Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
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This bikini made me a success.
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I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
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It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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The success of 'Kick' will help in the marketing of other small budget independent films I have acted in.
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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.
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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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Music has always been a huge passion in my life. I've just had such success with my acting that it's really been right alongside of it, and I've always been writing and playing and singing.
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I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.
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I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas.
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I regret I didn't ever learn how to fly a plane. I had the opportunity when I started to make some money, and I regret I didn't really take the time out and put the effort in and do that.
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I look at myself as the luckiest man alive.
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I'm very proud of the world that's embracing all these different ideas of what it is to be diverse, in 2017.
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THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.
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When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
