Real invention is a process of repeated, crushing failure that leads, very rarely, to a success. If you want to succeed faster, there's nothing for it but to fail faster and better.
I went being unemployed for three years to being the lead in a British feature in the days when we only made two a year, 1990. It was ridiculous really.
I understand what my gift is, which is making people laugh, hopefully. It's more on that level. I don't need to be a leading man, I'm fine with that.
'Prom' is a movie that follows a bunch of high-schoolers' lives leading up to the prom, the climax of the movie. It focuses all their struggles and the social pressures that prom creates on their lives.
No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
We should go forward in courts and Congress with investigations into post-9/11 interrogations and the decisions leading to them.
The facts are always friendly, every bit of evidence one can acquire, in any area, leads one that much closer to what is true.
You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright.
Maxim 18: If the officers are leading from in front, watch out for an attack from the rear. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.
May your divinity, Lord, take pleasure in me and lead me above the world to be with you.
I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.
I decided to do the maximum to hold onto the lead for as long as possible. That is why I pushed so hard from the beginning. I was at 100 percent concentration.
Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to terrorism cannot be ignored.
Dogma is a defence against the brain’s capacity for free thought based on the fear that such thought might lead to a scary place.
It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.
If I lead the field in any way, it is in the area of curricula development, study guides and other teaching materials.
Don’t let your misfortune push you over the cliff, but let your dreams lead you toward the stars.
between hero and devil, with side you choice? i like to be a devil... king because this world are too peaceful, that will lead to no hero when there no devil to defeat
