affection.... I have now one request to make,... deny me not. Afford me the melancholy pleasure of seeing her body before internment.
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To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.
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After doing the first couple scenes and I got used to being in front of a few people it got easier and easier. In Chasing Amy, I wasn't nervous at all. And in Dogma, the same.
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People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success -- that's not what government is about, and that's not what I want.
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There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
