James Patterson Quotes
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As an African-American male born with a couple of strikes against you because of your skin color, I think it's very, very important to have some positive role models around, especially male influences.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.
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My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it!
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I was kind of lost for several years.
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I don't think about it. I have always been linked up with everybody.
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If my children were hungry I should think I would steal to feed them.
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I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.
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Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man...
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That is the danger of an idea, Jerzy. Once planted, you cannot control where the roots may go.
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While I was obsessed with my own misery, there were other things occurring in the human universe.
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We had affirmative action programs to help women help themselves economically. Is it now time for affirmative action programs to do for men’s feelings what the government did for women’s economics?
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There buds the promise of celestial worth.
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I have entered on an enterprise which is without precedent, and will have no imitator. I propose to show my fellows a man as nature made him, and this man shall be myself.
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From an unknown land and through distant skies came a winged warrior. Nothing remained sacred, no one is safe from the Hellion as it uttered it's battle cry... Screaming for vengeance.
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Obviously, when you finish something like 'White Collar,' there are so many opportunities to just do something similar because people want that kind of thing, and I really have tried to stretch myself out, for better or for worse. I hope that I'm able to get to continue to do that, as an artist, and I'm not the guy who shows up to be charming.
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But most of my songs were about believing in yourself, standing up for yourself and fighting for what you believe in.
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I find it really difficult when you make a movie where it is set in Russia and everyone speaks in English. It drives me crazy.
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There's a game called Checkout where there's grocery items and it's how much you think the manufacturer's suggested retail price is and we add up your total, then your total has to be within $2 of the regular total. I don't think I could ever win that game.
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I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone.
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The more you read, the better you get at it.
