Jackie Collins Quotes
I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.
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Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.
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I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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I've only dressed in drag three or four times.
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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I have a great office.
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I don't even know which end of a computer one is supposed to gaze into. I've never used a computer.
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Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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I'd probably describe my sense of humor as 'twisted,' I guess. It's not hard to make me laugh, especially when I'm surrounded by my close friends, especially my bandmates.
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It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
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I've seen numerous situations where collectors have taken more than the agreed-upon amount from someone's account once they gained access.
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You are in front of your brother, but your mind is on many other things, so you don’t really see your brother. Maybe he is having some trouble, but you don’t see it, not even when you share the same room. But mindfulness brings you there, to the present, and then you see. Train yourself all day long to bring your mind to your body and to be present with your food, your friends, your work, everything, because the more you concentrate, the deeper you will see.
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There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing.
