W. Clement Stone Quotes
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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Every sentence stands on its own. Whether that's fair or not, that's kind of the way it is.
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What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's labeled great music.
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She was not a person who would allow the system to dictate her life.
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In life, you don't get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. So don't be afraid to ask - the worst you can hear is 'no.'
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When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.
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You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
