"Being famous is not something that would make me feel successful - unless one was striving for mediocrity."
-William Hurt
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"Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.“
-William Hurt
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"Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge."
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"But I am not going to live for ever. And the more I know it, the more amazed I am by being here at all."
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"Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful."
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"I was a science fiction junkie for a long time."
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"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."
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