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When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.
Sidney Sheldon
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Sidney Sheldon
Age: 89 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 11
Died: 2007
Died: January 30
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The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.
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When they die, no one will ever know that they lived on this earth.
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I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.
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I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.
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We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.
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Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap 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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I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it
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If. A two-letter word for futility.
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Womens value has been under-recognized for far too long.
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I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.
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I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.
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