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James Patterson
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: March 22
Actor
Advertising Person
Author
Film Producer
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Television Producer
Newburgh
New York
James Brendan Patterson
James B. Patterson
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They turned to Angel. We will call you Little One, the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense with the whole confusing name thing. Okay, said Angel agreeably. I'll call you Guy in a White Lab Coat. He frowned. That can be his Indian name, I suggested.
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The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.
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You were designed to be very smart, Max, she told me. We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was developing. And yet I still can't program my DVD player, I said.
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Angel raised her hand. Excuse me. What does LTC stand for? She blinked innocently. Loving Tender Care?Gazzy suggested.If our instructor had had lasers for eyes, he would have sliced Gazzy in half. Lieutenant colonel, he sputtered.
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If you're in the room, I want to be next to you. If you're gone, I think about you. You're who I want to talk to. In a fight, I want you at my back. When we're together the sun is shining. When we're apart, everything is in shades of gray.
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Was this normalcy-predictable patterns, the certainty of doing the same thing everyday? Because if so, normalcy was about to make me freak out and start screaming.
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Gazzy, man, jeezum! Fang exclaimed. What the heck have you been eating for God's sake? That was a smoke bomb! Gazzy defended himself. Not even i could fill this whole flippin' house!
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Who, last time I'd checked, was still on our official archenemy list. (Yes, we have to keep a list. It's kind of sad.)
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I want to be a scientist who studies the ocean when I grow up. I would go out to sea, and scuba dive, and find new things, and National Geographic will hire me.” Sure, Nudge. Probably around the time I become president.
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Gazzy: Just Ten? Angel: No. Gazzy: Five? Angel: No.
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One of the interesting things about YA books - I don't know about Percy Jackson, but I do know about 'Twilight' and 'Maximum Ride': There are a lot of adult readers. In fact, we released 'Maximum Ride' both as a paperback for kids and as a mass release for adults.
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We try not to encourage demonstrations of his mastery of the gaseous arts.
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There's always be a me and you.
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I have a number of writers I work with regularly. I write an outline for a book. The outlines are very specific about what each scene is supposed to accomplish.
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Okay, okay, okay. I understood that pushing the elevator button over and over again would not make the elevator appear sooner. But I couldn't help myself
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I don't believe in lecturing people. It's much more effective to present reading as a fun, rewarding pastime.
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There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.
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Fang swerved closer to me, big and supremely graceful, like a black panther with wings. Oh, God. I'm so stupid. Forget I just said that. He needs a Band-Aid, I said. A look passed between me and Fang, full of suppressed humor, relief, understanding,love — Forget I said that too. I don't know what's wrong with me.
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Not saving you from this storm, mutant,” he said. “Saving you for your later fate, we are.” His voice was weirdly inflected and metallic, like an automated answering machine. “Oh, good. Yoda captured us,” Fang whispered.
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Just for fun I flew in huge banking arcs, taking deep breaths, enjoying the feel of my newly weightless hair. The stylist had called it “wind tossed.” If only she knew.
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