Belva Plain Quotes
It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.
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I don't plan on being bashful.
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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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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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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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Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.
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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'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.
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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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Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
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It's okay to fail; it's not okay to quit.
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The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.
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Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.
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It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.
