Michelle Kwan Quotes

I don't know secret to success, but I'm pretty sure the closest thing is preparation

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• I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Book
  • Reading

• There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Men
  • Successful
  • Petty

• It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Spirit

• My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Kind
  • Director
  • Writes

• The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Mother
  • Like
  • Public

• I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Party
  • Trump

• We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Time
  • Want
  • Wall

• I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Born
  • England
  • I Was Born

• It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Religion

• The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Trying
  • Friend
  • Hand

• My dad was very successful running midgets in Texas. Then, his two drivers ran into some bad luck. People started saying that Daddy had lost his touch. That it was the cars and not the drivers. I wanted to race just to prove all those people wrong.

  

  A. J. Foyt
  • People
  • Bad
  • Lost

• Form follows beauty.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Beauty
  • Form
  • Follows

• Human emotion is more interesting than anything. Everything that is so overtly sexual is not real. Real emotion is sexy. It's vulnerable and raw.

  

  Banks
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Sexy

• I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying to not think about.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Trying

• I may not be wealthy; I'm living from pay check to pay check, but I get to make movies, which is what I love to do.

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • May

• You have to pace yourself. As a producer, you start with a concept and shepherd it through the script to the delivery of the film. It's a very long journey for an hour and 40 minutes of movie.

  

  Peter Billingsley
  • Long
  • Movie
  • Journey

• The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.

  

  Alan Parker
  • People

• In terms that I admit are difficult to describe, the creative solutions will change the course of history in the past, so that variations are taken, and technology does not progress in the same way that it has in your experience.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Experience
  • History
  • Past

• When you have somebody who takes their craft seriously, you don't have to babysit them and be there all the time.

  

  Adrian Marcel
  • Craft
  • Takes

• I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

  

  Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Book
  • College
  • Reading

• There are physical characteristics which are inherited. These include things like good looks, high intelligence, physical coordination. These attributes contribute to success in life, and success in life is a determinant of optimism.

  

  Martin Seligman
  • Life
  • Good
  • High

• Success, remember is the reward of toil.

  

  Sophocles
  • Remember
  • Success
  • Toil

• I don't know secret to success, but I'm pretty sure the closest thing is preparation

  

  Michelle Kwan
  • Success
  • Knows
  • Preparation