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“The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.”

Enough Opportunity Given Lines Female Males Bottom Producers Bottom Line Female Writers

“It's great if a pilot starts off great and if it doesn't start off so great it's not that big a deal: everybody's baby is born ugly. But you want to know, if given the opportunity: Where are we going? What's the story we're trying to tell?”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Stories Bigs Opportunity Given Born Deals Baby Ugly Pilots

Author:Timothy Olyphant

“As an actor, I like as much time with the material as possible and given the opportunity, time spent with the other actors in the scene. But that is a rare luxury in working in any TV series.”

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Author:Vincent Piazza

“Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe.”

Has Beens Facts Opportunity Given Nations Process Steps Taken Europe Good Things Unions Zone Solidarity Defects Greece Euro

Author:George Papandreou

“I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Hard Opportunity Given Given Opportunity

Author:Lorene Scafaria

“In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin has given years of service to our state after becoming the state's first female governor in 1985. She is an inspiration to girls throughout Vermont and the country in allowing them to know that the opportunities they have are unlimited.”

Knows Years Firsts Country States Inspiration Girl Opportunity Given Becoming Female Allowing Governors Unlimited Vermont Madeleines Years Of Service

Author:Bernie Sanders

“You are only as great as the opportunities that are given to you.”

Opportunity Given

Author:Charlize Theron

“The America I know is great - not because government made it great but because ordinary citizens like me, like my father and like you are given the opportunity every day to do extraordinary things.”

Knows Made Government America Father Opportunity Given Like You Citizens Ordinary Extraordinary Like Me Made It Extraordinary Things Ordinary Things Ordinary Citizens

Author:Mia Love

“Fans will treat something preciously if they're given the opportunity to do so.”

Ifs Opportunity Given Fans Treats

Author:Zachary Levi

“I had given thought to acting, but I never really had a good enough opportunity or a character who made sense and paralleled my life a little bit. I feel like I'm one of the poster boys for a bad guy in a movie. I feel like I'm a good person to play a bad guy in a movie. I can say that.”

Feels Littles Persons Made I Can Enough Play Character Guy Opportunity Given Bits Acting Boys Little Bit Good Enough Bad Guys Good Person Posters

Author:Gucci Mane

“That's what this democracy was for us, a huge supermarket of mass man where we could take a piece here and a piece there to make our personalities for ourselves instead of putting up with what was given at the beginning.”

Men Opportunity Given Democracy Pieces Huge Personality Mass Supermarkets

Book:What's this cat's story?: the best of Seymour Krim

Source: What's this cat's story?: the best of Seymour Krim

“Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had.”

Thinking Looks Opportunity Given Lucky

Author:Michael Patrick Jann

“I'm very happy and excited to be re-joining the Sixers family as a part of their broadcast team. I spent my best and most enthusiastic years of my NBA career with this organization and its fans and I truly feel honored and blessed to have been given this opportunity to return.”

Feels Years Has Beens Opportunity Given Careers Team Fans Return Organization Blessed Excited Nba Very Happy Honored Enthusiastic Joining

Author:Eric Snow

“We were all given our opportunities to be ourselves. A little bit of ourselves.”

Littles Opportunity Given Bits Little Bit

Author:Kristin Chenoweth

“It's really amazing that I was discovered and that I've been given these great opportunities to travel the world and work with amazing artists. I'm very blessed.”

World Artist Opportunity Given Blessed Great Opportunity Travel The World Really Amazing

Author:Misty Copeland

“In growing up, I was a child of the movies. I went to the movies every given opportunity, and that's pretty much what has informed a lot of my choices.”

Children Choices Opportunity Given Growing Up Growing Given Opportunity

Author:Morgan Freeman

“What I love most in life happens to be the very thing that I do day-to-day, as my work. What would be my hobby, you know, happens to be my actual job. So I'm very lucky. Even if I didn't want to do as much work as I do, I'd still feel compelled to, because I so longed to be a full-time artist, and since I've been given that opportunity, I'd never want to let down the gift.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Stills Happens Would Be Jobs Artist Opportunity Given Lucky Hobbies Day To Day Compelled Let Down Life Happens

Author:Ryan Adams

“When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.”

