Sidney Sheldon
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JOHN FUSCO CHUCK PALAHNIUK WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE LANA TURNER JOSS WHEDON STEPHEN CHBOSKY When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, ... JANE YOLEN SIR HUMPHREY DAVY TOM ROBBINS VALERIE BERTINELLI Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It fel... KATHERINE HEIGL SHARI ARISON I have little or no concern at how people interpret my writing, my only concern is to write it. ROBERT BLACK DEEPIKA PADUKONE SIDNEY SHELDON My success is protected by a combination lock; it’s taken me most of my life to find the code to u... SHANE J VAN DER VELDE ALEXANDER POPE When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most mem... KAJOL JEAN-LUC GODARD FRANK OCEAN When I am me, I can see me in my space. My desk faces the window and an ocean. The flower on my desk... JAN DENISE AMY BLOOM FLANNERY O'CONNOR NATHANIEL BRANDEN All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of m... PATRICIA REILLY GIFF In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always st... MARY GARDEN Visiting the tour center has been especially rewarding for me and my staff. The visit provided pract... DAVID PEARSON I tell you, life is extraordinary. A few years ago I couldn’t write anything or sell anything, I�... HELENE HANFF All I would say is that when I've been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, cert... RUPERT FRIEND MICHAEL J. FOX I find it hard to imagine how someone listens to my stuff, or views what I do, or me, or anything. DANIELLE DAX SARAH MACLEAN Every so often I write more than I speak. Writing is another expression for me.. It is a way of arti... CLAIRE BURROUGHS PEREZ DANNY STRONG BILL CLEGG YARA SHAHIDI AARON RODGERS ZADIE SMITH My mother used to tell me, “Things always look worse at night.” For the most part, I believe her... CAROLYN CUSTIS JAMES CASSANDRA CLARE ELIZABETH GILBERT Most people think physical ugliness blocks chances. The beautiful young man or woman is incapacitate... RAYMOND OBENG CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Don’t tell me my writing is misogynistic or anti-feminist just because I or my heroines like to be... R.B. O'BRIEN To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life. ALAIN ROBERT In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these othe... EVELYN LAU It's always been about the experience of life and of not being passive. If something so excites my c... TISH GRIER DAVID COOK So I guess I wonder, where is the line separating me into this culture or that culture, saying I hav... EOWYN IVEY For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's... WALLACE SHAWN MAHATMA GANDHI C.S. LEWIS Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI My job is to sell the Daily Express. My job isn't anything else. My job is to produce newspapers tha... PETER HILL SHASHI THAROOR Watch out for the dream killer or those who try to speak against what God has said. I make no apolog... ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE I would like to get married, but it must be a man who is part of my work, or me part of his. ELSA PERETTI SUNDAY ADELAJA I always, by an involuntary act of defensiveness, return to my everyday self: so, I find, have I wit... NGAIO MARSH KATIE MCGARRY NATASHA TRETHEWEY JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING BARBRA STREISAND Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK LAUREN CONRAD older mentor. I had to be out of my mind. He was ... RICHELLE MEAD FLANNERY O'CONNOR If I think of a reader while I am writing, the only reader who really matters for me is my wife. It&... ALEXI ZENTNER ROMAN POLANSKI The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everyth... RENE DENFELD JODI MEADOWS JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING AMANDA HOLDEN When faced with choosing between attributing their pain to “being crazy” and having had abusive ... LISA FERENTZ I'm raised by a single mom and didn't have pops around for the most part of my life. And she... SHEMAR MOORE As I inch forward to embrace my life again by being mindful, writing books, and planning adventures,... LISA J. SHULTZ ANASAZI FOUNDATION MICHAEL GRANT Music's always been such a big part of my life - it's always got me through everything and it always... LISA MARIE PRESLEY What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned ... DAVID BAKER SUZANNE COLLINS Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my... IMOGEN HEAP Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English. OMAR SY HOPE SOLO A. N. WILSON JAMIE LEE CURTIS If there is pain in my life or something that is wrong. I try to go to that place in me and write fr... JENEANE SESSUM EMILY BRONTë MELISSA GILBERT
