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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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. You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
  • 2. Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere turning its back on the political realm.
  • 3. Young man the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

2 Amazing

  • 1. My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
  • 2. My public image is so low-key but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.
  • 3. There are a lot of people with a lot of money and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

3 Anger

  • 1. An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
  • 2. Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred.
  • 3. The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.
  • 2. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.
  • 3. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

5 Architecture

  • 1. An important work of architecture will create polemics.
  • 2. The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
  • 3. So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
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