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I think L.A.'s terrific. You fly an hour and a half and you're in the mountains in three feet of powder. I also think it's a much better city if you're working as an actor. If you're not working and you don't see your dreams coming true, there can be a lot of heartache.


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BOB PATTERSON [From this experience] the students have become more interested in life science, and now have an int...
BOB PATTERSON That would make it impossible for us.
BOB PATTERSON It was a cross between a screwball and a change-up. It was a screw-up.
BOB PATTERSON I hope the Knights beat us to those players, from a Kiwi perspective, but we are going to be putting...
BOB PATTERSON He owes us one year of back taxes right now and one year of current taxes,
BOB PATTERSON Our debt-to-revenue ratio is very good. Our bonds are backed by our sales tax.
BOB PATTERSON We need to figure out if we want vending in Athens, are we trying to encourage it, or do we want to ...
CAROL PATTERSON We want to get rid of the (licensed) vendors that buy the spot only for Halloween weekend.
CAROL PATTERSON We said to the community, 'Look, we're drowning. We need your help. You need to be more judicious in...
CAROL PATTERSON We were just out of resources, ... There are only so many hours in the day.
CAROL PATTERSON The parking garage is just a big bugaboo of mine.
CAROL PATTERSON The goal is to have the facility paying for itself as far as operating costs, and it's looking more ...
CAROL PATTERSON The specific chore that we're undertaking at the moment is taking the routes of the existing systems...
CAROL PATTERSON In the wee small hours, the neighborhood got pretty bad last year.
CAROL PATTERSON The impervious cover question somehow brings out the challenge to our water quality authority.
CAROL PATTERSON The city of Athens is eligible for, and certainly utilizes, state and federal transit funding. The u...
CAROL PATTERSON You're a brave, brave girl, Tula" Gaby told her.
"I know", said the little girl. "I got it from...
JAMES PATTERSON I’m not comfortable in this stadium,” I explained, trying to look calm.
“I know. And you ...
JAMES PATTERSON One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's no...
JAMES PATTERSON Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from differ...
JAMES PATTERSON It was a pretty complete list. The kind of list one makes when one cannot fall asleep because one's ...
JAMES PATTERSON I didn't feel so bad,
CARLY PATTERSON It's so weird, ... Last summer, it seemed I'd never get to the Olympics. Life is going by faster now...
CARLY PATTERSON Every time I come to a meet, it makes me want to get out there, ... Today, watching the juniors, I w...
CARLY PATTERSON Athens was a great experience and I'll always be able to look back on it and say I achieved my ultim...
CARLY PATTERSON I'm working with producers right now as I haven't finished my demos yet. Hopefully we can have somet...
CARLY PATTERSON I don't want to say anything bad about someone but it was a little bit hard,
CARLY PATTERSON I'll always remember; it was the best day of my life.
CARLY PATTERSON They shouldn't have to worry about toothaches or their teeth hurting. There are more things to worry...
CARLY PATTERSON Since I came here, I've been lost, ... I am not asking for a handout, I just need some help. And tha...
CARLY PATTERSON When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned dow...
JAMES PATTERSON Man, you weigh a freaking ton," he told me. "What've you been eating, rocks?"
"Why, is your he...
JAMES PATTERSON Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?
JAMES PATTERSON It cuts through the middle person, ... and it might make a connection between the purchaser and arti...
JAMES PATTERSON A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes...
JAMES PATTERSON It's a stall tactic coming out of hostile politics in Washington.
DANIEL PATTERSON