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“To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.”
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“A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.”
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“The only truly safe thing you can do is to try over and over again. To go for it, to get rejected, to repeat, to strive, to wish. Without rejection there is no frontier, there is no passion, and there is no magic.”
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“I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to”
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“Fair or not, it always sucks when everyone wanders back from Sundance talking about how bad the movies were.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“The State should have made sure the money given to the NGOs was used according to a global plan for Haiti; not doing whatever they want. They should be supervised and have to report and make sure the money is being used properly. They are here, but we are seeing no results.”
Source : "Haiti’s Candidate Michel Martelly Talks About the Election, Fraud, and the Future". Interview with Georgianne Nienaber, www.huffingtonpost.com.
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“You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach. The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic. I have reached a nirvana of negativity. I can look futility in the face and still see promise in the stars.”
Source : "Farewell Sebastian Horsley: a true bohemian" by Emily Hill, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2010.
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“Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.”