Book Opportunity Given Imagination Essentials Traits Soar

Author:Saint Augustine

“Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what's in him and what's been given him.”

Thinking Men Want Humans Hands Father Opportunity Given Responsibility Principles Taught Impulse Daddy Hand In Hand Fathers Day Taught Us Great Father

Author:Laurance Rockefeller

“The compulsory transfer of the [Palestinian] Arabs from the valleys of the proposed Jewish state could give us something which we never had, even when we stood on our own during the days of the first and second Temples. . . We are given an opportunity which we never dared to dream of in our wildest imaginings. This is MORE than a state, government and sovereignty----this is national consolidation in a free homeland.”

Giving Firsts States Dream Government Opportunity Given Temples Valleys Palestinian Sovereignty Homeland Transfers State Government Compulsory Consolidation

Author:David

“It is through solving problems correctly that we grow spiritually. We are never given a burden unless we have the capacity to overcome it. If a great problem is set before you, this merely indicates that you have the great inner strength to solve a great problem. There is never really anything to be discouraged about, because difficulties are opportunities for inner growth, and the greater the difficulty the greater the opportunity for growth.”

Ifs Problem Spiritual Opportunity Given Grows Growth Greater Capacity Overcoming Difficulty Burden Solve Inner Strength Problem Solving Discouraged Inner Growth

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“If you're a person and care about other people - I don't think I have any sort of special understanding or anything, I think any feeling person would experience similar things if given the same opportunities to see the things I've been lucky enough to see and meet the people I've been lucky enough to meet.”

People Ifs Thinking Persons Enough Feelings Care Opportunity Given Understanding Special Lucky

Author:Natalie Portman

“It's really seeing student involvement … as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience.”

Needs Desire Opportunity Individual Given Seeing Students Educational Variety Appropriate Involvement

Author:Adam Fletcher

“Mormon prophets have continuously taught the sublime truth that God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man who passed through a school of earth life similar that through which we are now passing. He became God - an exalted being - through obedience to the same eternal Gospel truths that we are given opportunity today to obey.”

Men Today School Earth Father Opportunity Given Taught Eternal Passing Passings Mortals Obedience Prophet Sublime Exalted Earth Life Given Opportunity

Author:Milton R. Hunter

“I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.”

Opportunity Given Majors Excited Nervous League Major League

Author:Bengie Molina

“Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the music. For what has been spoiled by the father can only be made good by a father, just as what has been spoiled by the mother can only be repaired by a mother. The disastrous repetition of the family pattern could be described as the psychological original sin, or as the curse of the Atrides running through the generations.”

Source: Mysterium coniunctionis, an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of psychic opposites in alchemy

“The voice thing is a blessing that I was given. I've had opportunities to do voice work of all kinds. It was something that was given to me and I was able to make good use of it.”

Kind Use Able Opportunity Given Voice Blessing All Kinds

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“Given lesser opportunities, Kissinger would have done very well as a talk show host. Fortunately for him, although not so fortunately for the United States, he found his patron in Nelson Rockefeller instead of William Paley.”

Wells States Done Shows Found Opportunity Given United United States Host Nelson Talk Shows Patron Kissinger

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.”

Thinking Knows Way Needs Opportunity Given Sound Practice Successful Havens Tolerance Slap

Author:Mel Gibson

“We are firmly convinced that private capital, Chinese as well as foreign, must be given liberal opportunities for broad development in postwar China; for China needs industrial growth.”

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Author:Mao Zedong

“I define success as when I say "yes" when I am given an opportunity.”

Opportunity Given Define Success

Author:Jane Pauley

“Hast thou fallen? Do not groan and lament: rather be thankful for the opportunity given thee to rise once more.”

Opportunity Given Failure Thee Fallen Being Thankful Lament

Author:Ivan Panin

“Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won't need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.”

Thinking World Needs Mind Persons Ideas Shows Running School Young Opportunity Given Planets Demand Authority Evidence Sacred Train Rational Brethren Young Minds

Author:Jack McDevitt

“I know how to choke. Given even a splinter-thin opportunity to let my side down and destroy my own score, I will seize it. Not only does ice water not run through my veins, but what runs there has a boiling point lower than body temperature.”

