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• I don't think ambition was ever my strong suit. I always wanted to be successful, because you want to be good at what you do, but I've definitely always enjoyed playing a supporting part. I really enjoy the success of others.

  Selma Blair

  Strong, Ambition, Thinking

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• People get famous now for I-don't-know-what. People have reality shows because they're a Hollywood socialite, and these things become very successful and they generate a shitload of money for the company. And it's multiplying, to where you're literally looking into your next door neighbor's bathroom with reckless abandon. It is like watching a fire. You can't take your eyes off of it.

  Johnny Depp

  Eye, Reality, Fire

  Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2014.

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• The way you set up for a sequel is by having a successful film. The focus is on making a successful film, and making a film that travels around the world, and that people enjoy and have fun with, and that people are able to escape with.

  Peter Berg

  Fun, People, Focus

  "Peter Berg Talks BATTLESHIP, the FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Movie, and the Upcoming NBC Series PRIME SUSPECT". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 01, 2011.

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• I suppose you could never say never, but my experience would tell me that the most successful players in the world are gonna come from an environment that is more competitive at an early age.

  Andre Agassi

  Player, Age, World

  "Why Does America Suck at Tennis?". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. August 29, 2011.

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• I know that the way to be a really successful writer is to write the same kind of book over and over again. Find the kind of thing that people like and just write one of those over and over again. I don't do that. I just keep doing different things.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Writing, People

  Interview with Phillip Duncan, www.dvdtalk.com.

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• You can't have self confidence without some real skills that enable you to be successful.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Real, Self Confidence, Skills

  Source: www.afb.org

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• There are many directors in the middle range who've made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who've had some successes and some failures. I suppose my life would be smoother if I wasn't almost totally enamored of the latter category.

  Jack Nicholson

  Directors, Would Be, Range

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• It was challenging to understand what was necessary to successfully carry out all the training simulations that we, as crewmen, would experience, and make a very successful use of that training and education.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Challenges, Training, Use

  "Ask Me Anything" with Buzz Aldrin, www.reddit.com.

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• Sometimes things work out, sometimes they don't. I never know how successful a movie is going to be - when you make a movie you're always hoping for the best.

  Christopher Walken

  Work Out, Sometimes, Hoping For The Best

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• When I started my goal was to make a successful underground movie. I started making movies in the mid-60s. Underground cinema then only lasted about two or three years.

  John Waters

  Two, Years, Goal

  Interview with Jonathan Ross, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 1998.

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• If you're in a successful play and the play is working well - I mean successful because the audiences like it, the audiences respond well - it's a pleasure.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Mean, Play, Pleasure

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• What surprised me about directing is how much I loved it and how happy I am to be on the set. I love coming to work in the morning. What I realized is that I never loved acting. I don't love being in the hair and makeup chair. I don't [love] being in costume. To me the strangest thing is that I've just spent the majority of my life in one aspect of this business, and because I was fortunate enough to become successful I never questioned whether I felt at home and found out later in life that I'm much happier directing.

  Angelina Jolie

  Morning, Home, Makeup

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• The biggest thing you need to be successful with it is a quarterback who wants to be involved in the decision-making process and not just merely want to execute plays sent in to him.

  Tony Dungy

  Play, Decision, Needs

  Interview with Aaron Schatz, www.footballoutsiders.com. May 11, 2010.

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• After I began to make some money, my brain-damaged accountant put me in one business after another that went bad. The only one that panned out was a small bank, an old Scottish firm with London offices in Pall Mall. I was a director. We sold out to a larger bank. That was the only successful venture I've had, apart from acting.

  Sean Connery

  Office, Brain, Acting

  "Sean Connery Learns 'The Chicago Way'". Interview with Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. September 21, 1986.

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• I have had extreme ups and downs. The biggest thing I learned after I broke my wrist is to never give up. Nothing in life will ever come easy. It depends on how you deal with those obstacles and how you overcome those obstacles. If you can overcome them, you're a stronger person. If you make mistakes along the way, as long as you never make that same mistake again, you're a successful person.

  Michael Phelps

  Giving Up, Mistake, Long

  Source: www.parenting.com

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• Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. A successful business owner never stops learning. They educate themselves on the things they need to learn, and they never stop growing. They never arrive at a certain point and think, ahhh... now I don't need to learn anymore.

  Jim Rohn

  Thinking, Self, Needs

  Source: becomeanonlinetutor.com

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• The ebb and flow as an artist is a bizarre experience, for sure. I was lucky enough to become successful pretty young - in late '79, 1980 - with a body of work that got recognized and became an archetype.

  Robert Longo

  Artist, Ebb And Flow, Body

  Interview with Keanu Reeves, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2014.

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• It's fascinating to imagine two successful writers in one house. But when you think about it, it isn't very unusual. In fact, so many writers have writer spouses.

  Heidi Julavits

  Thinking, Two, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Talent is one thing, it is how you nurture and develop it, and never walk away from it. You can be rich, successful, you win awards, but it can always be better.

  Kevin Spacey

  Winning, Awards, Talent

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.

  Anne Lamott

  Book, Years, Want

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. March 2012.

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• You never know how a film will play, whether it will be successful or not, or whether it will touch the audience. I always said to myself that whatever happens, big audience or small, that I would not let the results have an impact on my way of working. But it would be a bit silly for me to change my methods when I have a big success. That means my methods work well.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Silly, Mean, Play

  Source: www.midnighteye.com

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• Morale - the will to win, the fighting heart - are the honored hallmarks of the football coach and player. Likewise, they are characteristic of the enterprising executive, the successful troop leader, the established artist and the dedicated teacher and scientist.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Sports, Football, Teacher

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• And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all the writers that as many of us as possible be successful.

  Isabel Allende

  Important, Benefits, Gains

  "Big Think Interview With Isabel Allende". Interview with Priya George, bigthink.com. May 3, 2010.

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• Company culture is the backbone of any successful organization.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Organization, Culture, Backbone

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• Black folks are judged by quantity, not quality. It's a decimal point or figure. How different is that from slavery? There's no moral code, it's just about successful business for America.

  Chuck D

  America, Black, Quality

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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