Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Orison Swett Marden

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Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid foundation of ideas, but I wasn't really playing music.

Jimmy Page

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I just have to relax before each shot, and let it happen knowing that I've done it a million times before.

Jennifer Wyatt

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I think plot is very overrated. Plot is obviously necessary, but what I really care about is emotionally affecting the audience. Having a thought myself and then an emotional experience myself, somehow transferring that to the audience.

Jeff Nichols

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I was nicknamed Skeeter in Little League because I was small and fast, like a mosquito flying across the outfield.

Skeet Ulrich

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When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called 'How to Build a Snowman,' from which no practical snowperson-crafting techniques could be gleaned. The story was an assignment for class and it featured a series of careful but meaningless instructions. Of course, the building of the snowman was a red herring.

Sloane Crosley

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I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.

Rose Kennedy

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From a very strategic level, I believe the military is part of the solution to better outcomes around the world, but at a higher level, it's really about economies.

Michael Mullen

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In the 20th century, imprisonment of writers practically comes with the territory.

Joseph Brodsky

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You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.

Donella Meadows

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In many countries, women aren't jubilant when they learn they are pregnant. Quite the opposite - they're terrified.

Christy Turlington

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The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.

Phillips Brooks

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My mum very much wanted me to go into the theatre.

Peter Sellers

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