Successful Quotes - Page 31

• A lot of "successful" people are tragedies, because what they've accomplished aren't the things they wanted. Intentionally create the question "how" instead of accidentally relenting to the question of "should." If I'm not intentionally choosing a good attitude, I'm almost always unintentionally choosing a negative one.

  Rory Vaden

  Attitude, People, Tragedy

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• Although my Dad was a talented calligrapher and both of my younger brothers were successful, I was the first one in my family to graduate from high school.

  Betty Dodson

  Brother, Dad, School

  "Betty Dodson’s Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• When I found out after that first successful exhibition that the gallery wanted me to do another show like the first one, I come out two years later with four 6-foot drawings of classical nudes masturbating. The gallery director flipped the freak out!

  Betty Dodson

  Years, Two, Drawing

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• The number of people who have either gotten married or had kids or started dating or just made great friends over Instagram is countless. I think we're the only platform that continues to be successful in bringing people together in real life for these real relationships.

  Kevin Systrom

  Real, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Having a company that's successful is a wonderful platform to do new things. You don't have to raise money for it; you can take profits from the company and pump them into new business.

  Kevin Systrom

  Pumps, Wonderful, Profit

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There aren't many other labels who I can say are that successful, and can give me as much as 4AD gives me, and still have such a great roster.

  Grimes

  Giving, Labels, Rosters

  "Always Waiting For The Shivers To Happen: Grimes Interviewed". Interview with Angus Finlayson, thequietus.com. May 25, 2012.

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• I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!

  Grimes

  Thinking, Guitar, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• One of my favorite teams of all time is Fran and Barry. I just thought Fran and Barry last season were just incredible and they just sort of went against all odds and were very successful.

  Tom Ford

  Team, Odds, Lasts

  "Exclusive The Amazing Race Interview: Tom and Terry". Interview with Staci Krause, www.ign.com. October 10, 2006.

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• I would imagine after the first recording session with Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and Atlantic Records I began to realize that this is going to be like this for the rest of my life and I knew that what, what they were doing was going to be successful because with each session that we would do, it would get better and better and better, the songs would become better, the, ah, the feeling of success was there and we were all in the middle of that as well.

  Ben E. King

  Song, Feelings, Get Better

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• There are a lot of male egos out there that cannot deal with highly successful women. And it's their problem.

  Sheila Johnson

  Ego, Males, Problem

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• To a certain extent that happens with all kinds of successful writers and artists and celebrities, but there is also something about the form of memoir that creates an eerie reader space of intimacy that is only "real" in the space of the text.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Real, Artist, Eerie

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you stop making excuses and you work hard and go hard you will be very successful.

  DJ Khaled

  Hard Work, Excuse, Go Hard

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• The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be successful, and really it's the wrong thing. It's not a profession.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Writing, Careers, America

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Education is huge for me. I went to public school until I turned thirteen, and was lucky enough to afford college once I became successful as an actress. I cannot believe that quality education costs as much as it does in this country. Ghetto Film School is a remarkable public high school in New York City where students get to learn to express themselves through filmmaking, and have hands-on access to equipment.

  Julia Stiles

  Country, New York, Believe

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• Successful people inspire me, and I don't mean just in their career but people who have amazing families, or who have made a difference, or followed their dreams.

  Benjamin Stone

  Dream, Mean, Careers

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There is a long and interesting tradition of really marginal left-field music that becomes commercially successful. And I will, for a brief minute, fit into that tradition.

  Moby

  Long, Interesting, Fields

  "David Bowie EW Cover: Inside David Bowie and Moby's out-of-this-world 2002 tour". Interview with Jeff Gordinier, ew.com. January 11, 2016.

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• If you look at the history of popular music, the most successful musicians have started out being really marginal and esoteric. The Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Madonna. Prince. Bruce Springsteen. Fleetwood Mac. David Bowie. Public Enemy. Nirvana.

  Moby

  Being Real, Enemy, Musician

  "David Bowie EW Cover: Inside David Bowie and Moby's out-of-this-world 2002 tour". Interview with Jeff Gordinier, ew.com. January 11, 2016.

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• I think that every band is different, and in fact that's one of the biggest problems with the old-school music industry is that... one band would be successful according to a certain approach, and then every other band in the label gets sent down the same tube.

  Emily Haines

  School, Thinking, Band

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Tom Cruise is one of the most successful actors of all time.

  Ezra Koenig

  Actors, Cruise, All Time

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• A show that's been successful that been on a while, chances are it's going to stay that way. At least it's going to maintain some kind of standard. But when a show begins, there's no telling. Even after 13 shows or a whole year, you don't know what will become of it.

  Gary Cole

  Years, Way, Chance

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Reading is also a creative activity if you're doing it right. You can learn more from a story that's left the tracks than from a successful story.

  John Dufresne

  Reading, Track, Creative

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The more difficult question for me is, do you remain successful for what you had done? I don't know. I think success is in your own eyes. But, I don't really want to ever feel like I've achieved success. Because then I'd be spoiled. I want to feel like I need to keep doing more. Maybe I get "content," "settled," and "success" confused. I never want to settle, but I would love to be content.

  Derek Waters

  Confused, Eye, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You know when you're doing something right and when you're doing something wrong. As long as you feel like you're doing something right, and you're getting rewarded, then you're successful. But, if you're judging it on, Well, if I had that, I'd be successful - that doesn't work. I think doing what you love is success. Pretty cheesy. But it's true.

  Derek Waters

  Love Is, Thinking, Doing What You Love

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Look out for each other. I think the more we support each other as a community, the more successful we will be. I'm a part of Film Fatales, a collective of women directors who meet to share advice and provide support for each other's projects. I think the more we can build an old girls' network to rival the old boys' network, the better off we will be.

  Sian Heder

  Girl, Thinking, Boys

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The Sarah Palin choice both its timing and the fact that it was her, it was really an audacious strategic move by the McCain campaign to try to change the trajectory of the 2008 presidential race and the initial launch was very successful. She didn`t withstand the scrutiny very well though and the close questioning.

  Rachel Maddow

  Moving, Race, Choices

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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