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In racing, Sonja Henie never saw anyone else finish. They're always behind her. So she got the habit.
Gail Patrick has clicked in whatever she's started. Do you think she could be Governor of Alabama?
HAS it ever occurred to you that the reason a lot of players have achieved fame and fortune in Hollywood is because they have acquired, so to speak, "the habit of success"— that they are screen stars because they also reached the top in some other field of endeavor before tackling the movies, and are only applying the same drive and initiative to acting that they applied to whatever pursuits they tackled before?
Having read so far, perhaps I should stop for a moment and warn you before going any further that this article is not intended—Heaven forbid— to tell you how to win success in the movies in 2000 or 3000 words but that its one and only purpose is to point out by some concrete example that a lot of outstanding players are Hollywood champions because they were also champions in some other division, to use a boxing term, and that, judging from their records, the chances are they would also wear crowns in any other field they entered.
No matter what you think of the "how to A\in success" advisers or the boys who write the "as we have thought, so we have become" messages, the fact remains that there is something to be said in favor of the philosophy which urges that "we are what we have made ourselves" and that the will to be successful or even beautiful is enormously powerful.
This same will to be beautiful which
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certain women possess, is also evident in the will to succeed among many of today's most successful players, and because of that will to succeed they have formed the habit of success that has landed them on the top of the heap.
Take W. C. Fields, for instance. When
I last saw Mr. Fields in Hollywood, his chief concern was not about pictures but how to make a success in television when it finally arrived. When I asked Mr. Fields if he missed the old days in the theatre this is what he said: "No, I don't miss the old days and I'm never going back on the
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