Jackie Collins Quotes
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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China, frankly, can be an opportunity for Africa based on the huge infrastructure deficit on the continent, but what needs to happen is that governments and citizens have to build internal ownership of the need of good governance, transparency, accountability, for respect for the environment.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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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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My mother is a beautiful writer. Writing letters back and forth with her was an athletic endeavor, and it became something I really looked forward to.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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Midi is my hobby.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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We encounter very healthy boardroom debates and pretty diverse views, so we have always had the benefit of diversity of opinion and expression before we take some important calls.
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Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings.
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Life will not make allowance for you, but it will pay you what you earn.
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If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have this king to look up to - the royals are like celebrities.
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I feel like, in a lot of ways, 'Hidden Figures' is the book that I wrote and have been waiting to read since I learned to read.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
