C Robert Cargill Quotes
“Everyone had a lesson waiting, and they learned it with blood. Sometimes that's how it goes. People learn from failure and tragedy, not from success.”
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I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.
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For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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I am more of a suspense writer. A mystery writer solves mysteries. I am a 'high suspense' writer.
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Singing is my entire life. I nearly lost that. I am so blessed to be able to do this. It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do.
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Cloning, wow. Who would have thought? There should be a list of people who can and cannot clone themselves.
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I think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obviously thinking about what's going on around me, but it's easier to do stuff when you're in character.
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When I was in my teens I had issues with OCD.
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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
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There might be very primitive life in our solar system - single-cell animals, that sort of thing. We may know the answer to that in five or ten years. There is very likely to be life in other solar systems, in planets around other stars. But we won't know about that for a long time.
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We don’t do business with companies. We do business with people.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men.
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I missed a lot of school for auditions, but other than that I had a very normal childhood.
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“Everyone had a lesson waiting, and they learned it with blood. Sometimes that's how it goes. People learn from failure and tragedy, not from success.”
