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"Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period."
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"Misery suffered did not justify misery to come."

"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot, reading is the creative center of a writer's life, you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."

"I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it."

"When you go beyond your limitations, that is called success."
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"As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening."

"The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark."

"For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important."

"I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says: Will you send a photograph? And I think: Maybe it's kinder not to. I'm deeply into my 50s now."

"I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things."

"When I was little I always thought I was marked out, special, on the verge of something momentous. I used to tingle with anticipation."

"So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you."
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