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Patrick Ness Quotes

I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: October 17, 1971

Topics

Writing Because Teenagers Like

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.

Writing Book Country Nobody Know

I'm not a Buddhist, or a card-carrying member of any religion.

Religion Member Any Buddhist

There was just something about me she did not like.

Me She Something Just Like Did

Stunt performing is a highly structured career path - you have to gain qualifications in six different sports to a high standard. It takes four or five years and costs at least £20,000; a black belt in a martial art from scratch costs a fortune.

Sports Path Art Black You Career

Studies indicate that most of young adults struggle to grasp even the most basic financial principles that will allow them to manage money and prepare for their future.

Future Money Struggle Financial Will

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

Miguel de Cervantes

Comfort Miserable Only Partners Woes

Working as a correspondent for 'Business Week,' I felt that I was simply informing people, not empowering them. I saw a parallel problem in the world of education. In too many educational settings, teachers simply 'inform' or 'instruct' learners, rather than providing learners with opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves.

Mitchel Resnick

Education Business People World Week

I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.

Life Music Community Time College

It's no secret I like to dress a bit sexy and body-conscious, and as soon as I was pregnant, it was like it was inappropriate to dress the way that I dress. And that really annoyed me. It's a wrong message that dressing feminine and sexy and being a mother can't go together.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Mother Together Dress Me Sexy Wrong

Well, teachers have been profoundly demoralized in recent years and are often treated with contempt by politicians. There's a great deal of reckless rhetoric in Washington about the mediocrity of the teaching profession - and I don't find that to be true at all.

Great Mediocrity Be True Find True

I played against Kobe a lot when I was in high school during the summers, even in college, just being that guy in L.A. coming up. He always gave me advice here and there, and even the smallest things stuck with me. I watched every single thing that Kobe did, every game, every move. He made me a student of the game.

School College Me Game High School

Sometimes we let life guide us, and other times we take life by the horns. But one thing is for sure: no matter how organized we are, or how well we plan, we can always expect the unexpected.

Life Plan Unexpected Sometimes Take

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