- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since 1988, I have been writing steadily. I did decide a couple of years or so ago to scale back to writing one book a year - a sort of semi-retirement. But I never did have much success with that plan!
- Nov 07, 2020
It's this idea that success changes you as a person... I've never seen my career that way.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never want to get a job because I'm female. I want to get it because I earned it and I deserve it... Whether my hair is going to be blue or purple, people should be judged on how well they do the job and deliver results and whether they do it the right way. That's how I like to be judged; most people are like that.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started, you had cochineal food colouring that would turn things pink, but you could never make it red. Now, red is no problem - and if you look at supermarket bakery sections since 'Bake Off' began, you can get everything.
- Not Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not perfect. I've made mistakes. I'd do a lot of things different if I could. I'd never, ever, get involved with surrogacy again. It's so weird.
- Business Career
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- Nov 07, 2020
My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would never scream at my kids, never raise my voice. But as they often tell me, they were so well behaved that screaming was not necessary.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020