Can Failure Be Seen As A Good Thing Essay

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Can failure be seen as a good thing? Some people don’t thinks so, but the ones that do are the ones who succeed. In Order to be successful you have to fail along the way. Failure is like a stepping stone to success. But don’t get me wrong, just because you do succeed, doesn’t mean you won’t fail. People who make mistakes during their time of failure learn from it. Failure is a lesson, a challenge, not a disappointment. The most famous people know what failure is like, because they have faced it many times before.Failure is the reason they are where they are now.
I bet if you were to look up quotes about failure it would show many pictures of famous singers, actors, basketball players, directors, writers, etc., with their own words about failure. Many people go through failure and find a way to success; one in particular had her own way of doing so.
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She lived in a Jewish background with her parents, Michael Horowitz and Cynthia Palmer and siblings: Uri, Jubal, and Sunyata. For the most part she went to school at Petaluma High School, but was later home schooled because she got bullied by girls for looking tomboyish. She later got revenge on one of the girls when they asked for an autograph and she told her to “ Go f**k yourself ”. Winona fell in love with acting because of her mother who would always make her watch movies and read. After two years of being homeschooled, she enrolled at the American Conservatory theater in San Francisco. She learned how to act and perform. Winona’s first debut was the 1986 film Lucas. She was in may other films but Beetlejuice (1988) and Heathers (1988) was when she peeked her fame, but after the making of Beetlejuice, she was bullied. She was also on other known movies like Edward Scissorhands (1990) and The Age of Innocence (1993) which won her a golden globe in

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