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• I recall that my workshop leaders were tactful in their ways of acquainting me with my shortcomings as a writer. So much so that I hardly realized they were doing it. I want always to keep that sort of thing in mind when I'm teaching. The way you get better in everything in this life is to make mistakes. Otherwise you're probably doing it right by accident. But you have to do everything wrong before you can really start with some authority to do it right.

  Tobias Wolff

  Mistake, Teaching, Leader

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• Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.

  Dick Armey

  Stupid

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• I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

  Grace Jones

  Singers

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.

  Edward H. Levi

  Frustration, Intellectual, Events

  Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.9, University of Chicago Press

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• When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.

  Andy Andrews

  Mom, Dad, Cancer

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• I came to photography by accident.

  Eve Arnold

  Photography

  Eve Arnold (1995). “Eve Arnold: in retrospect”, Random House (UK)

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• I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.

  Manu Bennett

  Mother, Brother, School

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• I want to help others 'think first' before diving into a pool or lake to prevent these types of life-changing accidents. I know I'm in a very fortunate minority and hope my story inspires both adults and children to be more careful.

  Brooke Burns

  Children, Life Changing, Helping Others

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• Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.

  James Belushi

  Rip, Loss, Compassion

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• And you know, it's not just illegal immigration. Terrorists can come across. They're devastating our ranchers down in southern Arizona - drop houses, kidnapping, automobile accidents, extortion, drugs, the spill-over with the drug cartels. We're facing all of it.

  Jan Brewer

  Drug Cartels, House, Southern

  "Exclusive: Gov. Brewer - We're Not Going to Put Up With Insecure Borders Anymore". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 28, 2010.

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• I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.

  Anne Carson

  Teacher, School, Years

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• There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident.

  Craig Charles

  Thinking, Careers, Dwarves

  Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2009.

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• I got into the movies by accident. When I got an offer, I thought, 'Let's try this, too.' Everything in my life has happened by trial and error. I didn't even think I would win the Miss India title, so where's the question of thinking I'd come this far.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Winning, Thinking, Errors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Country, Men, Dna

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• One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.

  Alma Gluck

  Goal, Doe, Study

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• I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.

  Gordon Getty

  Writing, Ifs

  "I want to make the world better" by Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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• It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Real, English History, Confusion

  "Peter Ackroyd: 'I just want to tell a story'" by Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2011.

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• My musical career was an accident.

  Sade Adu

  Careers, Musical

  "The Pop Life; 'Diamond Life,' Sade's Debut Album" by Stephen Holden, www.nytimes.com. January 30, 1985.

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• Insurance is meant for extraordinary circumstances. You don't use car insurance to pay for oil changes or gasoline; you have it as protection in case you have a terrible accident or your car is stolen. You don't use homeowners' insurance to pay your electricity and water bills; you have it as protection in case a fire or other catastrophic event produces a large expense. Obviously, any insurance policy that promises to cover every small, ordinary expense is going to be much more expensive than one that covers only extraordinary expenses.

  Harry Browne

  Fire, Oil, Car

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• How was I conceived? Was it love, was I meant, or was I just an accident?

  Ray Davies

  Family

  Song: Babies, Album: Phobia

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• Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old.

  Michael Cunningham

  Book, School, Virginia

  "The Pulitzer for Fiction". "PBS NewsHour" with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. April 19, 1999.

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• ER was one of my favourites. I played a car accident victim who has leukemia. I got to wear a neck brace and nose tubes for the two days I worked.

  Dakota Fanning

  Two, Car, Necks

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• I look at actors very closely. It's not an accident when the actors excel.

  John Frankenheimer

  Looks, Actors

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• The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling. The doomed fate of the local fisherman and the environment were foretold in the infamous chants of 'Drill, Baby, Drill.

  Robert Greenwald

  Baby, Fate, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing I do is by design. It's always the result of a happy accident. I didn't have a career plan. It has just become the way it is. It's all good fun.

  Lena Headey

  Fun, Careers, Design

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