You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure.
George Cukor
Recitation: by Male by Female
My instinct is to absolutely recoil when talking about writing in a mechanistic way. Nothing could be dumber than writing a film or TV script based on prescriptions, on other peoples' ideas of what character should be.
Michael Hirst
CharacterIdeasWritingTalkingWay
'Pearl Harbor' is definitely about December 7, 1941, but it is not of December 7, 1941. It's not even really of our age, either. It has more of the feel of a film from, roughly, mid-war.
Stephen Hunter
AgeFeelMoreDecemberFilmEven
I think I never had this grandiose dream of being any country music star. I just slowly progressed into that's what I'm doing.
Luke Combs
MusicThinkDoingDreamCountry
I would venture to guess that if I was a construction worker... who requested a transfer to another department for the betterment of his family, I would be commended for it. But because it's sports, there's just so much passion added to it.
Derek Fisher
FamilyPassionSportsConstruction
I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make.
Chely Wright
MusicThinkTraditionYouKnowMuch
I certainly enjoy Usher, Beyonce, Chris Brown, and there is Fantasia; these people will be around a while. They've got it. They've got the 'it' factor.
Aretha Franklin
PeopleEnjoyWillGotBrownAround
My two style icons are Edie Sedgwick and Brigitte Bardot.
Pixie Lott
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After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.
Phyllis Schlafly
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The shores of the Black Sea lend themselves to the literary genre that may be classified as 'cultural pilgrimage,' which is not just a higher form of travel writing but which has the further mission of reporting on present conditions and supplying neglected knowledge.
Norman Davies
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I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.
Nolan Ryan
LifeFamilyBaseballStepMeAlways
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
Muhammad Ali
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I don't want to make a cheap analysis, but when you have, like I did, a father incapable of showing emotion, who spends his life telling you that no one will love you if you aren't perfect, it leaves scars.
Jane Fonda
LifeLoveFatherYouPerfectScars
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