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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.
Sidney Sheldon
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Sidney Sheldon
Age: 89 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 11
Died: 2007
Died: January 30
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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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He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.
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you are my sun, and if the sun went out, the shadow would die.
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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 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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Coleridge wrote, Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.
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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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I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.
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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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To be successfull you need friends and to be very successfull you need enemies.
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Nothing lasts forever
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