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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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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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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I have struggled all my life with my stuttering. Not to mention all my other speech impediments. I think I have every language disorder known to speech pathologists.
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We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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Dance is my passion.
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Discipline is doing what you really don't want to do so you can do what you really want to do.
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It was like a heart transplant. We tried to implant college in him but his head rejected it.
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I actually wanted to go to medical school. I actually wanted to be a laboratory biologist. I wanted to study. And I really wanted to find a cure for cancer. My grandmother had died of cancer. And I was always very good at the sciences. And I thought I would go and try and discover the cure for cancer.
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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so.
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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.
