Sidney Sheldon Quotes - Page 3

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• She undressed slowly, dreamily, and when she was naked, she selected a bright red negligee to wear so that the blood would not show.

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  Blood, Naked, Red

  Sidney Sheldon (2012). “If Tomorrow Comes”, p.3, HarperCollins UK

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• I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?

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  Thinking, Hands, Scared

  Sidney Sheldon (2007). “The dark side of midnight: featuring The other side of midnight, Rage of angels”

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• There's this sense of excitement because you invent and control the characters. You decide whether they live or die. I find this type of creative process tremendously stimulating.

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  Character, Creative, Excitement

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• Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.

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  Business, Winning, Games

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

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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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• To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.

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  Justice, Greek, Vengeance

  Sidney Sheldon (2012). “Memories of Midnight”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

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  Motivational, Hero, Emotional

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• I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.

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  Country, Attitude, People

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• The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

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  Strong Women, Character, Personality

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• Every man is a prisoner, and the greatest irony of all is to be the prisoner of another man.

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  Men, Irony, Prisoner

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

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• I go to great lengths to make certain situations feel right to the reader.

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  Length, Certain, Situation

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• We’re flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can’t con people unless they’re greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can’t cheat an honest man.

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  Artist, Men, People

  SIDNEY SHELDON (1985). “IF TOMORROW COMES”

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• I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it

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  Writing, Research, World

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• Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.

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  Men, Compassion, Way

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• I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.

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  Character, Thinking, People

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• Writing novels is the most exciting

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  Writing, Exciting, Novel

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• Womens value has been under-recognized for far too long.

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  Long, Has Beens, Values

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• I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history.

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  Integrity, Men, Honor

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• Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.

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  Heaven, Teach, Mortals

  Sidney Sheldon (1990). “Memories of Midnight”

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• If you don't know why,I could never explain it to you.

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  Knows, Ifs

  Sidney Sheldon (1977). “The other side of midnight”, Dell Publishing Company

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