James Patterson Quotes
People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.
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It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.
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I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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I've grown to love L.A. It was a really touchy transition. It was not the easiest. It took me some years to love it.
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We know from Talmadge Hayer, one of the men who carried out the assassination, who was shot by Ruben X as he tried to flee the Audubon after shooting Malcolm X, we know that Hayer confessed years later to his Imam in prison that there had been a walk-through a week prior to February 21st [1965] at the Audubon Ballroom.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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The TV schedule is essentially four or five days to get in touch with the story you're doing that week.
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When you're younger, you think you're in competition with everyone. You think everyone's success is a threat to you, and this is a thing you grow out of. You get older and you suddenly realize the only person you're in competition with is yourself.
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People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.
