W. L. George Quotes
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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I had a one-year-old son. How will my failure or success limit what he becomes? I was trying to write screenplays. It doesn't pay very well until you sell one. I was poor.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
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I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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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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Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
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If we'd had another carefree 70's, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.
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It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone.
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Adam Smith's huge failure was the fact that he did not foresee the industrial revolution.
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Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.
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Most of the authors I liked were dead, so it didn't seem like a safe occupation.
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Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece.
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Translation is the art of failure.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.
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Once he had been so formidable that he was surrounded by enemies. Now even his enemies has lost interest in him. What clearer sign of failure could you find than that?
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Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.
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Great photography is always on the edge of failure.
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Such knowledge is probably gained in several ways. One process undoubtedly operates through social comparison of success and failure experiences. Children repeatedly observe their own behavior and the attainments of others.
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Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
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Co-parenting is going great with Britney. The schedule has been worked out over time, and we talk when we need to. It's always about the boys - mostly school stuff - and we make sure we stay on top of that. It's going great.
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He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
