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"I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer."
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"When you focus on diligence and hard work miracle will come to you."
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"You want to achieve your dreams early, right? I know of only one back door; that's HARDWORK. Only few people use that entrance so the advantage is that there is no or less traffic there!"
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"The Western world's sole objective seems to be success, status, security, self-indulgence, pleasure, and comfort."
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"Success is deliberate. It doesn't come as an accident. What you work for is what you achieve. Faith without work is a vain hope."
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"I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success."
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"If you really want to grow great, you need to avoid costly pleasures and preserve your future treasures."
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"The positioning of the mind is what makes the difference between the failures and the successes."
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"You multiply your life when you invest it."
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"Christians are becoming disengaged in following the Scripture that tells us not to conform to the world's system."
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"Success has ruined many a man."
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"Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop."
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"I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live."
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"I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable."
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"I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation."
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"I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written."
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"I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about."
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"I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer."
Success

"The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son."
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"I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives."
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"If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself, Now, every day for 90 days you have to write a song; good, bad or indifferent. So that was really helpful."
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