James Patterson quote: "I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right after high school when I got a job in a mental hospital. I was working my way through college, and I did a lot of night shifts, and there was nothing to do. So I read like crazy, serious stuff, all the classics."

I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I gues...
MEGHAN TRAINOR

Aye, well, I've got my garden.
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I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
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On the interception, I was out of bounds,
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casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
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I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
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I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
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I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
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I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
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I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
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You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
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I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
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Married to the Mob.
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Hello you're with Drudge.
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I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
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throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
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I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
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I was the best guy, you know, all through Little League and Pop Warner and that kind of stuff. But w...
PETE CARROLL

I've been thinking of humorous things since I was... I can't remember when. All the way thro...
STEVEN WRIGHT

I'm ashamed to admit this, but I didn't read a novel all the way through until after high sc...
MATT DE LA PENA

When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn'...
FAITH FORD

I read books for exams at school, but only because I had to read them, and really didn't enjoy i...
RACHEL TUCKER

I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well un...
LAUREN TARSHIS

I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN

I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that...
CHAD SMITH

Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the chil...
KATE DICAMILLO

I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bi...
LIAM NEESON

I didn't have any terrible survival jobs. The main job I had before I was able to transition ove...
NICK KROLL

I guess I never grew up. I was still reading kids' books in high school and college. I was alway...
MICHAEL PATRICK HEARN

I did most of my volunteer work when I was in college because I knew of more ways to get involved. I...
CARRIE UNDERWOOD

I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't kno...
NANCY MEYERS

I went to a Presbyterian college, you know, I was in... all the way, and so I remember doing my firs...
WOODY HARRELSON

I was crazy for music as a high school kid and a college kid.
ALEXANDRA PATSAVAS

I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they ...
DOMINIC MONAGHAN

I was a wild kid in high school. I liked to get crazy and be rebellious and go to parties and do all...
ERIC CLOSE

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 ye...
TERRY PRATCHETT

Before playing football, I didn't fit in anywhere. My parents didn't have a lot of money, wh...
RYAN COOGLER

I didn't like school. I was pretty much daydreaming all the time. I would be in the back of the ...
CHARLIE MCDERMOTT

In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft dr...
JEFF KINNEY

I don't think most people understand that when I wasn't running for president, I was working...
RICK SANTORUM

I was a jock in college and high school, but I didn't hang out with the jocks. I was sort of a n...
ADAM RAPP

I shaved my head when I was 14 - is that bad? I asked my dad's permission first. He said, 'Y...
BREA GRANT

I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right ...
GEORGE LUCAS

I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right a...
JAMES PATTERSON

I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read childr...
JAMES HOWE

When I was in high school, I wasn't a troublemaker. I didn't get in fights. I was a good stu...
THOMAS MCDONELL

When I was in high school, I read all of Neil Simon's plays.
DARIUS RUCKER

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to re...
JUNOT DIAZ

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept g...
R. A. SALVATORE

After high school, I went to VCU and got a B.F.A. in theater. I got to do a bunch of stuff professio...
ZACHARY KNIGHTON

I was a pretty delinquent little kid. My folks and I didn't get along, so I basically moved out....
AL JOURGENSEN

Keep in my mind my dad didn't become a huge, huge mega actor until I was halfway through high sc...
COLIN HANKS

I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON

It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of cr...
EDDIE VAN HALEN

I didn't take theater or anything. We didn't have a very good theater program. It was in wes...
OLESYA RULIN

I ran through most of college and ran through most of grad school. When I was writing my dissertatio...
JANE MCGONIGAL

In grade school I was smart, but I didn't have any friends. In high school, I quit being smart a...
DAVID SPADE

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

I used to write in school a lot; I always liked it and used to write on my own, comic books, come up...
RYAN COOGLER

I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. ...
RACHEL BROSNAHAN

When I was in school, my mother stressed education. I am so glad she did. I graduated from Yale Coll...
ANGELA BASSETT

I started singing in my church choir, and then when I got to middle school, I had the coolest musica...
SHANICE WILLIAMS

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 yea...
STANLEY KUBRICK

I started piano when I was four. My mom taught me. And then I went to Manhattan School of Music duri...
CHARLIE PUTH

When I was 17 or 18 I wanted to become a wine expert, and my parents wouldn't let me drink. So I...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read chil...
HENNING MANKELL

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