Quotes About Dedication

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline, really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore, and that's no good. To make art you need to be inspired.

I think it's criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they're paid.

That's how you win these battles over long periods of time. You continue to fight. You continue to bring it up. You continue to message it to your constituents and to America in general.

I grew up in a military family, and my dad was gone for long periods of time. Families make it work because you know you care for each other.

Cricket keeps me away from classes, and home, for long periods at a time. But talking to friends and family helps, it is a sacrifice I have to make, because I love cricket.

I didn't see my son walk for the first time. I've left my wife at home with two kids for long periods of time to go to training camps, to foreign countries.

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

In 1957, I decided: write or perish.

The rock n' roll lifestyle did have its perks, but it wasn't all limos and parties in the early days.

America is the future. I am committed to the States. I'm guessing this is going to be a permanent move.

I never believed that my service in the U.S. Congress should become a permanent career.

Of course I see a future with Varun. I don't get into things if they are not permanent at all.

To be in a position where an organization like the Bulls creates a bust of you that will permanently be displayed in a building like the United Center says it all. It's hard to put into words because it is such an honor. It's great to know that something like that will be around forever.

I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.

Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.

Having kids and a relationship at such an early age definitely built up my hunger and perseverance to succeed.

It's a combination of how much efforts you put in, how much you're working on a daily basis on your goals and it also has to do with a bit of luck. It's difficult but you've to be very patient. The main thing is perseverance.

I have always been one to encourage perseverance.

If you have perseverance, you're going to be able to push through a lot of things into some really great areas.

The youths of Bihar are second to none when it comes to talent, hard work and perseverance.

Being one of the few African American women to make it to this level in a classical ballet company, the level of American Ballet Theatre, takes a lot of perseverance.