I've known lots of people that are talented and nothing happens. It's not about talent, it's relentless drive. - Downtown Julie Brown - Quotesmemo.com

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Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at risk of arrest and prosecution, the United States will be most reluctant to act in order to curb aggression or prevent genocide. So the effect of the court may well be to diminish, not increase, the numbers of (in the words of the UN Secretary General) 'innocents of distant wars and conflicts'.

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Downtown Julie Brown

I've known lots of people that are talented and nothing happens. It's not about talent, it's relentless drive.

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Your work is a separate thing from you. You are this person who has your friends and your life, and you have to see the separation. If you see the separation between your work and yourself it's so much easier.

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I think the obsession with wanting to change yourself is crazy over the top.

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There was plenty of dysfunction in my family and I went to Catholic School with these psychotic nuns. I would always try to be funny to lighten the mood.

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Be relentless and then you'll break through.

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I love Kathy Griffin, I think she's brilliant, but for me, there is a line when I go OK, that's too much.

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Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at risk of arrest and prosecution, the United States will be most reluctant to act in order to curb aggression or prevent genocide. So the effect of the court may well be to diminish, not increase, the numbers of (in the words of the UN Secretary General) 'innocents of distant wars and conflicts'.

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