Patrick Ness Quotes
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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I still have a lot of my friends from high school. You just know who is there for you for real, and who is trying to get something out of you.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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The biggest ambition in my career is still to win the European Cup. I want to have a picture of that to look at later; I want to have that medal. You can have a contract that is better than your friends, but no player looks back and says: 'I won more money.'
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I like fighters who come to fight.
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All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
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I'm a jeans person; I love Abercrombie. My shoe collection is composed mostly of Chucks and a few pairs of girly ones.
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I actually think I play better now than I've ever played.
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America's not just [about] looking out for yourself, it's not just about greed, it's not just about trying to climb to the very top and keep everybody else down. ... Hard work, that's a value. Looking out for one another, that's a value. The idea that we're all in it together and [that] I'm my brother's keeper and [my] sister's keeper, that's a value.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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There's so much wonder in the world. Don't let no one tell you otherwise.
