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"People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before."
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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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"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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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
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"I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it."
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"People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before."
People
"I bought a selection of short, romantic fiction novels, studied them, decided that I had found a formula and then wrote a book that I figured was the perfect story. Thank goodness it was rejected."
Fiction
"Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in."
Heart
"I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal."
Thought
"Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now."
Now
"It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I'm not sure it would ever have found its way into print."
Belief
"When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so."
Work
"Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children. Those children's bedtime rituals of supper, bath, stories, and sleep have been a staple of my life and some of the best, most special times I can remember."
Life
"The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers."
Dance
"I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way."
Baby
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