Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success, a whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve! - Andrew Carnegie
I was thinking about being more global in my work, which means trying more foreign countries and working with foreign filmmakers, hoping they would give me a new take on my work, a new point of view, reinvent me in some way. - Nicolas Cage
I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes -- which is what I always try to do in every movie -- then I feel like I'm doing my job. - Nicolas Cage
My father used to say to me, "It doesn't matter what the profession is, but if they're the best in their field, it will always be fascinating to watch." And I said, "Really, dad? Even like someone who makes pencils?" "Even someone who makes pencils, it will be fascinating to watch. - Nicolas Cage
I knew what my job was; it was to go out and meet the people and love them. - Diana, Princess of Wales
People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me. - Diana, Princess of Wales
I would like to be rather more special, and I would like to be understood in an honest way rather than in a vague way.
It's the way I study - to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.
I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do. - Nicolas Cage
We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression.
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