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“I hate the waiting room. Because it's called the waiting room, there's no chance of not waiting. It's built, designed, and intended for waiting. Why would they take you right away when they've got this room all set up?”

Hate Waiting Chance Rooms Built I Hate Waiting Rooms

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.”

Hard Shows Reality Chance Sleep Rooms Silence Sea Window Tall Infinity Candle Chill

Book:Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

Source: Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

“Sometimes I think I'm more comfortable onstage than I am in my own room. When I get onstage, it's kind of like your chance to let go and be something that you're not maybe. It's your time to dream.”

Thinking Kind Sometimes Dream Chance My Own Rooms Like You Letting Go Comfortable

Author:Britney Spears

“women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. ... Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own.”

Writing Years Two Chance Poor Rooms Dog Hundred Stress Writing Poetry

Book:A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas

Source: A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas

“I appreciate your giving my book -- and in no small way, me -- a chance. To thank you, I really wanted to acknowledge all of you in the book. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough room for each name. So I've put in a code name that stands for all of you reading this book. The name is 'Mom.' It will be our little secret. So when you see 'Mom' in the acknowledgments, you'll know I'm really talking about you. And don't let my mother try to tell you otherwise.”

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Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“In your everyday life you always have opportunities for enlightenment. If you go to the rest room, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you cook, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you clean the floor, there is a chance to attain enlightenment.”

Ifs Life Opportunity Chance Rooms Enlightenment Clean Everyday Cooks Everyday Life

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“When you hear someone use the word 'meds' instead of the word 'medicine,' chances are they're no stranger to massive doses of mind-altering psychotropic drugs. Back out of the room slowly.”

Mind Use Chance Rooms Drug Medicine Stranger Massive Chances Are Dose Meds

Author:Amy Sedaris

“I always leave room for serendipity and chance.”

Chance Rooms Serendipity

Author:Ken Stott

“Stories have tangents; they open up and become different things. You can still have a structure, but you should leave room to dream. If you stay true to your ideas, filmmaking becomes an inside-out, honest kind of process. And if it's an honest thing for you, there's a chance that people will feel that, even if it's abstract.”

People Ifs Feels Should Kind Stills Ideas Different Stories Dream Process Chance Rooms Honest Structure Abstract Different Things Filmmaking Stay True

Book:David Lynch: Interviews

Source: David Lynch: Interviews

“You don't often get a chance to record with the other actors who are playing the characters, mainly due to the fact that you don't have to, the actors' schedules are all over the place, and it's difficult to get everyone in the same room.”

Character Facts Actors Difficult Chance Rooms Records Dues Schedules

Author:Elijah Wood

“If we believe that we're separated from someone, though they stand in the same room with us, we're separated. If we believe that we're together, if we believe that they are with us, if we listen through our inner senses, there's a chance we'll hear.”

Ifs Believe Together Chance Rooms Senses

Author:Richard Bach