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		You have to capitalise on any success you have and keep doing what you do as well as you can. But how do you define success? In my book, it's to be playing those parts you saw your idols - Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren, Vanessa Redgrave - playing when they were the age you are now.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Janet McTeer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		I don't take it very seriously. You shouldn't let your success get to your head or failure get to your heart. This is most commonly said. But people don't really practise it. I don't see myself as a celebrity; it has not sunk in. I just see myself as someone doing a nine-to-six job like a techie. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rakul Preet Singh 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Iman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There's been a huge history of cisgender success on the back of trans stories, which is something I'm deeply aware of. My take on it, I suppose, was that I do think actors should be able to play anything. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Eddie Redmayne 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Randy Bachman 
			 
			
				The Guess Who  
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ichiro Suzuki 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Randeep Hooda 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hans Kung 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Frances Burney 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Salvador Dali 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ted Dekker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Naveen Andrews