James Patterson Quotes

Generally I find that kids ask better questions than you get with adults. Something that kids will do a lot is, they're so nervous, and they're not really paying attention, so they'll ask the same question someone just asked. And you're trying to be nice and not embarrass them any more than they are already.

James Patterson

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• While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Art
  • True
  • Reality

• I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Best
  • Never
  • Afraid

• 'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Guy

• Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Couple
  • Find

• I would love the opportunity to create my own program. I feel like a TV show with a format of monologue with lots of sketches thrown in could be really fun. But you know, that may never happen. Minimally, I just want to keep making stand-up.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • Up
  • Love
  • May

• After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • War
  • Government

• The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Peace
  • Sorry
  • Been

• The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Work
  • Think
  • Way

• When people recognise me they just kind of go 'Hi how are you,' really kind of cool you know.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • People
  • Me
  • Cool

• When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • College
  • Football
  • Watch

• I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize their gestures, and then they stick to it. Those that are technically proficient enough can make it seem natural, but they do that and don't really take in what other people are doing.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Know
  • Doing

• Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • World
  • Country
  • Want

• I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Live
  • True
  • Win

• I drink a gallon of water a day.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Day
  • Water
  • Drink

• Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.

  

  Jack Germond
  • People
  • Time
  • Bible

• He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Guy
  • Effort
  • Silly

• All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • May
  • Dream

• Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.

  

  Xenophon
  • May
  • House
  • Man

• Are men truly such idiots that they cannot resist two orbs of flesh?

  

  Robin LaFevers
  • Men
  • Two
  • Flesh

• What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • World
  • Trying
  • Literature

• There's no question that you can explore aspects of yourself through roles that you play, and you get a chance to investigate yourself; that's healthy, and it's therapeutic in a way. But if you're indulging yourself, exploration at the cost of the story or the project, that's not good.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Good
  • Question
  • Explore

• But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?

  

  Joichi Ito
  • Words
  • Question

• I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world.

  

  William Hague
  • World
  • Trying
  • Problem

• Generally I find that kids ask better questions than you get with adults. Something that kids will do a lot is, they're so nervous, and they're not really paying attention, so they'll ask the same question someone just asked. And you're trying to be nice and not embarrass them any more than they are already.

  

  James Patterson
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Attention