James Patterson Quotes
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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I taught Sandra Bullock when no one knew who she was. I talked her out of quitting. I put her in a showcase.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a good drummer. I always try to play but it's always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books You will be reading meanings.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.
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Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.
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If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
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After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, 'Never Say Never Again' and 'RoboCop 2,' and then I got too old.
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You'd be hard pressed to find a bigger champion of high-speed rail than me when the bond went to voters. I believed in it.
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I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!
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One can easily realize God if one is free from guile. Spiritual instruction produces quick results in a guileless heart. Such a heart is like well cultivated land from which all the stones have been removed. No sooner is the seed sown than it germinates. The fruit also appears quickly.
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Growing up my dad was like 'Zach, you have a great last name: Galifianakis... Galifianakis... Begins with a 'gal', ends with a 'kiss''... I'm like 'That's great, Dad. Can we get it changed to 'Galifiana-fuck' please?'
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When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.
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Partial answers on the questions: 'And what did you mean when you said you would come back? Would you lobby Congress? Maybe explore the political arena again?'
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Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.
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Motherhood definitely took the focus off of my work. And I didn't mind. I had a few panics when I thought that if I wanted to work I couldn't get a job anymore and then I would get one once in a while and it would make me feel better.
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I love to tell stories. It's a delight for me.
