"I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were."

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Katherine Dunham

#Successful Quotes #Belief Quotes #Being Successful Quotes

“I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.”
“Only to the white man was nature a "wilderness" and only to him was the land "infested" with "wild" animals and "savage" people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery. Not until the hairy man from the east came and with brutal frenzy heaped injustices upon us and the families that we loved was it "wild" for us. When the very animals of the forest began fleeing from his approach, then it was that for us the "Wild West" began.”

Source : Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.38, U of Nebraska Press
“When you make a movie it's always interesting, because you end up in places you never would as a normal visitor or tourist.”
“Now our world is at the present time firmly in the grip of a mechanical monster, whose head - if you want to call it that - is the World Engineer's Complex. That monster is opposed to us and can keep all too good a tab on us through every purchase we make with our credit numbers, every time we use the public transportation or eat a meal or rent a place to live.”

Source : Gordon R. Dickson (1963). “No Room for Man”, New York : MacFadden-Bartell Corporation
“New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Sorrow eats your heart and courage.”
“I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.”
“I think you always want to be open to things... it's just the matter of finding something I believe in, finding a character I believe in, and I think that's the way it should always be. I'm looking for things that excite me.”

Source : "'Happy Endings' Guest James Wolk Invigorated by Comedic Turn, Open to Pilots" by Michael O'Connell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 8, 2012.

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