Blanka Vlasic Quotes
Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.
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What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
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I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
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About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.
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People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.
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From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.
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I'm perpetually lonely.
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In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.
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Don't hire anyone - no matter what they offer - who promises you they'll sell 'X' copies of your book. Every book is different. The best any marketing company or PR firm can do for your book is make potential readers aware of it.
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I have a drum set in my dressing room. I play drums to relax and have some fun.
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Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true.
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I'm a New York kid, so when I saw that plane that hit the first building, I suspected it was terrorism - blue sky day.
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Law, morality, religion, are to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests.
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Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.
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Eh! sire, that is the fate of truth; she is a stern companion; she bristles all over with steel; she wounds those whom she attacks, and sometimes him who speaks her.
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I will say in a few words why the anarchist doctrine is wrong. The anarchists say that the working class does not need a government: what is needs is to organize production. Government, they say, is a bourgeois invention, a bourgeois machine of compulsion, and the working class does not need to take governmental power. This is wrong from beginning to end.
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Favorite subject? I would have to say creative writing.
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I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect.
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I was actually late to the punk movement because I was too young.
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I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she was waiting for me on the other side of the grave.
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Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.
