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"Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard."
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"The secret of success lies in the perfection of one's gift and working frantically towards God's given potential."
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"A goal should make you feel excited when you think about it."
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"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."
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"Is the any success without an effort?"
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"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."
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"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."
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"Try to be the best even if you can't be the best, you will be among the betters."
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"Winning or losing achieves the same result--change."
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"Have a clear goal and plan. Waste no effort in your journey. Be strong, committed, and effective and you will experience a level of success few will ever know."
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"Look what we've done so far. We're pretty good at the impossible."
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"Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard."
Success
"I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit."
Creativity
"I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be."
Writing
"In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc."
Experience
"I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique."
Honesty
"Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great."
People
"Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization."
Art
"If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire."
Writing
"The first version of The Beautiful Room Is Empty was the first mss. I'd ever submitted to New York editors."
Writing
"As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together."
Identity
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