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People always come up to me and say, 'you should do standup.' It's nice to discover things about yourself. That keeps everything lively and fun.

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James Patterson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 22
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James Brendan Patterson
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Max, if you survive your final test, can you steal me one of those magic outfits for me? I'll try to get one for each of us. Hey! 'If'?
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I'm gonna barf, I whispered to Fang,wiping my sweaty hands on my jeans. You'll be fine, he whipered back. You always are. I'm gonna die, I moaned. You can't die, he said a hint of a smile in his voice.You're the indesructible Max.
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But then we have to leave, have to. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way, Jane. That's just.. how it works
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Oh no! Don't drag us away from Antartica and take us to the playground of the rich and famous! Not that briar patch! -Max
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I don't think of myself as a writer.
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I have an idea. It’s risky, and Max will kill us when she finds out.” Iggy raised his head. “Sounds like my kind of idea.
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Hey. Not sure what’s going on-gonna go find out. Be careful and don’t do anything stupid. Don’t come after me-your better on your own. See you. F I sat on the edge of the bed, holding the note. Okay, so Fang had looked up vague in the dictionary and this was what it had said to write.
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What are you guys doing? If you anted me to take a shower, all you had to do was pay me ten bucks, like you usually do
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Nowhere will you meet more interesting people than in books.
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There are terrific models for success with reluctant readers, but many school systems and state governments need to set aside their 'not invented here' and 'we have more important problems than education' attitudes.
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It was a pretty complete list. The kind of list one makes when one cannot fall asleep because one's thoughts keep swirling through one's brain like a bunch of sparrows on crack.
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What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.
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A friend of mine once defined love as finding someone you can talk to late into the night
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One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's not a passive entertainment. People really do get involved, and they do create, and they do have their own visions of what different characters look like and what should happen. It's great - it means their brains are working.
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You stand out like a fart in a church.
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Sometimes when you're at your most certain, that's when everything you know is wrong.
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