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"I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on."
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"Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value, instead of expecting a man's love to provide you with value."
"The secret of success lies in the perfection of one's gift and working frantically towards God's given potential."
"A goal should make you feel excited when you think about it."
"Success demands a price that only a few are willing to pay ... blood, flesh, time, money, pride, heartbreak and energy. Anyone who has ever succeeded has the battle scars to prove the sacrifices they've made."
"Is the any success without an effort?"
"I have known many people who have been incredibly successful in life. It was not necessarily because they had immense talent, brilliance, an expensive education, or exemplary skills. It was because they had an extraordinary attitude to take on life with love, passion, conviction, consistency, and hard work. What they all had in common was getting their minds right and becoming positive thinkers-which activated their potential to achieve remarkable things and build strong relationships."
"Choose something which is better and from which you can learn something, ... here I am going to give few examples.CSI:Miami - Good ChoiceDexter - Another Good CHoiceBreaking Bad - Another Good ChoicePerson Of Interest - Another Good Choice."
"When you accomplish the impossible then you can achieve anything."
"Making name for yourself requires you not to stop and consider you have done enough but rather continue to move forward."
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"I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table."
"My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage."
"I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels."
"I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood."
"I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on."
"As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains."
"Probably induced by the asthma, I started reading and writing early on, my literary efforts from the age of about nine running chiefly to poetry and plays."
"In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school."
"When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge."
"Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved."
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