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the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.
Sidney Sheldon
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Sidney Sheldon
Age: 89 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 11
Died: 2007
Died: January 30
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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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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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Coleridge wrote, Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.
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To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.
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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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The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
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Writing novels is the most exciting
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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 think that's because believable action is based on authenticity, and accuracy is very important to me. I always spend time researching my novels, exploring the customs and attitudes of the county I'm using for their setting.
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He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.
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Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.
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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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...but ready or not,life goes on.
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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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I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it
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I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.
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Nothing lasts forever
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She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show.
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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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I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.
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