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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One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
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You know, I used to live in Russia where you had officers in the military opening up the warehouses at night and taking weapons out and putting them into a truck and selling them to foreign powers. That type of stuff doesn't happen in the United States. We still have a very functioning and relatively civil society.
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You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.
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Too many moralists begin with a dislike of reality.
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There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.
