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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Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
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I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.
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I play the guitar. This year at the Sundance film festival, I joined the band from 'The Guitar' on stage. We warmed up for Patti Smith, and then the director Michel Gondry got on the drums to play some songs from the soundtrack to his film Be Kind Rewind with Mos Def. It was pretty mad.
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When I was growing up, I never heard the word 'racism.' It was only in Paris I encountered that.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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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.
