James Patterson Quotes
The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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Don't trust anyone over 30.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
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The coolest person to yourself is yourself, and we're like nerds, and we love to be smart, and that's okay.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
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I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
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Auto-tune is good to keep your notes intact, but it doesn't do much for the feel of your voice.
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I'm partial to epic poetry, which might be surprising given that I don't write poetry at all. The combination of rollicking storytelling with musical language seems to me the highest achievement.
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It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
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I have this philosophy that A and B students work for C students.
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The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.
