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Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

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I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work. ↗

— Walter Hill

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I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies. ↗

— Walter Hill

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And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

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Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

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I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

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I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

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