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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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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I think the world is crumbling when I have a bad game.
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'The Red' is the first book in a trilogy that gained a big following as a self-published e-book, and is now out in paper from Saga. It introduces us to reluctant hero Shelley, a former anti-war activist who chooses to join the military rather than serve jail time after being arrested at a protest.
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I think most people gain some sense of how to look at a painting, but no one ever teaches you how to look at a piece of silver.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one.
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When I first heard of it, I thought it was a horror film. 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' is such a strange name. I wasn't into the comic books at all.
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The more you read, the better you get at it.