#know

I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#anything #believe #haven #i #know

I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#amsterdam #books #dutch #fact #great

I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#american #american dream #dream #fans #getting

Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#know #must #passion #something #then

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food. ↗

— Joan Collins

#beauty #books #come #comes #eating

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it. ↗

— Joan Collins

#actor #any #approbation #get #harder

I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable. ↗

— Judy Collins

#actually #ago #cancer #frightened #i

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day. ↗

— Peter Ustinov

#am #anew #day #every #every day

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#believe #believing #everybody #far #good

I know that I'm going to have to work hard, keep working hard, and not because of this victory think, "I'm back." I don't think like that. I'll definitely work hard. Things are not going to be easy. I might lose first round next week. You never know. ↗

— Kim Clijsters

#because #definitely #easy #first #going