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One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

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The pleasure lies not in the cookies, but in the pattern the crumbs make when the cookies crumble.

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To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

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The more you can dream, the more you can do.

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Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.

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Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

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The men who died at D-Day did not die shoulder-to-shoulder with their French comrades. They died to liberate the French from a sinister and brutal occupation.

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Chanel took women out of corsets and put them into the 'simple little black dress,' the perfectly tailored suit, the bell-bottom sailor pants, and jersey tops.

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My father fought on the side of the Central Powers, as a soldier in the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Army, my maternal grandfather fought in the British Army, on different sides, and both were so traumatized by the experience that they never talked about it.

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Many years ago, I had the pleasure of editing a book by Joan Crawford, who, like Norma Desmond, was still a big star; it was just the movies that had gotten smaller.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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