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“I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.”

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Author:Aaliyah

“When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.”

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Author:Dolph Lundgren

“I once threw myself a surprise party on Twitter because I was lonely. It was awesome. Thousands of people showed up and then Wil Wheaton and I made a bunch of monkey-ponies. It was the most successful surprise party I've ever thrown in my life. It was also the only surprise party I've ever thrown in my whole life.”

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Author:Jenny Lawson

“Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the single most important move that a writer who aspires to be successful can make.”

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Author:John Lescroart

“When you make successful movies, everyone on set takes care of you, everybody is so nice and you disconnect from reality.”

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Author:Melanie Laurent

“The mantra of the National Commercial Bank is 'building a better Jamaica.' If this bank is going to be everlastingly successful, it has to take on the ailments of this society.”

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Author:Michael Lee-Chin

“The primary factor in a successful attack is speed.”

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Author:Lord Mountbatten

“Well, I see myself in the same business but a lot more successful and doing more movies maybe behind the camera. I plan to do some growing in this industry and take it as far as I can.”

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Author:Matthew McGrory

“I'm not playing myself. It's a symbolic situation, where I want to introduce a fascist behind the table. I couldn't have had anybody else do that; for it to be successful, I had to do it myself.”

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Author:Mohsen Makhmalbaf

“So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort of like come out of his mother's womb with the highest ratings in the country.”

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Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.”

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Author:Ronnie Montrose

“If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.”

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Author:Jodie Foster

“I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.”

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Author:Vijay Mallya

“You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.”

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Author:Connie Nielsen

“I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.”

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Author:Jimmy Nail

“I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.”

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Author:LeRoy Neiman

“There tends to be a jealousy in England towards countries that are successful.”

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Author:Chris O'Dowd

“I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.”

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Author:George Osborne

“The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you.”

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Author:Mike Oldfield

“I've been semi-successful. I've done all right but I'm not the player I was. Who do I think will win the world championship? John Higgins. Have I been good for snooker? I don't know.”

Thinking Knows World Done Winning Successful Player Championship Snooker

Author:Ronnie O'Sullivan

“I've seen enough successful writers who no longer seem to care when they are recognized with an award, and I think that's just tragic.”

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Author:Louise Penny

“In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.”

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Author:C. Northcote Parkinson

“I think I am about 5 for 500 when it comes to successful ideas vs flops.”

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Author:Jeremy Schoemaker

“I think especially in her position, a highly successful professional woman, it would be a real exception to have an unwed child.”

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Author:Dan Quayle

“I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.”

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Author:Donna Leon

“We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.”

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Author:Adam Osborne

“Danity Kane' was a wonderful group, and like all things, nothing is forever. We had a great run and we were very successful.”

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Author:Aubrey O'Day

“My dad had an eighth grade education, and everything that he did in his life was just stuff that he went out and did - figured out what he needed to know and read. Very successful, a union contractor.”

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Author:Mitch Pileggi

“I'm just considering myself extremely lucky. All I wanted is to have 'Paranormal Activity' be released and become successful. And everything that's happened since then is just an enormous bonus.”

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Author:Oren Peli

“This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.”

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Author:George Papandreou

“He's a family man and a businessman. He spent his career building successful companies. Then, he saved the 2002 Olympics and brought pride to our nation. As governor, he balanced the budget, cut taxes, and created jobs. The president America needs is Mitt Romney!”

“To distract from the president's disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney's career as a successful businessman.”

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Author:Reince Priebus

“I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.”

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Author:Teresa Palmer

“I don't think you can be successful in television without appealing to women. I don't think it's possible. I think that men like women. It doesn't really matter what they do - they love anything. But women don't necessarily like every woman, so I think that's a challenge to get the female audience to not only relate to you but also like you.”

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Author:Maggie Q

“I mean, I really, really love playing solo. Definitely, it's like a labor of love, it's not a huge career. It's not that successful, but it's something I love so much that I'll do it regardless.”

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Author:Amy Ray

“A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than services. American consumers value health care and haircuts as much as washing machines and hair dryers.”

“Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.”

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Author:Donna Rice Hughes

“I think 'All Out of Love' is my favorite song because it's been the most successful. It's been in about 30 movies, it's been a number one record, and it keeps getting played on the radio, it's always somewhere.”

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Author:Graham Russell

“Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real career. I thought you had to have some literary pedigree to be a successful author, the son of Hemingway or Fitzgerald.”

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Author:James Rollins

“OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.”

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Author:Joely Richardson

“I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him.”

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Author:John Shelton Reed

“Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.”

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Author:Pete Rozelle

“I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.”

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Author:Portia de Rossi

“Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I'm just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.”

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Author:Shawn Ryan

“Increased revenues, meaning higher taxes, will be a central element of any successful long-term budget plan, and President Obama is right to insist that the wealthy - the slice of America that has come through the recession in by far the best financial health - should provide those funds.”

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Author:Steven Rattner

“Listen, it's not nice to have your mum kill herself, that is difficult. But at the end of the day, it happened a long time ago. My mother was, I hope, not the reason that I have been successful. It's not as simplistic as 'My mum killed herself; I've got to prove myself.' I was very lucky that my parents took an interest in me...”

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Author:Stuart Rose

“Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.”

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Author:Stuart Rose

“Young men keep telling me they don't 'have it all' either. And they may have a point. But if you define 'having it all' as the opportunity to have a successful career and a family, I'd say this. When a man tells his coworkers he's going to have a child, no one asks him how he'll manage or if he'll be coming back to work.”

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Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter

“It is a tough business but if you get yourself in a situation like I, you can maintain a career over many years. That, to me, is a successful actor.”

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Author:Ray Stevenson

“Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.”

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Author:Aaron Siskind

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