James Patterson Quotes
I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.
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Body experience... is the centre of creation.
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Make that extra effort for every relationship. Whether it's with your parents, your children, your husband or your friends. It makes a difference to them. I try to give my kids a lot of solo time where I play with them, talk to them, listen to them. Similarly, you give time for your workout. You slot a time for it, no matter what.
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
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People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
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Improvisation is terribly haphazard.
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The comedians who I admire that are really good, they always take it to a deep psychological place.
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That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.
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Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.
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In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.
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I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.
