Success is usually the culmination of controlling failure.
SYLVESTER STALLONENothing’s harder than writing. There’s no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There’s tremendous support – you’ve got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it’s all you, and it’s just crippling when people tear up your pages.
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We do two things in life: We race the clock and everything is a struggle. One way or not, it’s a metaphorical battle all of the time.
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The church is the gym of the soul.
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I have tons of regrets, but I think that’s one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.
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Don’t discuss your dreams. Pursue them!
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Every time I’ve failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.
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You’re a disease. And I’m the cure.
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If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there’d be bodies hanging from every tree!
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I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I’ve had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn’t been dull; I’ve been the Hiroshima of love.
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I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
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If you don’t have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.
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That’s what Rocky is all about: pride, reputation, and not being another bum in the neighborhood.
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It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.
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If you’re gonna be a failure, at least be one at something you enjoy.
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At the end of the day, ‘Rocky’ is a love story, and he could never have reached the final bell without Adrian.
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If you’re willing to take the humiliation of sticking your head above the crowd, maybe it’s, you know, the pleasure will be worth the pain.
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