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 think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and get a ticket then or go and see it then. It's especially with the play, which I can do because it's a limited run.
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I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along.
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My first walk illegally at 20 years old was between the towers of Notre Dame.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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The world doesn't see a lot of gray. The world sees black and white, and then it understands.
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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.
