Penny Jordan Quotes
What I like writing about are people's relationships, not necessarily great big dramatic things but the smaller things in life and how they affect characters and challenge and change the people that they are. I do like a happy ending, so my books have to have a happy ending.
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It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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Let us advance science to create a better world for all.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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There are a lot of historical novelists who do the research about the clothes and maybe even the eating utensils, but they're basically taking modern people and putting them in old drag - it's sort of the 'Gone With the Wind' approach.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it.
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I try to use other songs or bands as reference points - it seems like the easiest way to get across what are really differences of taste or opinion. If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.
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Moses, who said to the children of Israel, Wear your galoshes; I never did this trick before. Never got a dinner!
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I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.
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The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you.
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What I like writing about are people's relationships, not necessarily great big dramatic things but the smaller things in life and how they affect characters and challenge and change the people that they are. I do like a happy ending, so my books have to have a happy ending.
