Alice Foote MacDougall Quotes
I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
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I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere.
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China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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My husband and I met when I was a teenager, and I've been with him for more than half of my adult life.
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I believe boycotts are wrong.
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I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.
