Sidney Sheldon Quotes - Page 2

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• the difference between a rebel and a patriot depends upon who is in power at the moment.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Differences, Political, Rebel

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• Not now.It's too late.It was always too late.

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  Too Late, Late

  Sidney Sheldon (1990). “Memories of Midnight”

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• I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power - their femininity, because men can't do without it.

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  Writing, Men, Important

  "Author Sidney Sheldon dies", www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 31, 2007.

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• It's bEtter tO hAte me 4 whO i Am,thAn tO lUv 4 wAt i'm pretNdng tO bE.

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  Hate, Who I Am, Hate Me

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• Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.

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  Book, Writing, Sleep

  "Sidney Sheldon's guide to success", www.cnn.com. October 19, 2000.

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• The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.

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  Book, Writing, People

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• Because there was a hunger in me to see everything and do everything. I wanted to be everyone I saw. I wasn't enough for me. Can you understand that?

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  Ambition, Saws, Hunger

  Sidney Sheldon (1992). “Three complete novels”, Wings

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• Do you always throw your money away like this?" "Only when I'm in love.

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• The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.

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  Thinking, Eagles, Wings

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• Nothing lasts forever

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  Forever, Lasts, Nothing Lasts Forever

  Sidney Sheldon (2012). “The Other Side of Midnight”, p.2, HarperCollins UK

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• Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures.

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  New York, Angel, Lunch

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• I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.

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  Narrative, Form

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• When they die, no one will ever know that they lived on this earth.

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  Knows, Dies

  "The Other Side of Me".

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• I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

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  Cheating, Lying, Tired

  Sidney Sheldon (2010). “Doomsday Conspiracy: The New Novel”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded.

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  Night, People, Feels

  "Author Sidney Sheldon talks about his new novel, 'The Sky Is Falling'". Live Chat, www.cnn.com. October 13, 2000.

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• What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

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  Character, Way, Figures

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• In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process

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  Character, Thinking, Hands

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• Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life.

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  Dream, Shadow, Substance

  Sidney Sheldon (1990). “Memories of Midnight”

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• When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

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  Movie, Writing, Actors

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• Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise.

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  Men, Ideas, Males

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• I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

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  Years, Hollywood, Would Be

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• The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership, he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

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  Happiness, Wise, Believe

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• He believed nothing he was told and trusted no one.

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  Trusted

  Sidney Sheldon (2012). “Memories of Midnight”, p.12, HarperCollins UK

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• I will survive, Tracy thought. I face mine enemies naked, and my courage is my shield.

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  Enemy, Naked, Shields

  Sidney Sheldon (2007). “Master of the Game; If Tomorrow Comes”

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• If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.

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  Real, Character, Thinking

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