Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
If you look at some shows that have an ugly feel to them, or a nihilistic sort of feel to them, you'll usually find a group of cynical, unhappy, miserable people behind the production. If you see a show that's rather boring, or a cookie-cutter factory show, you'll usually find some pretty uninterest
| Chinua Achebe, Writer (1930) |
| Oksana Baiul, Athlete (1977) |
| Brooke Elliott, Actress (1974) |
| William Christopher Handy, Musician (1873) |
| Ron Johnson, Politician (1966) |
| George S. Kaufman, Dramatist (1889) |
| Jack Finney, Author (1995) |
| Tommy Flanagan, Musician (2001) |
| Clark Gable, Actor (1960) |


