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A career is born in public, talent in privacy.
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A career is born in public, talent in privacy.
Success definitely brings on loneliness. People think you're lucky, that you have everything. They think you can go anywhere and do anything, but that's not the point. One hungers for the basic stuff.
I've never been afraid to fail.
My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was fifty years old. But at that time I felt as though I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.
Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
Strength and success, they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.
That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of.
Popularity? It's glory's small change.
Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.