"Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need……" — Alec Guinness
"Failure has a thousand explanations. Success doesn't need one."
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Alec Guinness
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16 Quotes by Alec Guinness
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A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
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A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.
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I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor.
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That's no moon. It's a space station
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Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men: courage, and hope for the…
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I shrivel up every time someone mentions Star Wars to me.
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Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are…
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The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.
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An Actor is an interpreter of other men's words, often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world…
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Best performance of the year: Aston Villa v. Milan, September 1994
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Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.
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An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on…
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More Explanation Quotes
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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.
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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in…
— Charles Babbage
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I'm not satisfied with the explanations I get from tv or from school.
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In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about…
— Dave Barry
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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
— Bruce Barton
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank…
— Warren Beatty
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This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who…
— Tony Campolo
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To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.
— Tony Campolo
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I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They…
— Julia Child
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From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything…
— Eric Clapton
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I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a…
— William J. Clinton
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