I'm very competitive, and my ego couldn't handle that lack of success.
Gavin DeGraw
Recitation: by Male by Female
I lived below the poverty line when I was young and starting out as a writer. But my wife and I kept trying to do things better, as anyone with ambition does. But just because you're trying doesn't mean you're always going to succeed.
Joe R. Lansdale
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When we realize that human beings are entering the world constantly and that each being is stamped at the first complete breath with the planetary pattern then in the sky, everyone must necessarily be different from everybody else.
Max Heindel
SkyWorldBe DifferentHumanFirst
I'd love to tell actors about all the things they don't need to worry about. Less is more. If you have it inside, you don't need to show too much. People pick up on things.
Sigourney Weaver
LovePeopleWorryYouToo MuchNeed
I have the feeling that I was born in Vienna in order to live in Paris.
Romy Schneider
LiveFeelingBornParisOrder
In the U.K., my mother had been the breadwinner. I'd seen my parents side by side. In Saudi Arabia, my mother was basically rendered disabled. She was unable to drive, dependent on my dad for everything. The religious zealotry was so suffocating.
Mona Eltahawy
MotherParentsDriveSheEverything
Everyone talks about age, but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.
Lisa Leslie
WorkAgeWinningWork EthicNever
The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better.
Jay Roach
SuccessSurpriseBetterAudienceUs
When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a book together the way you would a jigsaw puzzle.
Janine di Giovanni
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I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with my video camera, it can only record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that's the greatest challenge that I have.
Jonas Mekas
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I have seven uncles, and my dad played bass, they had a band together, that was the family band. And of course as the cousins got older, including myself, we joined a family band. All the cousins played. That's my heritage.
Jon Batiste
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I write plays and poetry at the same time, and I'm always refining, but I'm not obsessive about it. It's what I like to do, what I've always wanted to do.
Derek Walcott
TimePoetryWriteSameAlwaysLike
People want development, modern thinking. They want to encourage and support research in agriculture and other fields.
Sharad Pawar
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