"We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option."

-- Gene Kranz

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“Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts.”
“As an actor in-between jobs, it can be hard to stay motivated when you feel like you future is always in someone else's hands. You are always waiting for someone to look at you and say "YES."”

Source : Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.
“courage is simply fear that has said it's prayers!”
“I love it when artists talk about process! I love the movie Comedian.”
“What sparks wars? The will to power, the backbone of human nature. The threat of violence, the fear of violence, or actual violence, is the instrument of this dreadful will. You can see the will to power in bedrooms, kitchens, factories, unions and the borders of states. Listen to this and remember it. The nation state is merely human nature inflated to monstrous proportions. QED, nations are entities whose laws are written by violence. Thus it ever was, so ever shall it be.”
“We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that have lived neither here nor there, consequently anywhere, for we are aboriginal foreigners, transplanted from birth in our respective countries of origin.”
“Autobiography is not important. Authenticity is important. The writer must fire herself through the text, be the molten stuff that welds together disparate elements. I believe there is always exposure, vulnerability, in the writing process, which is not to say it is either confessional or memoir. Simply, it is real.”
“Every failure contains valuable data that will point you in the right direction.”

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