Sidney Sheldon Quotes
Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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Nothing surprises me on 'Happy Endings,' because the show - I think one of the awesome things about the show is that it's so open to doing anything. We could do a genre episode. We have the green light to do whatever we want. Mostly because no one's watching.
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For a while, he was far better than the team around him, and he could give me fits..
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Apart from logical cogency, there is to me something a little odd about the ethical valuations of those who think that an omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent Deity, after preparing the ground by many millions of years of lifeless nebulae, would consider Himself adequately rewarded by the final emergence of Hitler and Stalin and the H-bomb.
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
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Ginger: Oh, jeez. Well, uh... maybe you should talk to someone.Cynthia: I thought I was.
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Predicting the market is always tough.
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You must know in your heart before anyone else does what is going to be good and then follow through.
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I want to re-establish the people's trust in the office of president.
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All the roles are for boys. The girls' roles are either small or all the same. There's just nothing interesting.
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Messi deserves to win this World Cup for all he has done for football.
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Paper is at the center of so many of the elements of the development of civilization.
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I've never had any problem with criticism. I've given a lot, and I've copped a lot. But I believe I've got a role to play by insisting that women be judged by their contribution - not somebody's view of what they should be about.
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I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.
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I'm enjoying the work while I get it right now.
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I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.
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Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.
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Or perhaps - the secret of life is to choose your risks?
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.
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Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.
