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Maude Adams

"When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure."

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"With failure, you just try again."

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"Failure is a word unknown to me."

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"Life is full of screwups," he said, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corner. "You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence."

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"The very reasons sometimes that you make a film are the reasons for its failure."

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"The failure of academic feminists to recognize difference as a crucial strength is a failure to reach beyond the first patriarchal lesson. In our world, divide and conquer must become define and empower."

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"The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections."

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"The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council."

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"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."

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"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

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"Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure."

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