"I was a science fiction junkie for a long time."
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"Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.“
-William Hurt
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"Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge."
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"Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity."
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"Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful."
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"The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity is just amazing which I find to be fundamentally offensive as a human being."
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"Failure is not fatal victory is not success."
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"Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure."
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"It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure."
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"Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life."
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