Chance Quotes - Page 35

• It's a very obsessive profession that you need to stay obsessed to get anywhere, and it's very easy for us to get obsessed and then nothing else matters. I was reading Somerset Maugham's novella, Moon and Sixpense, about this artist based on Gauguin's life. It was so beautifully written. You must be first rate because second rate you might not survive. If you're an accountant, you'll survive second rate. If you chance it big, you may not get anywhere.

  Joan Chen

  Reading, Artist, Moon

  "Joan Chen and Amanda Schull Interview MAO’S LAST DANCER". collider.com. August 18, 2010.

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• The excitement about independent filmmaking is that they're a little more open to taking chances. The studios are a little more careful, as far as who they choose for their film and what they're known for and staying in the genre because they know what works.

  Malin Akerman

  Independent, Littles, Excitement

  "HAPPYTHANKYOUMOREPLEASE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 02, 2011.

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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 willing to take challenges, I grew up taking challenges: being an only child, having a mother, no father, I've always been one who has always done things the way I thought they should be done and not, and not having to answer to anybody for it and I've always taken my own chances and I've always followed by instincts according, mother would follow, follow wit, instincts, wisdom, whatever, always followed that.

  Teddy Pendergrass

  Mother, Children, Father

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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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• Appear tougher or cooler or funnier than you feel and there is a chance you'll make it.

  Craig Ferguson

  Feels

  Craig Ferguson (2009). “American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot”, p.22, Harper Collins

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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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• My fascination with images open 24 hrs. is based on the complex interlocking if disparate facts heated pool that have no respect for grammar. The form then Denver 39 is second hand to nothing. The work then has a chance to electric service become its own cliché. Luggage. This is the inevitable fate fair ground of any inanimate object freightways by this I mean anything that does not have inconsistency as a possibility built in.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Mean, Fate, Hands

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• Maybe everyone doesn't deserve a second chance. If I can be perfect why can't you?

  Daniel Tosh

  Second Chance, Perfect, Ifs

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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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• A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees. They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.

  Jacob Epstein

  Artist, Wife, Lovers

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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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• There's a one in six billion chance you're gonna find your soul mate. But, maybe, your perfect soul mate is actually three or four half perfect people. How far are you willing to go to actually find that perfect somebody... ies. If you're not willing to make a group of people your soul mate then you'd better plan on being alone. You'll always have television.

  Christopher Titus

  Perfect, People, Soul

  "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

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• There's a one in six billion chance you'll find your soul mate. And that's if they're not dead. At best they're probably living in some Siberian ice cave eating bugs and weaving beads into their back hair. But they're out there. My dad believed that to find your perfect soul mate, first, you had to look through a bunch of other guys' soul mates.

  Christopher Titus

  Dad, Hair, Ice

  "Titus", www.imdb.com. 2000-2002.

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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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• The good thing about being stuck at the airport for an extra hour, is that it gives you a chance to give weary travelers surprise massages.

  Eugene Mirman

  Airports, Giving, Massage

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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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