Anna Pavlova Quotes

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Anna Pavlova

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• I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Believe
  • Celebrity

• A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.

  

  Mae West
  • Up
  • Tied
  • Likely

• My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Gay
  • Living
  • Lesbian

• Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Good
  • Rock
  • Metal

• I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Game
  • Decisions
  • Stock

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Health

• My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Mom
  • Doing
  • Seattle

• I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Mad
  • Handle
  • Quick

• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Work
  • Think
  • Turn

• When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

  

  J. Tillman
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Education
  • Food
  • Medicine

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Important
  • Find
  • Differences

• I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Hate
  • Working
  • Learned

• I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Music
  • Different
  • Reality

• I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Years
  • Seven
  • Member

• Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'

  

  Dick Wolf
  • True
  • Risk

• To be recognized for your hard work is a true honor. An Academy Award nomination is one thing that, five years later, I can't form a sentence about. It has not made me feel like I can work any less hard. It makes me feel like I have to work 100 times as hard, to even be as remotely good, to work through an experience that could take me through that again.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Good
  • Work
  • Experience

• I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Happy

• Every day alive in the 'Power' world is a beautiful day.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • World
  • Power
  • Beautiful

• Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

  

  Anna Pavlova
  • Work
  • Success