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I wanted to do an hour-long show, and I wanted to something that was dramatic and sometimes funny and humorous, as well. I'm just delighted to have this opportunity to be a part of this project.
Ron Glass
When you experience a failure as a leader, don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.
Naveen Jain
Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.
Roger von Oech
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I got into acting for the chance to be many different people and many different characters. I love hiding in a role and doing the research. If there is an opportunity to change my body, I will change my body. I'll slip in and disguise myself in a role. That is a really big treat for me.
Ashley Bell
No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way.
Nick Nolte
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Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.


Charles Lamb
With engineering, I view this year's failure as next year's opportunity to try it again. Failures are not something to be avoided. You want to have them happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly.
Gordon Moore
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Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.


Mother Teresa
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The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.


Publilius Syrus
In my early writing, all of my characters were exactly the same person. They all spoke the same, made the same types of jokes, reacted the same, etc. I think they were all just me in disguise.
James Dashner
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Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.


Robert H. Schuller
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Sometimes you just know what you're placed on this earth to do.


Christina Aguilera
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With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
Christian Marclay
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Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.
James E. Faust
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Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.


Phil McGraw
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I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.
Tony Kushner
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Sometimes ideas feel like they were already there, and that you're just discovering them.


Stephenie Meyer
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Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
D. H. Lawrence
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If you want to go on the floor, go in disguise because otherwise you won't be able to. I would just put on a full Darth Vader costume and walk through Comic-Con so I can actually check it out and enjoy it as opposed to being approached by everyone, which is lovely, but it gets very difficult to enjoy because there's so many people there.
Kunal Nayyar
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I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.


Paul O'Grady
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