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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I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.
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As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
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As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
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Prosperity doth bewitch men, seeming clear;But seas do laugh, show white, when rocks are near.
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I have endeavoured to show that the ability to pay taxes depends, not on the gross money value of the mass of commodities, nor on the net money value of the revenue of capitalists and landlords, but on the money value of each man's revenue compared to the money value of the commodities which he usually consumes.
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I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.