Knows Doe Body Running Opportunity Given Sides Water My Own Know How Down And Golf Ice Score Veins Temperature Choke Boiling Splinters Body Temperature Ice Water Boiling Point

Author:John Updike

“Every ex-player I meet says the exact same thing to me 'I wish I had given it longer'. Too many players get flights home when they have the opportunity because they' re missing their mates and home, then they go back into that environment and get comfortable.”

Home Opportunity Given Wish Environment Player Missing Comfortable Flight Mates Exes

Author:Kevin Kilbane

“Developed countries will always welcome the Einsteins of this world - those individuals whose talents are already recognized and deemed to have value. This welcome doesn't usually extend to the poor and uneducated people seeking to enter the country. But the truth, supported by the facts of history and the richness of immigrant contribution to America's distinction in the world, is that the most entrepreneurial, innovative, motivated citizen is the one who has been given an opportunity and wants to repay the debt.”

“It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child of the poor. Wealth has its misfortunes. Too much, too great opportunity and advantage given to a child has its misfortunes.”

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Book:Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

“It was the old psychosomatic side-step. Everyone in my family dances it at every opportunity. You've given me a splitting headache! You've given me indigestion! You've given me crotch rot! You've given me auditory hallucinations! You've given me a heart attack! You've given me cancer!”

Heart Opportunity Given Sides Family Steps My Family Cancer Headache Hallucinations Heart Attack Splitting Indigestion Auditory

Book:Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition

Source: Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition

“Different people are afforded different opportunities. I've been given some awesome opportunities, and I feel that I've always knocked them out of the park. But I've always been scaled back after that.”

People Feels Different Opportunity Given Parks Different Peoples

Author:CM Punk

“Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.”

People World Way Should Different Religion Opportunity Given Harmony Pursue Peace And Harmony Different Religions

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives. It has given people like me the chance to grow up knowing that no dream was too big and no goal out of reach.”

Source: American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone

“Being in L.A. has definitely given me the opportunity to experience how my music sounds in real life because I can drive around and listen to the mixes, which I couldnt do in New York. I get to feel how a song works in combination with a sunset and a drive through the mountains.”

Feels I Can Real Song Opportunity Given Sound New York Mountain Real Life Combination Sunset Because I Can

Author:Dave Sitek

“We're all given a window of opportunity, I think all artists are, of any genre. A window when you're truly relevant, the spotlight's on you and people are watching what you do.”

People Thinking Artist Opportunity Given Window Genre Relevant Spotlight Window Of Opportunity

Author:Eric Church

“Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.”

Should Trying Children Kids Wanted Opportunity Given Shapes Athlete

Author:Joan Cusack

“You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; from there you have to build your own path.”

Opportunity Given Path Boards Jumping

Author:Avan Jogia

“Before negotiating a raise, start collecting a file of evidence showing how you've impacted the bottom line. ... Don't believe there's no money in the budget. Don't assume your boss knows how great you've been doing. Don't threaten to leave -- you may be given the opportunity.”

Knows Believe May Opportunity Given Lines Know How Evidence Raises Assuming Bottom Don't Believe Budgets Boss Bottom Line Files Collecting No Money Negotiating

Author:Pat Heim

“I never look a gift horse in the mouth. And I've been really, really lucky. I'm aware of that. And my career has been given to me by the people I've worked with, no question. The actors, the directors, the cinematographers, the writers, all of whom gave me the opportunity to work in the way that I have and I'm really grateful.”

People Way Looks Has Beens Actors Opportunity Given Careers Lucky Directors Mouths Horse Grateful Cinematographers

Author:Meryl Streep

“I think, often times, it's the audience that suffers when a show isn't given the opportunity to have a beginning, middle and end.”

Thinking Ends Shows Suffering Opportunity Given Audience Middle Beginning Middle And End

Author:Khandi Alexander

“A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't ignore you." She thought I was being flip but it's true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me.”

Trying Said Shows Opportunity Given Challenges Mines Show Business Flip

Author:Steve Martin

“What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'”

Writing Firsts Opportunity Given Sun Fantastic Sunday Honour Columns

Author:John Sentamu

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