Chance Quotes - Page 28

• It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about. The tragedy of the place is all these talented people trying to get excited about stuff they themselves would only view at gunpoint.

  Stephen Gaghan

  Gun, Views, People

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

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• In the past few months I've become religious, I've started to believe in god, creationism and intelligent design, and the reason that I now believe in god and creationism and intelligent design is because of Professor Richard Dawkins. Because when I look at something as complex and intricate and beautiful as Professor Richard Dawkins, I don't think that just could've evolved by chance! Professor Richard Dawkins was put there by god to test us, like fossils. And facts.

  Stewart Lee

  Beautiful, Religious, Believe

  "Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle/ Religion". Comedy, April 2009.

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• Not only is the motion picture an art, but it is the one entirely new art that has been evolved on this planet for hundreds of years. It is the only art at which we of this generation have any possible chance to greatly excel.

  Raymond Chandler

  Art, Years, This Generation

  Raymond Chandler, Tom Hiney, Frank MacShane (2002). “The Raymond Chandler Papers: Selected Letters and Nonfiction, 1909-1959”, p.72, Grove Press

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• Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Children, Reading, Habit

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• People acquiring a second language have the best chance for success through reading.

  Stephen D. Krashen

  Reading, People, Language

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• Never resign. There's always a chance your opponent may drop dead before he mates you.

  Israel Albert Horowitz

  May, Opponents, Mates

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• If you can find meaning in the type of running you need todo to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning in another absurd pastime: Life.

  Robert Towne

  Running, Team, Needs

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• There's always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Fighting, Boxing, Something New

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• I'm not going to give up. If you pay attention to my plan and the way I live and the way I eat, then you have a chance to extend your life a few more years.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Giving Up, Years, Attention

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• I'm no heartthrob. Honestly, I am really happy that people are just giving me a chance and paying attention to what it is I have to say, because I certainly hope I have a lot more to say than I do to look at. That's more important to me.

  Gavin DeGraw

  Giving, People, Important

  "Gavin DeGraw speaks out on life and music". The Associated Press Interview, www.nbcnews.com. August 4, 2010.

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• I believe that the internet as an open platform for distribution could be a great chance for the diversity of film production.

  Agnieszka Holland

  Believe, Diversity, Film Production

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice. If people don't show that weekend, you're doomed. TV allows you to percolate a little bit, and it gives you a chance for people to find it.

  Bruce Campbell

  Weekend, Years, People

  "Ash vs Evil Dead": Bruce Campbell Talks Blood, Sidekicks, and Hating Ash’s Car". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 31, 2015.

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• I come from the best era of film I believe; when people were taking chances on films. It's time for us to bring more truth to the story and not necessarily carry a torch for every Black person in America; just tell a story, and a good one too.

  Romany Malco

  Believe, America, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I decided that I was ready to assume this position when I discovered that the chance to save the country was very meager. I was prepared to sacrifice myself for this country and its 90 million people. They want food, fuel and electricity and yearn for a decent life. Any president who does not pay attention to such details or is unable to provide the minimum level of stability should leave office.

  Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

  Country, Sacrifice, People

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In the armed forces, the chances of success are quite high. That's due to the clarity of the military structure - everything is sketched out. In politics, there are many more surprises and detours, and it's a lot more unpredictable.

  Abdel Fattah el-Sisi

  Military, Detours, Clarity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• A united Europe is our Continent's only chance to avoid falling off the world's radar. The heads of government of Germany, France and the United Kingdom also know that their voice is only heard internationally because they speak through the megaphone of the European Union.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Fall, Government, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It's always great to have another chance at something.

  Stockard Channing

  Another Chance

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you're immortal, you can imagine being sad or grieving if a lover leaves you. But if everyone were immortal, then that leaving isn't necessarily forever. There's always a chance that you get them back somewhere down the road - you know, in 5, 10, 20,000 years. So I think that the urgency of the moment gets sapped.

  Todd May

  Thinking, Grieving, Years

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• One of the things that makes the uncertainty of death so difficult for us is that we could be involved in a project and then, suddenly, it's cut off. And it's cut off in the midst of our involvement, so that we don't have a chance to see it through, to accomplish what we might accomplish.

  Todd May

  Cutting, Might, Projects

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.

  Cynthia Daignault

  Space, Different, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Tell me it's forbidden, unthinkable, and that's where I want to go. Because the chances are it's complicated, and the complications are meaningful.

  Dana Spiotta

  Meaningful, Want, Complicated

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• If any one hates to be alone with himself, the chances are that he has not much of any self to be alone with.

  Robert Haven Schauffler

  Hate, Self, Ifs

  Robert Haven Schauffler (2009). “The Joyful Heart”, p.62, The Floating Press

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• The blacks have their parties, hustle a little liquor, get some things together, and I used to play for those peoples. They'd come get me on time, but they wouldn't bring me back on time... Done picked cotton all day, play all night long, then pick cotton all day the next day before I could get a chance to sleep.

  Muddy Waters

  Party, Sleep, Night

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• Look. You all do things that are beautiful and magical and... and important. But me... there's gotta be more to my life than just pots and kettles. All I'm asking you is that you give me a chance.

  Tink

  Beautiful, Giving, Important

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• The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend, partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use - these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants. History means interpretation.

  Edward Hallett Carr

  Ocean, Mean, Swimming

  Edward Hallett Carr (1965). “What is History?”

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