Jackie Collins Quotes
People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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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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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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'Dhruva' will have them glued to their seats throughout, and I'm sure of that.
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Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.
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When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.
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I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.
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What I know is the characters in a Southern town. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. And I know the neighborhoods, and I hopefully know the people, and I feel a connection to them. And I also feel like I'm honoring them when I talk about them.
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People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!
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I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.
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People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
