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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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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In my first publication I might have claimed that I had come to the conclusion, as a result of serious study of the literature and deep thought, that valuable antibacterial substances were made by moulds and that I set out to investigate the problem. That would have been untrue and I preferred to tell the truth that penicillin started as a chance observation. My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist. My publication in 1929 was the starting-point of the work of others who developed penicillin especially in the chemical field.
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It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that's great.
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This is how we are protecting you, by getting you out.
