James Patterson Quotes
I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.
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Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it's greedy or loving.
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I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.
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You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.
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While trade agreements are negotiated in secrecy, behind-closed doors, we have learned enough from leaks to know that the result of passing TPA to 'fast track' these trade agreements would affect everything from food safety to environmental protection to consumer financial protections.
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'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score.
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Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.
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Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and having six kids in the family.
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It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing.
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I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.