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" People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect. "

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" People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy. "

" In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance. "

" When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom. "

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" I've been starting in new places year after year after year. It's just like when I went to Greece or the Philippines. I love when people think I'm a new artist. It's a chance to start over. "

" Each of us has about 40 chances to accomplish our goals in life. I learned this first through agriculture, because all farmers can expect to have about 40 growing seasons, giving them just 40 chances to improve on every harvest. "

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" To be a good leader, you have to be a good communicator. As a leader, you have to communicate your intent every chance you get, and if you fail to do that, you will pay the consequences. "

" First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. "

" I tend to be a person who starts with the presumption that I should trust you until you abuse the privilege, and then our relationship is forever changed. That's a very big line, and chances are it's not going to work if it's crossed. I warn people that this is how I'm going to deal with it. "

" Balance provides the chance for longevity. You can be a champion at work and at home. "

" In the early '70s - a very good time for children's books and their authors - editors and publishers were willing to take a chance on a new writer. They were willing and able to invest their time in nurturing writers with promise, encouraging them. "

" So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him. "

" If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful. "

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" I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks. "

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" People are always asking for the latest developments in the unification of this theory with that theory, and they don't give us a chance to tell them anything about one of the theories that we know pretty well. They always want to know things that we don't know. "

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" I had a chance to get used to the lights and the camera without all that pressure to... emote. "

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" I've had a chance to see something that is way outside everybody else's frame of reference and gives a perspective that is very different from everyone else's. "