Thomas A. Edison Quotes
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I really hate to write.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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I love listening to pop radio.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.
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I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.
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I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
Nastassja Kinski
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Motion capture is amazing. I prefer it. You wear a 'Power Ranger'-esque suit, you have tape balls on you, you have 60 cameras around you capturing your every movement and there's no hair, no makeup.
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I really, really pride myself on being a professional and a man of keeping my word. It means a lot to me, truly.
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I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.
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I don't have a greatest achievement. It's something said by other people or journalists when they give you an award, or after some time you've been in the industry.
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Warhol had a huge effect on me. It wasn't that I sought it out. It was more of a natural evolution.
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The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness... Unfortunately, many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
