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I wrote because I needed to and wanted to. It never occurred to me that I'd become famous.

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Danielle Steel
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: August 14
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schülein-Steel
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel
Wrote
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Literature
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Never settle for less than your dreams, somewhere, sometime, someday, somehow, you'll find them
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I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children they'll always tell me the truth.
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Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through.
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I've rarely met a shoe I didn't like.
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.. As far as they're conserned, I've been kind of a poor second best all my life, or I don't qualify at all compared to my brother. It's rough being around them and feeling like you never measure up. Collin
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I'm one of them. The weirdos and the freaks. My point was that it's ok to be different, and from now on we'd better be, if we're going to make something of ourselves. It's the one thing I learned in school. Different is ok. -Victoria
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Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.
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...there were no guarantees in life, only promises and whispers.
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What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?
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I used to think when I had children that somebody else had the rule book and they hadn't given it to me, and everybody else knew how to do it right except me. I find the same thing in writing: you think that everybody knows what they're doing and that you don't.
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Not everyone is meant to stay forever.
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I'm astonished by my success.
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Love is quite violent. It is so painful at times, so devastating. And there is nothing worse or better. We find the highs and lows equally unbearable. But then again, the absence of them is more so.
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