James Patterson Quotes
I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.

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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.
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Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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It's a special place, and I believe in the prominence of America, and having America be and continue to be an exceptional place, and making no apologies for America being a superpower.
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I was the hallway clown in high school.
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Early childhood education begins early, even before birth.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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I have friends who are Caucasian who have pitched ideas for a Chinese-American show, and there is great resistance in Hollywood and the networks to support that.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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My grandmother had many children. She lost most. So when we came along, we were really special. I was the first grandchild that could see her spirit moving to a new generation.
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The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.
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I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.