Danielle Steel Quotes
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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I'm more than willing to go to places and talk to people who believe that I am an illegal alien who deserves to be jailed. I want to look them in the eye and say, 'What makes you think I'm any different from you?' I think for our generation, immigration rights is a civil rights issue.
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Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.
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I sort of take cues from my grandparents.
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I started playing piano; I picked up a ukulele, and I loved it and kept playing that. I play a bit of guitar, and some African drums from back in the day.
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People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or something, when my writing really comes out of silence. If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.
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I want to be Miss Universe when I grow up.
