#the

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music. ↗

— Dinah Shore

#became #bothered #came #important #less

Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting. ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#educational #exciting #just #purpose #rather

My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#armed forces #better #better place #day #every

In a novel, on the other hand, you not only have to describe the rooms, but the clothes, the characters and what they are thinking. It's a much more in-depth process. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#clothes #describe #hand #in-depth #more

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

— Sidney Sheldon

#both #emotional #give #heroes #i

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. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#astronaut #found #genie #her #history

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#any #care #characters #everything #feel

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. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#characters #control #creative #creative process #decide

When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded. ↗

— Sidney Sheldon

#feel #i #i feel #i feel like #kept

Of the seven experiments, the ones that have been most investigated so far have been the pets. The dogs who know when their masters for coming home, and the sense of being stared at. ↗

— Rupert Sheldrake

#being #coming #coming home #dogs #experiments