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Helen Hayes

"Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline."

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"Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline."

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"Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment."

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"Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81."

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"Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities."

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"You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare."

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"I think my playing has been orchestral throughout the years, and this is another way of expressing that. But I primarily see it as the ultimate accomplishment of a musician. Composing makes me feel like I've finally gotten all the way up the ladder as a musician."

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"I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment."

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"Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over."

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"As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along."

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"One of the most important accomplishments of the Caucus is raising awareness with law enforcement and communities nationwide on the issues of child safety and Internet safety."

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"Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment."

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"The story of a love is not important-what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity."
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"Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity."
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"People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me."
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"I'm leaving the screen because I don't think I am very good in the pictures and I have this beautiful dream that I'm elegant on the stage."
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"Stardom can be a gilded slavery."
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"We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too."
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"The worst constructed play is a Bach fugue when compared to life."
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"I cry out for order and find it only in art."
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"Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it."
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