Quotes

There are women in every genre having a lot of success. Why not celebrate that?

With every record I put out, I got a bit more success, a bigger following in cities I would play in, and occasionally a bit of radio play.

I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless.

I feel like it's my responsibility not to lose weight, to be honest. I'm a bright, successful woman who isn't stick-thin.

My dad was very successful as a journalist, so I didn't want to be one. I wanted to be a novelist.

Being a success in the world, having total control of one's life, is about being able to take or leave things.

I don't believe in a recipe for success. You have to work hard; you may not always get it right - you have to bounce back from situations, and you have to be really focused and determined. It's important to have fun as well. Work shouldn't be a torture.

In Kenya, crime and terrorism are deeply linked, not least by the failure of successive Kenyan governments to control either.

There are really only a handful of directors who have a final cut clause in Hollywood. You only get that power if you've made a couple of hundred-million-dollar successes.

Books written by boys are given very different treatment to those written by girls: they're even given very different covers. People also expect, in this YA-booming world, girls to be less experimental than boys: girls are achieving a lot of success, but they're confined.

I am a great believer in jobs for teens. They teach important life lessons, build character, and inflict just the right amount of humiliation necessary for future success in the working world.

I think when you have some success as a kid, your notion of being a good actor is pleasing the director, doing exactly what they tell you to do.

Good management has helped me find much of the success I've got.

What always drove me was my curiosity. That's what made me join Booking and not be afraid to leave a very successful job and then go into a startup.

I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

Alan Jay Lerner needed a hit. The Broadway lyricist and librettist was a decade removed from his greatest successes when his partnership with composer Frederick Loewe produced something approaching unholy alchemy.

I passed my classes because I displayed effort, not because I learned math. But how can we help young people understand life rarely gives partial credit for effort, especially if that effort doesn't lead to understanding or success?

Once the country voted for Brexit, I wanted the prime minister to make a success of it, but I knew that unpicking 45 years of entwinement with the E.U. would be impossible without our elected lawmakers being fully involved.

You have to respect what money and success gives you, then have the responsibility that goes with that.

I have become the person I am today, as a result of both the successes and the scars in my life.

I am a proponent of investing in infrastructure... and, if we can use state resources to make ProvPort more prosperous and successful, then that will benefit the whole state.

We may have broken up at the height of our fame, but it was not the height of our success.

Commercial success certainly helps pay the bills.

We always thought if 'Beauty and the Beat' sold even 100,000 copies, we'd be real happy and a successful group, so when it reached a million... Hey, we just laughed about it.