Erich Segal Quotes
I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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Along with issues like global warming, I think a problem with the world today is population decline.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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I can't imagine that I would have been cast in the role, without Jamie Lee giving me a thumbs up.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.
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I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.
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The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.
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As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was.
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Win pretty, win ugly, just win.
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I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.
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There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
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Competing in my first Olympics in the country where my parents came from is pretty insane. I'm feeling nothing but excitement.
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To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening.
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We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. We cannot save ourselves nor sanctify ourselves, God does that; but God will not give us good habits, He will not give us character, He will not make us walk aright. We have to do all that ourselves.
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The Savior accomplished the Atonement, which resolves the most terrible burdens that can occur in this life.
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You just assume that you have some anan, ana, ananonimity, anonymity? Yeah, anonimity.
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If your dominant intent is to feel joy while you are doing the work, your triad of intentions - freedom, growth and joy - will come quickly and easily into alignment. See your "career" as one of creating a joyful life experience. You are not a creator of things or a regurgitator of what someone else has created or a gatherer of stuff. You are a creator, and the subject of your creation is your joyful life experience. That is your mission. That is your quest. That is why you are here.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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When I think about old Hollywood and the glamour of those days, women like Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Audrey Hepburn were not dressing the way some girls dress today. There was a certain mystery about them, and I feel like that's gone in our industry.
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You must learn how to handle rejection. To succeed, you must learn how to cope with a little word 'no', learn how to strip that rejection of all its power. The best salesmen are those who are rejected most. They are the ones who can take any 'no' and use it as a prod to go onto the next 'yes'.
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I was afraid of being rejected, yes. I was also afraid of being accepted for the wrong reasons.
