James Patterson Quotes
I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.
Quotes to Explore
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I love people who break boundaries and always create something new and fresh.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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If there is one thing BP's 'watery improv act' made clear, it is that, as a culture, we have become far too willing to gamble with things that are precious and irreplaceable, and to do so without a back-up plan, without an exit strategy.
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Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.
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I was actually deputy headboy at my school. And everyone around me was very supportive of what I wanted to do. There's no romantic story about how me and my brother got to where we are.
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In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
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I try to leave things as open ended as possible, not too overladen with meaning.
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Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
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I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
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Sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is the one they would like to show to the world... Every so often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.
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It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.
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It's really empowering to have curly hair.
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There used to be that you only had four or five critics that you would look to for intelligent conversation, but now there are millions of people who can just press 'send,' and everyone's got an opinion even if no one cares what they say. It makes things a little bit tougher.
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I think once you have films in certain festivals you begin to have name recognition, and there are possibilities.
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I would like somebody confident who takes care of his business, is strong, healthy. Somebody that loves their family and treats their friends right - and treats me right.
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I still can't believe it. I don't want to believe it. It can't be so. He will live in my heart forever but it’s not enough. My life feels so empty. I don't think anyone knew how much we loved each other. The purest most giving love I've ever known.
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I have a folder in my office with about 400 ideas in it. So it will take me another 40 years to get through those.
