Jackie Collins Quotes

Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

Jackie Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChangeTimeInterestingEnthusiasm

I've been lucky because I've had wonderful teachers along the way who have nurtured and pushed me to the next level.

Jimmy Smits

MeTeachersWayLuckyNext Level

We're all about pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps, et cetera - I think that's a harmful mythology, that the choices that we make and the things that we do in our lives are not connected to anything else. So I'd like to help to debunk that.

Jesmyn Ward

ChoicesThinkHelpConnectedUp

If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them. The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.

John Burroughs

FoodBirdsBuildingAmericanHelp

Men should look at the world as if something is wrong when their voices predominate. They should feel it.

Meryl Streep

MenWorldFeelLookWrongSomething

I don't care how much you're working out; when you go to put on that bikini, you're like, 'Oh no!'

Summer Sanders

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During my time in Washington, I have become increasingly frustrated by the power held by the gun lobby.

Mike Quigley

PowerTimeGunWashingtonBecome

In college, I would do my teammate's hair and their makeup sometimes. I did a friend's makeup at the 2008 Olympics, and she said, 'Have you ever considered taking classes?' For some reason, it had never crossed my mind.

Michelle Carter

FriendMindCollegeHairMakeupYou

As funny as we thought our script might have been, 'Super Troopers,' starring five nobodies, didn't fit the model of a good financial bet.

Jay Chandrasekhar

FunnyGoodThoughtFinancialBeen

I miss Dia. In the early '80s I was a guard at one of Dia's facilities in SoHo, and I'm sad that they closed their Chelsea space.

Donald Baechler

SadSpaceEarlyMissGuardChelsea

I hate light... I feel like at night, it's safer. If anything happens, there's a way to hide at night. Another thing I hate about light is it reminds me about being in a refugee camp and being outside.

Clemantine Wamariya

LightHateMeNightFeelHide

My dad loves to cook. I'm half Thai, and growing up, that's all we ate in my house. My dad was very big on the idea that dinnertime and cooking time was also family time.

Brenda Song

FamilyTimeCookingGrowing UpHouse

In a way, I don't want to know what's being said in casting offices, because it can get pretty brutal, and I don't want to have to think about the reasons why I don't get one job or do get one job. I can say, 'Oh, my height,' and that'll make me feel better, but I don't know for sure.

Anne Dudek

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