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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What we need are lots of girls who aren't as good as us, who'll treat us with the proper respect and reverance.
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Marco Rubio is interesting because he checks so many boxes when you think about what a Republican nominee needs. He brings Florida, he's young, he's Hispanic, the Tea Party likes him. But that said, he's got issues, actually surprisingly, ironically, with Mexican-American voters.
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As a rule, with me an unfinished [idea] is a thing that might as well be rubbed out. It's better, if there's something good in it that I might make use of elsewhere, to leave it at the back of my mind than on paper in a drawer. If I leave it in a drawer it remains the same thing but if it's in the memory it becomes transformed into something else.
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You can't generalise, of course, but there is a school of American acting where there is a kind of pride in the number of takes you can do.
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He was a man too busy to flush toilets.
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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.
