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When you are interviewing someone, you have a chance to follow up, to press, to dig in. In a debate there's 30 seconds for the other guy, too. And the goal is to get them to engage with each other, not to engage you necessarily.

When you ask me what I'm afraid of, I'd say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance or some sort of supernatural being, but it doesn't scare me as it scared me when I was a child.

When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done

When you go for something because you're curious about it, you get psyched up about the chance of getting into it. It's like an actor meets a role, and you slip into that body and see what happens, to experience certain conditions, to adopt a certain character. Even shooting is a study of the character. I think both the character and the actor, and eventually the filmmaker - myself - are finding a way to accept their environment and being accepted and feel comfortable of themselves.

When you go through life ... it all seems accidental at the time it is happening. Then when you get on in your 60s or 70s and look back, your life looks like a well-planned novel with a coherent theme ... Incidents that seemed accidental, pure chance, turn out to be major elements in the structuring of this novel. Schopenhauer says, 'Who wrote this novel? You did.'

When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your audience. That's a great thing. That's the best thing that can happen to an artist.

When you have the chance to fight for victory or a podium finish, you have the motivation to push that extra bit out of yourself.

When you just arrive in L.A., you are in a great position, as you are fresh meat, and people will meet you and give you a chance.

When you play with good players, they will always create chances for the forwards to score.

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children's birthdays, there's a good chance you've become too wrapped up in your work.

When you've got a solid commitment and solid objectives, you've got a much better chance of reaching your goal.

When you usually are not ready to chance the standard you'll need to settle for the standard.

Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.

When you write about real life, there's always a chance that somebody involved is going to see it and get upset.

Where a chunk of business is simple, the chances are that it is.

Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.

Where do you go to get permission to make a dent in the Universe ? If you think there's a chance you can make a dent, go !

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

Who is Dr. A. von Holstein? And is he related, by chance, to a race of cows?

While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it, because it's all on you.

Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.

Who is the person in my life for whom my presence allowing them to have a true second chance, allowing them to have an authentic relationship, who is the person for whom if I do that, their life can be changed for the better? That's something we can do right now with the people right next to us.

While you had the chance to live, did you become your true self?

Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?

‎Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.

Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!

Why had I been so afraid? I had not loved enough. I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta...I had had all my time, all my chances. I could never do it again, never make it right. I had not loved enough...I had not passed up all my chances to give love or receive it, and I had the future, at least, to try to do better.

Why? Why did you do this to me?" "He's going to come after me. He won't just kill me. He'll go after you, too." "That's right, He can't take the chance. I didn't tell you about it...why?" He repeated on a sob? "Why did you-" You wouldn't take me to New York" His mouth dropped open "NEW YORK?" he shouted. "You did all this because I wouldn't take, you to New York!

Wij wezen allles wat kopie of beschrijving was af en lieten het elementaire en het spontane in volle vrijheid reageren. Omdat de plaatsing van de vlakken en de kleuren en de verhoudingen van deze vlakken louter op toeval schenen te berusten, verklaarde ik dat deze werken, zoals in de natuur, gerangschikt waren "volgens de wetten van het toeval", toeval dat voor mij alleen maar een beperkt onderdeel vormde van een onpeilbare reden van bestaan, van een orde die in zijn totaliteit ontoegankelijk was.

Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.

Wind is a plant's only chance to make music.

With social media, you have the chance to be the Lutherans that Luther imagined.

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

Without music, there is not the faintest chance [Bob Dylan] words would now be garlanded as they are.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

With writing, we have second chances.

With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around.

Without a doubt, absolutely, a woman will be a president, and probably sooner rather than later. I am excited about that, and if what I did serves as a steppingstone for another woman down the course, I am very grateful to have had that chance.

Without organization and leadership toward a realistic goal, there is no chance of realizing more than a small percentage of your potential.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.

Women can feel inspired by the story. People who haven't been traditionally given a chance to use their skills or shine are given a chance, and they prevail.

Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what you are writing, you have a much better chance of putting that excitement over to a reader.

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.