Chance Quotes - Page 38

• As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore. You still get a taste of life but it's not quite the same and there's something to be said for a more anonymous life.

  Clint Eastwood

  Actors, Taste, Said

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• I don't think that people in the world, in general, have too many chances.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Thinking, People, World

  Source: collider.com

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• I really enjoy comedy, but I also still really enjoy the drama aspect. So, I don't like to narrow my possible chances out there.

  Erica Durance

  Drama, Comedy, Aspect

  Source: collider.com

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• Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you're driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it's going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Knowing, Car, Giving

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• So, absolutely, [my Dad] will call and say, "I just got offered this or that and what do you think?" My Mom [Lisa Bonet] will do the same. And we all trust each other's opinions. And we all know each other so well and what we're capable of so, if someone's scared to do something, we encourage them to take that chance because we believe in each other as a family.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Mom, Dad, Believe

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• I always stay out of the rehearsal room you know when they first come in. Then once they had chance to play a little bit, then I walk in. Because I've seen guys fall apart.

  Ray Charles

  Fall, Play, Guy

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I've always been one to take chances and I've always been one to, to create or follow through with instincts.

  Teddy Pendergrass

  Take A Chance, Instinct, Follow Through

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• If you've got no responsibility and don't have to generate a certain amount of cash each month, and can live on a shoestring, and are ambitious enough, then you might have a chance. You can be dedicated but that is no guarantee that you'll make it. I rely on a hunch, a little luck, and some cunning.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Responsibility, Guarantees That, Luck

  Sean Callahan, Elliott Erwitt (1974). “The private experience, Elliott Erwitt”

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• If we go out there and do our best every game, then I will take my chances that the results will be more good than bad.

  Stuart Pearce

  Games, England, Results

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• No change, no chance.

  John Redwood

  John Redwood (2004). “Singing the Blues: The Once and Future Conservatives”, Politicos Pub

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• I had the chance to play with Benny 'The King' Carter here in Copenhagen for three days in the Montmartre, and two days in Paris. 'What a Thrill.' He knows so much music, and he is the only person that I get the shakes trying to play my horn behind or with him (smile). However, it was a ball.

  Ben Webster

  Kings, Play, Two

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• Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.

  Andre Kertesz

  Transformation, Invention, Have Confidence

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• What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges and surprises them at their most positive, their most material and true.

  Brassai

  Lasts, Photographer, Surprise

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• The task of a philosophy of photography is to reflect upon [the] possibility of freedom - and thus its significance - in a world dominated by apparatuses; to reflect upon the way in which, despite everything, it is possible for human beings to give significance to their lives in the face of the chance necessity of death. Such a philosophy is necessary because it is the only form of revolution left open to us.

  Vilem Flusser

  Photography, Philosophy, Giving

  Vilém Flusser (2013). “Towards a Philosophy of Photography”, p.82, Reaktion Books

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• Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity, and when you're photographing children there's often an abundance of it. I would have an idea of what a photograph would look like and then something would happen - a dog might lumber in and become a critical element. I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

  Sally Mann

  Dog, Children, Angel

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• Italians can never win from you, but you can lose to them. 
  (when asked about Ajax's chances in the 1995 Champs League final against AC Milan)

  Johan Cruijff

  Winning, Ajax, League

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• Every time we click the shutter, it's like a new day, a new chance to make a clean start, to be original. It's a very exciting and exhausting thing to do.

  Maggie Steber

  New Day, Clean, Clicks

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• I share with many people the feeling that there is a sweetness and constancy to light that falls into a studio from the north sky that sets it beyond any other illumination. It is a light of such penetrating clarity that even a simple object lying by chance in such a light takes on an inner glow, almost a voluptuousness.

  Irving Penn

  Lying, Fall, Simple

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• If no-eye contact sex were a sport, I'm not saying I'd make it to the Olympics, but I like my chances.

  Dov Davidoff

  Sports, Sex, Eye

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• I was living under a desk in West Hollywood. It was a closet that I shared with another comic. I was shocked when they called me to come in to try out for the show. The chances of me getting on a TV show and winning it is like one-in-a-million. I had only been doing comedy for six years at that point, so I was basically considered an open mic-er or maybe a feature act once in awhile.

  Dat Phan

  Winning, Years, Tv Shows

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

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• I have my website, The Ruckus, which is an Internet site, similar to the Funny or Die format, where people post funny videos. I get a chance to rate their videos; they get a chance to blog and kick it with me.

  J. B. Smoove

  People, Funny Videos, Internet

  "J.B. Smoove Talks New Series ‘Bent,’ Plan To Become A Comedy Mogul" by Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 19, 2012.

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• I'm always looking for a chance to play somebody who's completely opposite of me, just because I find it more interesting.

  Alexandra Breckenridge

  Opposites, Play, Interesting

  "HitFix Interview: Alexandra Breckenridge talks ‘American Horror Story’". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. October 5, 2011.

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• I enjoy playing with a big band occasionally, but it's too restricting; you really don't have a chance to stretch out and do what you want to do. Getting that thing of relating to a large band is great experience; I relate much better, though, if it's a small band.

  Art Pepper

  Band, Want, Great Experiences

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• For me, the main thing is spontaneity and taking chances. You have to study and know the traditions, but then you have to play things that haven't been played before. It becomes a balance of knowing the tradition and using your own original voice to add to it.

  Dave Kikoski

  Play, Voice, Knowing

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• Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination.

  Clarence John Laughlin

  Thinking, Imagination, Acting

  Clarence John Laughlin, Lafcadio Hearn, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1973). “Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye”

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