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Jackie Collins Quotes

I have visited Australia several times, and I always try to make a point of going to Melbourne because it's almost my favorite city there, Melbourne and Sydney. But I shouldn't say that because I haven't been everywhere-and I'm very fond of Perth too!

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: british
Birth: October 4, 1937 - September 19, 2015

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City Say Australia Sydney Try Going

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star.

Rock Star Rock Kid Spy Star Wanted

What do kids do? They go to movies, and they go to rock concerts.

Robert Stigwood

Go Movies Rock Kids Concerts

We have this sort of tacit censorship, which is the ratings system, and it's directly tied to box office, so it is censorship. Like, if you make an R-rated movie, you know that only a certain amount of people are going to go see it under any circumstance.

Robert Zemeckis

People You Go Know Censorship See

Obama's Justice Department has also targeted Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Sheriff Joe bills himself as America's Toughest Sheriff for good reason. Maricopa County is responsible for one out of every four deportations in the country.

Good Justice America Country Reason

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Nature Knowledge Man Me World Learn

The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in my home state of Mississippi, they put me on steroids, thinking they were doing the right thing, and I had a violent reaction.

Mary Ann Mobley

Home Me Thinking Doing Right Two

There's a fundamental distinction between strategy and operational effectiveness.

Strategy Effectiveness Between

Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

Life Anger People My Life Loss Need

I really don't want to do anything that resembles stand-up comedy. But I will agree to say that I am doing it, and I will hope that people expect it to be that, so I can thwart those expectations.

Hope I Am People Expectations Comedy

We're offered bigger, larger budget movies to produce a lot, and we don't do them. That's not to say there aren't exceptions: there are a few exceptions, but I try and stick by the rules that produce what I think is the highest quality, most innovative work and try and let the rules go that make us feel like we're retreading.

Work Quality Think Feel Rules Go

I was really, really shy when I was a little girl.

Girl Shy Little Really Little Girl

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Work Sea People Ship Long You

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