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" In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game. "

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" If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary. "

" I think my best teacher and my best study was theater in general. It taught me a lot of patience and a lot of hard work, and I think that theater teaches you that you've got to know your stuff because you only get one chance. "

" Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them. "

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" Being brave means to know something is scary, difficult, and dangerous, and doing it anyway, because the possibility of winning the fight is worth the chance of losing it. "

" 'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson! "

" When I get the chance to make my favorite breakfast on the weekend, I often choose to make pancakes. "

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" In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman. "

" I wasn't a happy kid. I felt like my mum ruined our chance of a better life, because when she remarried, we went to live in Bahrain, on a compound with a swimming pool, and she ruined it all. "

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" Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner's right to the domain. But later drubbings of snow merely complicate running. Snow turns to ice, to slush, to ice again. Tire ruts twist ankles. New snow hides the hazards. "

" Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games. "

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