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"We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged."
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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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"You can stroke people with words."
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"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."
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"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
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"I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette."
Heart
"I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me."
Creativity
"I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order."
Crime
"The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!"
Family
"I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history."
History
"The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous."
Ethics
"I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book."
Change
"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."
Cinema
"I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't."
War
"Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special."
Love
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