Quotes About Persistence

I really wanted a No. 1 single from my first album, but I would not do anything different. It was real and honest and I didn't pretend anything.

It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed.

There was one film that I really wanted. This was a long time ago; it was a film called 'Fracture.' Ryan Gosling ended up doing it with Anthony Hopkins. It wasn't a giant box-office success, but I really enjoyed the script, and I enjoyed the character. I got pretty close and was kind of disappointed it didn't go my way.

I'm usually a pretty intense person. Give me an inch, and I'm going to go.

You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good.

When you're out here grinding away, firing at some flags, firing at the middle of the green, you just got to be very patient, and I always do a pretty good job of that in the majors.

I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.

I'm pretty good at weaseling my way into a job, even if I have no business being there.

The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.

I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.

When I was out there on the floor, I think I did pretty good for myself... I've never really had enough time to play and actually improve.

As a striker, your job is mostly to forget. When you have someone like Vidic marking you, and it's misery for 89 minutes, all you have to do is forget everything. Forget the 89 minutes. Because in the 90th minute, you might finally get your chance. I have been pretty good at this in my career.

You know what, I was one of the top 25 amateurs in the world. I had a pretty good college career.

I'm not a singer or a dancer, my Broadway dreams are ridiculous.

I grew up wanting to be a ballet dancer.

I always wanted to be a dancer. I danced for maybe 16 years. So I would have loved to have been a dancer in the past.

As a dancer, you get trained to carry on no matter what happens. You have to stay professional.

How many dancers in their life get a job that will last 15 years? Not many.

I've always worked very hard. I think dancers always do.

I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together.

I've been dancing forever; since I remember, that's what I've been doing.

I'm not, like, Daniel Day Lewis. Yet. I will get there!

I've been turned down by so many things in Hollywood, and the world itself is only getting darker.

When I started playing darts and watching more darts on TV I would say someone like Trina Gulliver definitely inspired me to carry on and keep playing.