James Patterson Quotes
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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I did about a 100 concerts this year. All over the United States. We're cutting back next year to about 40. We generate money for an organization called Mercy Corps.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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I'd love to be a 'Bond' girl.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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Is it coding - or code breaking? Is it like Deborah’s job? Do be careful, Tommy, people go queer doing that and can’t sleep and walk about all night groaning and repeating 978345286 or something like that and finally have nervous breakdowns and go into homes.
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I went downtown to the courthouse pretty late at night, and arraignment court was on. You have these prosecutors and public defenders and judges and all of these people who are there on a Friday night at half past 12, and how can you expect people to bring their judgment and their best selves to their work at that kind of time?
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Hollywood is a peculiar beast - people in Hollywood are nuts.
