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On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.

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I don't believe that you can be too short as a quarterback. It's not about height.

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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

About Anything Bizarre Characters
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The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.

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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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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.

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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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When I had dark hair I definitely felt that I was more anonymous.
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You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.

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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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We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

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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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Each day, you get an ounce more confidence. When we're playing like we are, there's no reason not to.

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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 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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I wish I'd started having kids sooner so I could have had a few more.
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

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

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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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The use of violence in movies is a subject that's worth addressing. I'm not standing on a soapbox or wagging a finger, but I'm interested in those subjects for sure.

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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.

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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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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about.

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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.

Anymore Kids Many Now
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Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

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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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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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Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

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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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I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

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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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Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.
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The instrument that I never learned how to play was my fans. You know, they are the part of the story that nobody teaches you. I just want to do the right thing; I want to be a voice with them, among them

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Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.

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