Successful Quotes
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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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I'd rather people talked about the 1,000 most successful French Internet companies instead of the 5 or 10 faces we already know - including mine.
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There is not a great sense that the Americans know what they are doing, or are making much progress in Iraq. And there is satisfaction in seeing that the Iraqis are successful in resisting the United States.
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When I was new, I didn't know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes.
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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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To be successful, you have to have quantity of quality.
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It's not fair to use movies that weren't creatively successful as a reason why something won't work.
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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.
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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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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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A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
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The successful teacher is no longer on a height, pumping knowledge at high pressure into passive receptacles.
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People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.
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Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.
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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 did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all... but after making those movies, I thought, 'I wouldn't watch my own movies when I was 16, and my buddies where I came from wouldn't watch my movies, because they were boring.'
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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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I'd traveled a lot, was going temporarily insane and became very successful, but there was no one to take that all home to.
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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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Being successful is kind of dull.
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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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David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who captured the thoughts of a generation. He was hugely successful, without compromise.
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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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What attracted me to New York was there was an anonymity that I couldn't always have in Los Angeles, and it was easier to blend in there. The more successful you are, the less you are able to do that.
