Michael Korda
Michael Korda
Michael Kordais an English-born writer and novelist who was editor-in-Chief of Simon & Schuster in New York City...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
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If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there.
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The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of failure and poverty, traps millions of people in positions where any kind of success seems impossible to contemplate, and in which failure itself is a kind of passive rebellion against their own misery and the social system which created it in the first place.To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
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To succeed, we must first believe that we can.
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What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe.
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Very well observed and touching story, wonderful eye for detail and a pleasure to read,
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My books are based on observing others, not myself.
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I'm always astonished when I go into Barnes & Noble at the number of people buying books, of course, but also at the variety of books they do buy and the extent to which they are not the big bestsellers.
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The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did.
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It strikes me that people want to be engaged, and that those who go into a bookstore in a time of crisis are much more likely to be looking for explanation than for escapism.
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I never met Peter O'Toole, but he one was of those rare actors whose success was defined by a single role. His incandescent performance in David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia' is one that nobody who saw it will ever forget.
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This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
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Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
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An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.
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The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.