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“I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.”

Chance Machines Theater Woods Movie Theater Time Machine

Book:Tell the Wolves I'm Home

Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“Oh yeah In France a skinny man Died of a big disease with a little name By chance his girlfriend came across a needle And soon she did the same At home there are seventeen-year-old boys And their idea of fun Is being in a gang called The Disciples High on crack, totin' a machine gun.”

Men Years Littles Ideas Home Bigs Names Fun Chance Boys Disease Gun Machines Died Yeah France Girlfriend Cracks Disciple Gang Skinny Needles Seventeen Machine Guns Seventeen Years Old

Author:Prince

“I always want to try new things, and 'Mean Machine' has given me that chance. I have got plans to carry on acting and would love to play all sorts of roles - you'll see that there's more strings to my bow!”

Want Trying Mean Play Given Chance Acting Roles Plans Machines Strings Bows New Things

Author:Vinnie Jones

“We're just one cog in this giant machine. You show up and look at all the other cogs like, "Wow, everyone is the best at what they do." You're in really good hands. And that frees you up to play and feel safe, and you can take chances, creatively. You can take risks. I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.”

Want Feels Looks Play Shows Hands Chance Risk Safe Machines Giants Just One Wow Take A Chance Cogs

Author:James Badge Dale

“Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization, of acting and thinking alike, of the huge machine which society is becoming, is to restore life to all things through the saving and beneficent power of the human imagination.”

Thinking Humans Imagination Chance Acting Huge Becoming All Things Machines Saving Blight Human Imagination Mechanization Thinking Alike

Book:Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye

Source: Clarence John Laughlin: the personal eye

“There's this corporate machine giving us a chance to access radio - though there's no guarantee.”

Giving Chance Machines Radio Access Corporate Guarantees

Author:Caroline Polachek

“You know, the process, I think, is the story. And it goes back, again, to what I said about chance and about radical contingency, the idea that all of this is this well-oiled machine that's been reared up and, like, really articulated and thought about.”

Thinking Knows Wells Said Ideas Stories Process Chance Machines Radical Back Again Contingency Well Oiled Machines

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“I got drafted into the army and by pure chance was pushed into a silk-screen shop at this camp where I was, because they could not get training posters fast enough out of a central source in Washington, D.C. So they set up their own shop to print training posters: how to dismantle a machine gun, etc.”

Enough Chance Source Pure Training Gun Machines Army Screens Shops Etc Print Camps Silk Posters Machine Guns

Author:Warren MacKenzie

“As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.”

Beautiful Chance Beauty Machines Tables Encounters Umbrella Sewing Chance Encounters

Author:Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

“Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys. Adolescence. The first date, the first kiss, the first chance to hold hands with someone special. Delayed, postponed, a decade's worth of longing--while everybody around you celebrates life, you pretend, suppress, inhibit, deprive yourself of you own joy--but finally ultimately, eventually, you find a place where you can have a taste of everything denied.”

“We'd spent maybe ten minutes together, during which time I'd accidentally swung a sword at her, she'd saved my life, and I'd run away chased by a band of supernatural killing machines. You know, your typical chance meeting.”

Knows Running Together Chance Minutes Band Ten Machines Meetings Killing Saved Running Away Typical Chance Meeting

Author:Rick Riordan

“I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine.”

Thinking Want Mind States Chance Drug Decided Machines State Of Mind Altered Altered States

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.”