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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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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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I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.
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I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.
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What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.
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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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My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.
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If you don't know why,I could never explain it to you.
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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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When they die, no one will ever know that they lived on this earth.
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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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He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.
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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.
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...but ready or not,life goes on.
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I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.
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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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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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To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.
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