Montgomery Clift Quotes

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

Montgomery Clift

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• I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Control
  • Focus
  • Best

• I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • World
  • Competition
  • Games

• The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Truth
  • Brain
  • Details

• I don't look like a white woman. I look Somali.

  

  Iman
  • Woman
  • Look
  • White

• It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Fun
  • Role
  • Bull

• 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?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • You
  • Audience
  • Said

• From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • View
  • Networking
  • Far Away

• I come from a background where money has never been an issue.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Money
  • Never
  • Where

• I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Up
  • Family
  • School

• I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • World
  • Movie
  • Night

• 250,000 people turned up in Dublin to cheer me on an open-topped bus along O'Connell St after my world title winning fight in 1985. I'll never forget the sea of smiling faces that greeted me that day.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Great
  • Calling
  • Pursued

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• Questions and answers is a big space, and there are lots of possible systems that you can create for different goals.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Different
  • Space
  • Goals

• Modeling can be a bit brain damaging. Starting my own brand was what I needed to do. I only model if there are such good jobs that you don't want to say no to. All that dressing up makes me say, 'What do I want to wear?' and, 'What do I want to do with Topshop?' It all kind of leads into the other things.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • Good
  • Brain

• I'm appealing to people who want something different, but the world, on the whole, doesn't really embrace different things. Not on the whole.

  

  FKA twigs
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Up
  • Doing
  • Holiday

• It is apparent that prisoners of war are among the most vulnerable of people. Not only are they completely under the control of their captors, but in a time of conflict, the hatred and brutality of the battlefield are very likely to be mirrored within military prison walls.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • People
  • Time
  • War

• Wonderful coffee. Meal in itself

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Coffee

• Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Failure
  • Street
  • Detour

• It sounds strange to say it, but you can be in a war zone and have a lot of fun. Even though war is essentially pain on all sides, human beings have the capacity to enjoy themselves. The soldiers are mostly young people, full of enthusiasm and energy, and that's an exciting thing for an old guy like me.

  

  Bruce Cockburn
  • People
  • War
  • Fun

• So that's where it differs for me now, it's the creativity, versus, the raunchiness from back in the days. So I just try to be more creative nowadays.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Trying
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

  

  Montgomery Clift
  • Energy
  • Failure
  • Creative