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If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.
Sidney Sheldon
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Sidney Sheldon
Age: 89 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 11
Died: 2007
Died: January 30
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I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?
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Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.
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Coleridge wrote, Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.
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It's bEtter tO hAte me 4 whO i Am,thAn tO lUv 4 wAt i'm pretNdng tO bE.
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Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
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I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power - their femininity, because men can't do without it.
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I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.
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There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.
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I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.
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Do you always throw your money away like this? Only when I'm in love.
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You have two choices. you can keep running and hiding and blaming the world for your problems, or you can stand up for yourself and decide to be somebody important.
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Nothing lasts forever
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When they die, no one will ever know that they lived on this earth.
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you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.
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Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.
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I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.
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When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.
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If. A two-letter word for futility.
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the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.
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