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"Talent is a gift that can be given, and it can be taken away. We have to appreciate that."
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"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but the world's champions."
"We're all geniuses. Life is merely overpopulated with singers who play drums, and, drummers who sing, to pay rent."
"There is only one school of literature - that of talent."
"Certain abilities in you sometimes yearn to be expressed."
"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
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"Stories had always been told about male genies coming out of bottles, but they were usually fat, old men. Never had the genie been a gorgeous woman, so that idea really appealed to me, and I created the series based on that premise."
"Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself."
"I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it."
"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."
"I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story."
"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."
"I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions."
"The thing that made Groucho special was the way he used his body parts. He also had a wicked tongue. People didn't realize it, but when Groucho said something, he meant it."
"The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life."
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