Alexander Crummell Quotes
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
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Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
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I don't want to be involved with an actor because I know how they are. I've had problems in the past being with guys who haven't had any success or haven't made as much money, and it's very uncomfortable.
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I struggled in school. Math and science were difficult for me. But I can watch 10 guys play, and I can tell you what everybody did. It might be a curse because when you see everything, sometimes you don't let your kids play.
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Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
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I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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If not for the success that medicine has made, I might be part of a much different story right now.
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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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You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which 'clicks.'
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Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
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Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves.
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The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?
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I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
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Copying other people’s successes, when combined with individual learning, is dramatically better than individual learning alone.
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I think if you retire from touring then people think you are retired.
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Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.
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When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
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I've never made a meal that I wasn't able to eat, but it that doesn't mean anyone else would ever eat it, haha!
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All real success springs from that inward might which we exert upon society.
