Patrick Ness Quotes
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That was a huge part of my training, doing improv in Chicago.
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When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
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The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
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Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.
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I'm fearless, to a degree.
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
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Music has always been really important to me.
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I've never been a fan of pretense or procrastination. After all, our state is defined by its independent, outspoken spirit.
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For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.
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Once you get rid of integrity the rest is a piece of cake.
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I hate musicals. There, I said it.
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Men in the mass never brook the destructive discussion of their fundamental beliefs, and that impatience is naturally most evident in those societies in which men in the mass are most influential. Democracy and free speech are not facets of one gem; democracy and free speech are eternal enemies.
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What man would not be a dancer if he could, said the judge. It’s a great thing, the dance.
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I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.
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I am used to moving homes in football, and it seems to be a recurring theme in my career.
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Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live by their own religious precepts.
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It took me at least all my 20s and some of my 30s to get the confidence to realise I could just write about what I wanted to write about without having to pass a test or look super clever.
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Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities... the expression of love... then life itself loses its meaning.
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It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot.
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There are certain things women are better at than men.
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For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth-after having lived all my life in a sort of lie.
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I worked at a hospital parking cars and getting folks in and out of the hospital as they would come in for their appointments.
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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
