James Patterson Quotes
Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I've pretty much adopted that.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
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I don't think I ever worked harder at any match during my career to get runs as I did then, nor did I ever have to face in one game such consistently fast bowlers as the Australian pair, Gregory and McDonald.
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If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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I have a real problem giving up that kind of control. You know, my mother helps me.
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Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago no matter what some folks say. You can see it not just in statistics, you see it in the attitudes of young Americans across the political spectrum. But we're not where we need to be. And all of us have more work to do.
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Somebody said the key to life is to work hard, play hard, rest hard, and I've pretty much adopted that.
