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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Socialism cannot exist without a change in consciousness resulting in a new fraternal attitude toward humanity, both at an individual level, within the societies where socialism is being built or has been built, and on a world scale, with regard to all peoples suffering from imperialist oppression.
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Since nature has the most sustainable ecosystem and since ultimately agriculture comes out of nature, our standard for a sustainable world should be nature's own ecosystem.
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France and Britain have large culinary differences, but one thing they do share is a relatively low tolerance for modernist cooking.
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As they say, there are two rules in improv: Never say no, and never ask why. When another actor asks 'Why?' or says no to something you're suggesting, then it's very clear that they're putting the onus on you, because they're not comfortable with it themselves.
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The demands that a great man makes are on himself; those of a petty man are upon others.
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The more you read, the better you get at it.