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JOSS SHELDON SHELDON KOPP SHELDON KOPP SHELDON KOPP SHELDON WHITEHOUSE SHELDON WHITEHOUSE SHELDON WHITEHOUSE SHELDON WHITEHOUSE SHELDON WHITEHOUSE SHELDON WHITEHOUSE SHELDON WHITEHOUSE That death, so full of suffering for us both, suffering that still overwhelmed my life, was yet a se... SHELDON VANAUKEN Goodness & love are as real as their terrible opposites, and, in truth, far more real, though I ... SHELDON VANAUKEN …though I wouldn’t have admitted it, even to myself, I didn’t want God aboard. He was too heav... SHELDON VANAUKEN It is, I think, that we are all so alone in what lies deepest in our souls, so unable to find the wo... SHELDON VANAUKEN The best argument for Christianity is Christians: their joy, their certainty, their completeness. Bu... SHELDON VANAUKEN SHELDON KOPP Donovan is the franchise player here. We built this team around him. We're going to go as far as he ... 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No: a glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a ... SHELDON VANAUKEN There was something tender and gentle about our love, something a little shy, that was like early sp... SHELDON VANAUKEN I had always served beauty. Davy and I together had loved beauty. Now, maybe, I was worshipping beau... SHELDON VANAUKEN To believe with certainty, somebody said, one has to begin by doubting. SHELDON VANAUKEN SHELDON WHITEHOUSE At this point, it sort of has a life of its own. AMBER SHELDON I've worked hard to build it, and it just keeps growing. AMBER SHELDON I support hockey in this region, and I was thinking of a good way to show support. AMBER SHELDON It's been five years of hardship against these guys, them running up the score on us and what a good... SHELDON KUHNS We're regulating ourselves out of the quiet enjoyment of our community. If we can't find a way to do... SHELDON THAYER We used to be the little town that could and now we're the little town that won't. SHELDON THAYER It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly... SHELDON VANAUKEN I have recently moved away but I am glad to hear the proposals were withdrawn. It was just the wrong... DAVID SHELDON The economic data over the next several weeks are going to be difficult to interpret, and it'll be i... MICHAEL SHELDON It’s our self-proclaimed protectors from whom need we protection most. SHELDON RICHMAN SHELDON KOPP SHELDON KOPP The most effective guard against delinquency is a father who is at the same time both strict and lov... SHELDON GLUECK He was very dogmatic. He wasn't interested in Ohio State. JOHN SHELDON Eastman Kodak in its heyday might have paid more, but there are different benefits, including tuitio... SHELDON STEINBACH While the term 'clean' is ambiguous, the desired result is one that meets or exceeds the cleanliness... PETER SHELDON SHELDON WHITEHOUSE There's a touch screen where you can assemble snippets into a mini-show. Imagine you go to a jukebox... SHELDON SCHAFER Pot has become a government cash crop. SHELDON HAYES Keep it simple you make less mistakes that way SHELDON HAYES Love is the foundation of forgiveness. SHELDON HAYES The heart can never be filled with to much love SHELDON HAYES Poverty is never self inflicted it is created and orchestrated by the powers that be. SHELDON HAYES You cannot promote peace while engaging in war. SHELDON HAYES He didn't see me and probably felt he could connect on the deep slant. SHELDON BROWN When I think of Colonel Crawford it reminds me a lot of the district I grew up in, a rural district ... DAVID SHELDON If it's half as good as the half we've known, here's Hail! to the rest of the road. SHELDON VANAUKEN Historically, the three-month period before the Fed goes on hold in the rate hiking cycle, stocks ha... 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SHELDON ADELSON I've already figured out when I'm going to be No. 2 and No. 1. SHELDON ADELSON I see this as my humanitarian legacy. We're prepared to pay billions. SHELDON ADELSON I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and chan... SHELDON ADELSON I was sitting with the Prime Minister, and he was making reference to the Mice market. I said: 'Is t... SHELDON ADELSON For me, businesses are like buses. You stand on a corner and you don't like where the first bus is g... SHELDON ADELSON Your future is as bright as the stars the only difference is the stars are going to be in this world... SHELDON CLIFTON Alfred is taken past this broom, and enters this room; which can only be described as 'piecemeal'. I... JOSS SHELDON The optimist would say we're in the early stage of a broad rally, the pessimist would say this is a ... MICHAEL SHELDON He didn't alienate every player. He did talk to some teammates. We all have to drop our egos, period... SHELDON BROWN The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to m... SHELDON JACKSON Television is a distraction device that was developed to deliberately destroy our desire to discover... SHELDON HAYES The art of war is stratergy and a plan B SHELDON HAYES Obsession is a compulsion fueled by ones desire. SHELDON HAYES Forgiveness is the strongest pain killer. SHELDON HAYES Economic recovery is impossible when you force the people into poverty and destitution. SHELDON HAYES Caged birds don't sing if they are not happy SHELDON HAYES Freedom is not free sacrifice is the ultimate price and death is the final fee. SHELDON HAYES People who judge others without knowledge of them are shallow and insignificant. SHELDON HAYES Those drugs were either going to bring me nirvana or they were going to kill me. I was sure of it. A... 