Sara Blakely Quotes
When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put in the work or make the sacrifices needed in order to be fit.
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I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, nobody was going to get it and it would disappear, or it was going to be something special and really stand out.
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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You've got to keep pushing, keep driving, because in this business, you're going to hear 'no' a lot more than you hear 'yes.'
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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I didn't go to school a lot.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes.
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It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
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I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.
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Across the years, in spite of everything I knew, my passion endured. Newspapers and magazines paid me to cover fights when I'd have paid my own way.
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I was very interested in acting as a kid. I loved to perform.
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Honestly, I just want to have a good time, listen to great singers and great music, and just use my instincts, as usual.
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In high school, I was an absolute derelict.
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When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.
