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Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

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If you call failures experiments you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

I'd rather have huge success and huge failures than travel in the middle of the road.

It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.

After my spectacular failures I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.

If I had permitted my failures or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

Well first of all it's a business and it's a tough business and you have to have the strength to survive all the set backs all the failures that make this a mean business that's getting meaner and meaner every year in my opinion.

The sports page records people's accomplishments the front page usually records nothing but man's failures.

I always turn to the sports pages first which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.

Religion oh just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

On balance my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked and I never held myself all that low when I had failures.

Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.

Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction not an ethical problem.

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best but I do realise the common denominator is me it's something I'm doing.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

You can't live your life blaming your failures on your parents and what they did or didn't do for you. You're dealt the cards that you're dealt. I realised it was a waste of time to be angry at my parents and feel sorry for myself.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is with a new game every day and that's the way baseball is.

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

For four years I listened to stories of intelligence failures and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system but that the system is so arcane.

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.

One of the great intellectual failures of the American intelligence community and especially the counterterrorism community is to assume if someone hasn't attacked us it's because he can't or because we've defeated him.