Jackie Collins Quotes
Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
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Indians invest more in Britain than in the rest of European Union combined. It is not because they want to save on interpretation costs, but because they find an environment that is welcoming and familiar.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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We could have gone with much bigger labels and more money, but we wanted to go with a company that is LA based, all in the same building, and really understands what the artists want.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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People love to be told what they know already.
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I've found that musical theater is my passion.
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You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions.
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I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
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There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
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Know or listen to those who know.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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I've got a lot of other things I want to do.
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I don't want to privatise part of the parliament, like some people in Russia.
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I don't know if women are meant to run, especially after having kids.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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Hype is wonderful when it happens, and you should capitalize on it. But you shouldn't bank on it being the thing that will take you to the next step. Because it's fleeting. The blah-blah-blah goes away, but you're still there.
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Children who are accustomed to being treated well internalize that treatment and have a permanent sense of well-being. But children whose every need is instantly gratified and who are constantly praised to the skies do not have the same sense of well-being; rather they may feel despair or rage when that gratification is withheld, or when everyone doesn't glorify them in the same way.
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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.
