Natalie Goldberg Quotes
Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
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I was in a Nativity play as a kid. Back then, I played the donkey.
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I'm not coming back to play.
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I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.
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In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world.
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It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.
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Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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The Rock will always come back to us.
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America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.
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The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.
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For the Nugent family, fast food is a running herbivore.
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Only failure makes us experts.
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I left, but not before I kissed your mother eight times on the lips. That’s what we do, and amid all this uncertainty and lack of normalcy, I think it’s important to maintain our standards.
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One of the first gardens I did outside the family was for the designer Hattie Carnegie. I was 23 then, and I went to her salon, but could not afford any of her dresses myself, though I loved them. Miss Carnegie suggested I do a garden in exchange for a coat and dress, and so I designed and planted a garden for her.
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The inability of those in power to still the voices of their own consciences is the great force leading to change.
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We carry our younger selves with us our whole lives, and we can measure out of lives by music we've loved or icons we've loved.
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Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
