Successful Quotes
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To be successful, you have to have quantity of quality.
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Eudora Welty's 'A Curtain of Green' had an enormous effect on me. But my early attempts to graft stories from the Deep South onto North of England provincialism were not successful. All were rejected.
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In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
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When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach. Why was something successful? What makes it work? I just try to use my expertise and whatever insight I have to the game.
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“She’s a queen and a mother and it’s a mother’s job to be scary,” said Wish. “Well she’s very successful at her job,” shivered Bodkin.
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And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, maybe like I could have. But I had to do what I had to do to make myself successful.
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I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
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The most successful column is one that causes the reader to throw down the paper in a peak of fit.
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How many people can you claim truly care about you? I mean, not just the people in your life who are fun to hang out with, not just the people who you love and trust. But people who feel good when you are happy and successful, feel bad when you are hurt or going through a hard time, people who would walk away from their lives for a little while to help you with yours?
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I became a film director, but I wasn't successful with my first couple of films, so I had to turn to becoming a film critic to make a living.
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The politicians of New York as not so fastidious as some gentlemen are, as to disclosing the principles on which they act. They boldly preach what they practice...if they are defeated, they expect to retire from office. If they are successful, they claim, as a matter of right, the advantages of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy.
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All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'
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The independent companies tend to be successful in areas that the majors stay away from - then they get nabbed.
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Getting to have a higher purpose other than just being successful is very necessary for me.
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None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.
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You'll never be successful until I don't have to give you a dime to do what you do.
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I'm not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I'm sort of old-fashioned. I think people need to get out there and they need to work and they need to do their music because they love it. If they become successful, then great, and if they are not, whatever.
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Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.
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It's difficult when you're successful, to admit that you need help.
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As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.
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I was very successful, and I graduated with honors. And then I called my dad, who still lives in London, and I said, 'Dad, thanks for college, but I'm going to go act now.' It didn't go over very well.
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People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.
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I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.
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Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.
