Belva Plain Quotes
It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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While I try to keep my fitness regimen consistent, during awards season, I'm especially conscious of what I'll be wearing and plan my workouts accordingly.
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This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, natural disaster, you can have every wonderful plan in place, but I am a realist.
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People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
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I don't know how to get bored. I need to learn to rest.
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The democratic system is challenged by the failure in television because our evening news programmes have gone for an attempt to entertain as much as to inform in the desperate fight for ratings.
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My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.
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I would love to learn popping, locking and robotics, gymnastics and acrobatics; it is amazing to learn these things.
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It was an interesting question as to whether the BBC had a future in the digital world, and what form of market failure could justify the licence fee system.
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If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.
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Know the business, learn the business, own something.
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Failure is what we're all running from, we're always running toward success with failure at our back.
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Translation is the art of failure.
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Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the animal.
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Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
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The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings because that was my reference point for comics storytelling in general.
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In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.
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You can be going through hardships sometimes, and you're struggling, and then you're wondering if you're ever gonna make it.
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But the broader lesson of the first Industrial Revolution is more like the Indy 500 than John Henry: economic progress comes from constant innovation in which people race with machines. Human and machine collaborate together in a race to produce more, to capture markets, and to beat other teams of humans and machines.
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It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.
