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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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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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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I have an ego the size of a small planet, but I'm not _always_ right ....
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4) It is a sin to waste the reader's time.
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I just didn't see anyone on TV who looked like me, and then I saw George Takei being cool and piloting the spaceship on television.
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I'm a what?" gasped Harry. "A wizard, o' course," said Hagrid, sitting back down on the sofa, which groaned and sank even lower, "an' a thumpin' good'un I'd say, once yeh've been trained up a bit. With a mum an' dad like yours, what else would yeh be?
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A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.
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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.
