"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."

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Source : Edward Eggleston (1874). “The Circuit Rider: A Tale of the Heroic Age”, p.128

Edward Eggleston

#Failure Quotes #People Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.”
“Confidence is something one acquires. It can come early or late but it is impossible to write without it. Mine came late.”
“I had a caricature view of the guy in the beret with the big megaphone, but a movie director and writer was beyond my role of understanding.”

Source : "Rocking the Boat". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 16, 2013.
“This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best possible security against it, if it should exist.”
“Please, don't hate me because I am beautiful.”
“The art of communication is the language of leadership.”
“It's amazing--my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching mortar back at me, and Jeffery was charging down the driveway with a grenade in his teeth, my parents would say we should stop having this public "discussion".”

Source : Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.120, Scholastic Inc.
“Musicians and artists are not... it's not like politicians or something where you can't really affect them. There's not like this separate caste system where it's like, "I'm the musician, you're the audience. Never the two shall meet." It was a case where it was like, "Hey, you know what? I'm on your level, man."”

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