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Patrick Ness Quotes

Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Love Great Horse I Can Go Boy

There are autobiographical elements to the albums, and when I write, I always reference my own life as well as other things, so I'm just like any novelist or any fiction writer who tells stories.

Life My Own Write Always Own Things

F. Lee Bailey had been an inspiration to me. It was my desire to have him behind the scenes, to rely on his great wisdom and his brainpower, but I did not feel he should be in the courtroom.

Wisdom Great Me Feel Desire Him

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

Football Small Better Boy Than Died

My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Style Personality Fire American Way

I think what I do is borderline art. Most people who do borderline art have to have other jobs, so I'm very grateful.

Art Grateful People Think Who Most

One thing that's always helped quell my writerly anxieties is seeking out interviews with writers I admire.

Admire Always Out One Thing Seeking

We're living in an age where we should be collaborating. Because it's the Internet now. It's hard to say who owns what.

Age Internet Now Say Living Hard

I'll squeeze the cider out of your adam's apple.

Apple Out Squeeze Your Cider Adam

Be more conscious about what you say about foreign policy issues, because they are complicated.

Michael T. Flynn

You Complicated Say More Policy

My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to shearing shed. My mother always wanted us to be educated, so I went to a school.

Father Mother School Sheep Go Up

I'm like this ghost - you look around, and all you see is the artist. But if you look at the credits, it's still Poo Bear.

You Artist Look Bear See Ghost

The fact that I have done films down South didn't boost or hamper my chances here. In fact, I was still shooting for both my Telugu films when I met Ashu sir for 'Mohenjo Daro.' During the audition, he gave me five scenes with lengthy dialogues. Once I cleared them, he gave me a song to dance to. So, my Bollywood entry was no cakewalk.

Dance Me Song Down Done Shooting

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