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I will not be discouraged by failure I will not be elated by success.

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Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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Category: Failure

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics such as sex eye color age and Social Security number.
  • 2. You get to a certain age and you just want to prove that you can still rock – that you've still got it.
  • 3. With age you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap and I see why. There is a certain slickness – there's nothing better than an amazing musical but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had.
  • 2. Moby Dick – that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed that's how my book begins too but I hadn't noticed the parallel before two characters forced to share a bed reluctantly.
  • 3. But I'm trying not to be cynical – I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.

3 Anger

  • 1. There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
  • 2. I also had to work through the violation of my date rape my unhealthy relationships with men my anger toward the people involved in the scandal and those who exploited me afterwards.
  • 3. But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.
  • 2. The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken – it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.
  • 3. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union they insist there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which in my book is a good definition for friendship.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
  • 2. But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard which didn't last very long.
  • 3. They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
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