Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to direct. Films are very difficult.
I don't want to be a Michael Moore-style artist, which is not to disparage Michael Moore. But he seems rather unsuccessful at winning people over who don't already agree with him.
Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.
Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often unsuccessful. People now want, above all, appreciation of their uniqueness.
I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.
I've been making bronze sculptures for a long time. My sculptures are wholly unsuccessful and uncommercial. No one is even the remotest bit interested in them. So it's almost like my hobby.
I hate last-minute shopping, it's always unsuccessful.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
I would like to produce films, but I feel I am an unsuccessful producer. That's the fact.
I think the periods of being unsuccessful have made me a better actor.
Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
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