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“The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself.”

Giving Writing Long Play Actors Chance Pieces Long Time Give Me Comic Dramatic Facets

Author:Linda Lavin

“The flesh is sweeter, where the creature has some chance for its life; for that reason, I always use a single ball, even if it be at a bird or a squirrel; besides, it saves lead, for, when a body knows how to shoot, one piece of lead is enough for all, except hard-lived animals.”

Ifs Knows Hard Reason Enough Use Body Chance Animal Know How Pieces Creatures Bird Balls Flesh Hunting One Piece Squirrels

Author:James F. Cooper

“Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were attacked five times, outgunned, outnumbered, on a small piece of land, and our main challenge was to remain alive.”

War Fighting Challenges Chance Five Pieces Alive Land Israel Small Pieces Yom Kippur

Author:Shimon Peres

“I grew up in the spoken-word community. Before everybody had a home studio, or before we could get booked for shows, open mics were the only way to be heard by other people. It really gave me a chance to develop as a performer. Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10,000 people.”

People Way Shows Home Reading Community Challenges Chance Pieces Heard Fronts Grew Grew Up Beats Studios Performers Spoken Word Mics

Author:Macklemore

“We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, can't grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have with history--even our own small, personal, largely undocumented piece of it?”

Ifs Chance Pieces Progress Mystery Bounds Pace

Book:The Sense of an Ending

Source: The Sense of an Ending

“Perhaps there is a reason that there is no fool piece on the chessboard. What action, a fool? What strategy, a fool? What use, a fool? Ah, but a fool resides in a deck of cards, a joker, sometimes two. Of no worth, of course. No real purpose. The appearance of a trump, but none of the power: Simply an instrument of chance. Only a dealer may give value to the joker.”

Giving May Two Real Sometimes Reason Use Action Purpose Values Courses Chance Pieces Fool Trump Instruments Strategy Appearance Cards Dealer Deck Deck Of Cards

Book:Fool

Source: Fool

“Give everyone a chance to have a piece of the pie. If the pie's not big enough, make a bigger pie.”

Ifs Giving Enough Bigs Chance Pieces Bigger Pie

Author:Dave Thomas