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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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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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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All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
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But history tells us that true progress is only possible where governments exist to serve their people, and not the other way around.
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The world is ever new to me; like an old friend loved through this and former lives, the acquaintance between us is both long and deep.
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We get older and more sophisticated and a bit cleverer, but certainly boys - and men - are as childish and basic as we ever were.
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I was the only guy to knock him down when he was champion of the world, Sonny Liston was the biggest puncher I ever fought, but all around, the most skilled fighter, it was Muhammad Ali by far. It was an honor to fight the guy, and to this day I'm very proud of myself for what I accomplished in that fight.
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If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.
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Pain leaves a mark, the degree depending on the person and the event.
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I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point.
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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.
