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I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

All-Around Around Article Book
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There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.

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I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

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Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?

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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.

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I really fall in love with my characters, even the bad ones. I love getting together with them. They tell me what to do; they take me on a wild and wonderful trip.

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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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As much as my kids keep me young, they also have the reverse effect when I don't have the energy.

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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.

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I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

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It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

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I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with.

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There are no tricks to balancing work and family. It is a struggle all the time, and you just do your best. I think men are much better at compartmentalising.

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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.

All-Around Anyone Anyone Else Around
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Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.

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Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

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I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

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All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.

Become Behind Books Finding
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

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If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

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As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.

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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

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Women in their 40s have gone through quite a few different things, and so the roles are going to reflect that. People say, 'Oh, it's done by 40,' and now everyone knows it's not. I actually feel like the roles are a lot more interesting.

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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.

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This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

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Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

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People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.

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Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

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I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.

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I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, 'You're Gaga'.

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I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

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If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.

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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

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I've been actually really very pleased to see how much awareness was raised around bullying, and how deeply it affects everyone. You know, you don't have to be the loser kid in high school to be bullied. Bullying and being picked on comes in so many different forms

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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

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In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

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In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.

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All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.
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