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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Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted.
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The best thing about running is that you can eat a lot and still feel OK.
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They say that love and tears are learned without any master; and I may say that there is no great need of studying at the court to learn envy and revenge.
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I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.
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I have several close friends who have run marathons, a word that is actually derived from two Swahili words: mara, which means 'to die a horrible death', and thon, which means 'for a stupid T-shirt.' Look it up.
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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.
