Sidney Sheldon
Related Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them ta... GIOCONDA BELLI I always like to believe that my work is about the expansion of the possibilities of the viewer. So ... JEFF KOONS MARTIN PARR SIDNEY SHELDON I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audien... DOUG HUTCHISON ALAIN DE BOTTON LEAH LABELLE BRYAN CRANSTON F. SCOTT FITZGERALD NANCY REAGAN RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER I don't have sophisticated tastes. I have average tastes. If you looked in my collection of DVDs... SIMON COWELL ROBYN DAVIDSON I think it's easy for people to say, 'Because you do this, you must be this kind of person, ... LAMAR ODOM You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your ... JOEL COEN JEANIENE FROST you weren't mine to begin with. IAIN S. THOMAS Filmmaking is hard. I mean, it's not that hard, but it is hard to find your way through a system... DAVID MACKENZIE HOWARD SCHULTZ It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a... BEN MCKENZIE Ask anybody who has ever remodeled their house. There's always problems. They open up walls, the... ALAN CASDEN RACHAEL TAYLOR ELISHA CUTHBERT CARLES PUIGDEMONT I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense ... MICKEY RIVERS HELEN FISHER KEN ROBINSON I enjoy theatre tremendously, and there's nothing like a live performance. MELANIE RAWN RICHARD DAWKINS LOU HOLTZ ASHTON KUTCHER SHARON SALZBERG I can't even SARAH VAN WATERSCHOOT There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do thin... TAYLOR SCHILLING TV is the place for writers to live. This is where you have creative control and you're constant... MELISSA ROSENBERG I think there's no creative process that goes without injuries and scratches and punches. You ge... EDGAR RAMIREZ MARC JACOBS It's not whether you win or lose, it's how many people remember you when you die. JONATHAN ROSS Kanye is going to have to decide early whether or not he's a Baby Bjorn guy, because the minute ... WILLIE GEIST not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions."ANTON CHEKHOV ANDREA BOCELLI I just wanted to do this all Australian film and we didn't want to give creative control to over... YAHOO SERIOUS GAEL GARCIA BERNAL If you look at the mythology of aliens, there's a lot about gold. It's about them coming for... JON FAVREAU JULIA CAMERON JAMES DYSON A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name... WATKIN TUDOR JONES Jesus Christ never preached there should be celibate priests. The only reason the church has this is... ALEX GIBNEY SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT FRANK IERO JOHN ROSS BOWIE GEORGE R. R. MARTIN VALENTINA TERESHKOVA I suppose it's whether you want to be a famous person, or whether you want to be an actor. You h... ANNE-MARIE DUFF DREW BARRYMORE Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendous... MAX LANDIS CARSON DALY Then, you have to decide whether you want to go worldwide or confine yourself to certain markets. On... DIDIER GRUMBACH WONG KAR-WAI DAVID G. FARRAGUT ED HELMS There's this thing about authenticity when you rap, right? Whether or not it's real, it has ... DAVEED DIGGS ZOOEY DESCHANEL Animation is awesome because there's a really bold type of comedy you can get away with that you... CHRISTOPHER MILLER TARAJI P. HENSON DANIEL TOSH BEAR GRYLLS I think everything's experimental whether you like it or not. I think that people who do generic... BILL LASWELL Those who write may think they know their target market. They may even feel they can shape the work ... CATHERINE RYAN HYDE WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN Optimism and Pessimism are two buttons that every human being has inside of them. Whether you decide... ISAIAH HARDEN It's a small community, the classical music community, along with the excitement of new places a... JOSHUA ROMAN In my whole career, I've never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. The... DAVID WELLS Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as... FRANCIA RAISA ETHAN COEN As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's ... JAMES BADGE DALE DEEPAK CHOPRA Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing, you kind of a... SHEMAR MOORE I believe that the Tibetans should have the right to control their own destinies and decide for them... MA JIAN I think the main thing we can do, whether you agree or not, I don't think that's the real is... VICKY HARTZLER ALVIN AILEY On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagi... STEPHEN LANG JOAN BAEZ RANDY PAUSCH The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth... FRANCES O'CONNOR DAN ARIELY GEORGE CLOONEY I am fascinated by the whole process of what it's like to be alive, whether it's unbelievabl... CHARLOTTE RAMPLING DAVID COOK SETH GRAHAME-SMITH JOY HARJO I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of ... ZE FRANK It's a manic-depressive life. You run in here, you open your incubator, your experiment makes no... BONNIE BASSLER LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attra... GUY RITCHIE JOAN BAEZ ALBERT CAMUS ANG LEE KEITH RICHARDS JODI PICOULT
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