James Patterson Quotes
When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.
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Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.
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Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.
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You have to see if the batsman is coming out, if he is staying back, what his grip is like, to gauge his intentions. A common trend I have observed is, a lot of batsmen change their grips when they are looking to hit: normally they either go high or slide their hand to the bottom of the handle to get maximum power.
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I don't persuade to suicide.
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You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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The metaphor I've used is... somebody's going to push my family off a cliff pretty soon, and I won't be there to catch them. And that breaks my heart. But I have some time to sew some nets to cushion the fall. So, I can curl up in a ball and cry, or I can get to work on the nets.
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Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
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The western mindset erroneously equates a political system of multi-party democracy with high-quality institutions... the two are not synonymous.
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What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.
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I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.
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I wasn't trying to fit into a thing... it was not like I was like, 'Right, I'm the Han; I'm the Leia; I'm the Luke.' I was just like, 'Okay, I'm Rey, just trying to do me, just trying to do this scene, trying to do the right thing,' and I think that was a huge advantage because I think if not, it would've been a very different thing.
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New-season lamb shoulder, cooked pink, is the perfect platform for a mixture of fresh and cooked herbs.
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Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thinking!
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So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.
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I enjoy being on CNBC's 'Fast Money,' in part so that audiences can watch a woman who is as well informed about, and invested in, the market as her male counterparts.
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I'll always be a foreigner.
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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
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My basics are black, white, or neutral, and I'll wear a ton of jewelry or carry a brightly colored bag.
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Some people are very good at that, communicating with the world; I'm not sure I'm suited to it.
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My parents were distrustful of the outside world. They didn't think much good came out of it... The outside world was this strange place that was not so much dangerous as not as interesting as what went on in the house.
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There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.
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The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception.
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Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.
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When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.
