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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Ambition, in a private man is a vice, is in a prince the virtue.
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My mother was a businesswoman; my grandmother was a businesswoman - it never occurred to me that life might be harder because you're a woman. It wasn't until later and I had a bigger sense of the world that I realised that.
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I knew that good people who wanted to be a part of the American dream have become trapped in dependency because the federal government and the state government had made it in their economic interest not to take a job because the benefits that they didn't work were better. I changed that.
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Already, it is later than you think for your earthly life at best, is only a blink of an eye between two eternities.
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In TV films, it's nice to get out of town for six weeks or two months, whatever it is, do your thing, and you're out, ready for the next assignment.
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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.
