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“The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.”

Film Chance Television Mines Censorship

Author:John Pilger

“The divorce is a regret of mine and my mum thinks that we should have stayed together. He's now remarried so there's no chance of us getting back together.”

Thinking Should Together Chance Mines Regret Should Have Divorce Mum Back Together Getting Back Together

Author:Carol Vorderman

“This is more a personal quibble of mine, but why do you hate freedom? Why do you hate the fact that other people want a chance to live their lives and be happy, even though they may believe in something different than you, or act different than you? How does gay marriage, in any way shape or form, affect your life?”

People Way Want Believe May Doe Different Facts Form Hate Chance Mines Gay Shapes Gay Marriage

Author:Chris Kluwe

“I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they feel confident that at least I have a fighting chance to make a funny film when I make a film, whereas if I make a dramatic film there's one chance in a thousand that it's really going to come out great, so I understand how they feel about that and they're completely right.”

Ifs Want Feels I Can Film Fighting Chance Audience Mines Thousand Dramatic Buying Tickets One Chance

Author:Woody Allen

“The usual relationship between an artist and his painting is like the relationship with the father, or a husband's with his wife. But mine is a relationship with a stranger... with the chance acquaintance.”

Artist Father Chance Wife Mines Painting Husband Stranger Usual Confession Acquaintance

Author:Ilya Kabakov

“For every woman who's ever wondered about the path not taken, Fenton and Steinke mine—with tremendous humor and insight—the mixed blessing of unexpected second chances.”

Chance Path Taken Mines Blessing Insight Unexpected Second Chance

Author:Emma McLaughlin

“The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.”

Chance Mines Wands

Author:Martin Farquhar Tupper

“You only get a chance to live your dream once, and I'm living mine right now.”

Dream Chance Mines Right Now Your Dreams Live Your Dreams

Author:Chris Paul

“I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.”

Feels Kind Made Book Hands Given Felt Chance Numbers Mines Weapons Critics Size Reputation Sat New Books Rectify Given A Chance Bring Me Down

Book:Conversations with John Updike

Source: Conversations with John Updike

“Everybody takes breaks, and I decided to take mine. I wanted a chance to wake up at two in the afternoon and not be a subject of entertainment. I wanted to be a human being. At certain times and certain years, I felt like the Energizer bunny. That gets old very quickly.”

Years Humans Two Wanted Certain Felt Chance Human Beings Break Subjects Mines Decided Wake Up Entertainment Afternoon Bunnies

Author:Raven-Symone

“I went to theater school but never really got the chance to do theater, and it's always been a dream of mine.”

Dream School Chance Mines Theater

Author:Matthew Settle

“Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I distrust my memory, the more confused it becomes. It serves me better by chance encounter; I have to solicit it nonchalantly. For if I press it, it is stunned; and once it has begun to totter, the more I probe it, the more it gets mixed up and embarrassed. It serves me at its own time, not at mine.”

Ifs Doe Self Memories Chance Mines Judgment Tools Difficulty Presses Judgement Confused Encounters Lacking Embarrassed Distrust Stunned Chance Encounters

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.”

Done Used Chance Mines Good Things Priests Confession

Book:Christian Uncertainties

Source: Christian Uncertainties