Patrick Ness Quotes
Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.
Quotes to Explore
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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After the bones mended, my left eye was smaller than my right, and my eyebrow never grew back. But you know what? Big deal. I think I became beautiful after the accident. I became kinder, more aware. I gained respect for other people.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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I love anything to do with history.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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I do not like violence.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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Samsung has drastically altered the rule that big screens mean huge phones. Even this smaller of the new Galaxy S models has a larger screen than the biggest iPhone, but it's much narrower and easier to hold and to slip into a pocket.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I didn't expect anything crazy to happen from 'True Detective.'
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Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.
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I am many people. Technique is always the consequence of the dominating concept.. ..with the change of concept, technique will change.
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The agency is who it is because of many, many, many chapters that needed to happen.
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Everyone reads the same words in a book but has a very clear picture of their own.
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Happiness is precious, and so I prefer to keep mine private. In a world where everyone shares everything, I can think of a lot of happy moments, but they're mine.
