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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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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'It Girl' is supposed to be something that only lasts a certain amount of time. They keep calling me an 'It Girl,' and at this point it makes me laugh, because I've done that so many times: 'You're it;' 'You're not it.' What is 'it?'
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Anyone who reads my work will see that there are often difficult relationships between fathers and sons.
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I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid.
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You've got to have something in your life you don't sell to others.
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Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.
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But if it’s true that the only true life I had was the life of my brain, what sense does it make to hand that brain to somebody for eight hours a day for their particular use on the presumption that, at the end of the day, they will give it back in an unmutilated condition? Fat chance!
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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.