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Forget what they told you in school. Get educa... JOSS SHELDON My parents, you see, were a little square. They cared more about being good parents in the general s... JOSS SHELDON SHELDON WHITEHOUSE Signs must be read with caution. The history of Christendom is replete with instances of people who ... SHELDON VANAUKEN a champion of the homosexual agenda. LOUIS SHELDON The president has taken a courageous stand in favor of traditional marriage at a moment in American ... LOUIS SHELDON Homosexuals are attempting to redefine the family and what constitutes marriage, ... And because the... LOUIS SHELDON This is all tied to Jack? ... I'm shocked out of my socks. LOUIS SHELDON I'm really proud of our entire team. Everyone competed really well, and it was just impressive. JUDY SHELDON This is a big first step in helping to provide the LRN labs with FDA cleared assays. The work done a... JUDY SHELDON I pulled the sheet off their faces. 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Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-a... 
I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best. 
Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the pu... 
I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they ... 
When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away... 
To be, or not to be, that is the question. 
My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know gr... 
I just wish that God or my parents or Sam or my sister or someone would just tell me what's wrong wi... 
The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures. 
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. 
People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell ... 
I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that ther... 
Yes, my life has changed in terms of the fame and the success, the number of eye balls on you all th... 
On 'Jeannie' it said 'Created by Sidney Sheldon, written by Sidney Sheldon.' It was like an ego trip... 
Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own? 
To be or not to be. That's not really a question. 
I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with t... 
I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I ... 
The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its... 
Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at ... 
I heard from thousands of PD patients and their families about their daily struggles, their frustrat... 
For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of be... 
I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself. 
Recovery is an ongoing project that is really discrete from everything else in my life. It allows me... 
Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I real... 
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I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever a... 
I haven’t been very impressed lately.
I have to be involved. Whether it's me writing by myself or with other people, I definitely want... 
I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no ... 
The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surpr... 
I don't go by my caste, creed or religion. My works speak for me. 
When people ask me how come I have written over three hundred books my response to them is take adva... 
This is who I am, Rachel . Accept it or not. The tattoos won’t wash off. The earrings will never c... 
A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national, ... 
"To me it's not a ... This is my ... This is my ... I was going to say this is my life. It's not my ... 
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is ve... 
My website inspired me to create my book club and provides me with a creative outlet where I can wri... 
I was crushing on my mentor. Crushing on my older mentor. I had to be out of my mind. He was ... 
A lot has changed for me. My life has improved. It's not only children, but the relationship with my... 
Breathing in the scent of his hair, I realized I'd needed him my whole life, before we even met. Fir... 
"To me it's not a ... This is my ... This is my ... I was going to say this is my life. It's not my ... 
I don't care who or what judges me, nothing's going to stop me from living my life how I choose. 
I speak of the Creator. He has walked with me often in my journeys, and it has been by learning to w... 
It takes me a while to figure things out, doesn't it?" Edilio grinned. "Do me a favor. When you find... 
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One thing I've learned in life is that I can speak for myself, that I can fight my own battles. I do... 
My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write t... 
The most rewarding aspect of parenting is seeing my children be authentic. The most rewarding thing ... 
I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they hav... 
My whole life, my mother told me I would have SAG to fall back on. When I see a woman in her mid-40s... 
Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you ... 
When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded. 
All of the significant battles are waged within the self. 
You only get to keep what you give away. 
Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars ... 
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self 
Either I will find a way, or I will make one. 
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection. 
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Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. 
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