About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.
Tommy Lasorda

The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.
Magic Johnson

No one has ever bought me underwear, and I'm a little bummed about that. Maybe it's not such a big deal any more.
Sandra Bullock

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
Edith Wharton

He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.
Edith Wharton

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.
Nicholas Sparks

I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.
Raymond Chandler

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.
Anna Freud

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?
Charlie Sheen

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.
Charlie Sheen

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.
Henry Rollins

Because Ritchie Valens WAS the real deal. He was only starting, but in the time he spent in the business, he made big impact. I don't know if anybody could have made a bigger one.
Waylon Jennings

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
Waylon Jennings

White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.
Nikki Giovanni

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.
Gene Hackman

Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of a fair deal.
Francis Ford Coppola

Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
Natalie Wood

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Doris Lessing

I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while.
Sebastian Bach