"I was given a chance and I took it."

-- Maria Kirilenko

#Chance Quotes #Given Quotes #Given A Chance Quotes

“And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.”
“The content dictates the style all the time. That's the way it is. If the content of the film is highly jagged, neurotic, fast-paced, it just called for that kind of shooting, editing and performance.”
“I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.”
“One of the reasons I always looked up to [George] Carlin is he looked like your grandfather but, acted like your best friend. Most of the adults in my world were adults and acted like adults and had job-type jobs and bills and pressures and stopped playing a long time ago. And George Carlin was a guy that the more he aged the younger he seemed. It was odd because he was still sagely and wise. But he was such a role model for me.”
“Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, once told me that when a brass band plays at a small club back up in one of the neighborhoods, itâ€™s as if the audienceâ€”dancing, singing to the refrains, laughingâ€”is part of the band.”

Source : Tom Piazza (2009). “Why New Orleans Matters”, p.25, Harper Collins
“Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.”
“Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training.”
“It wasn't only that you didn't see him anymore, meet him anymore. You saw his absence and encountered it as something tangible. His not being there was like the sharply outlined emptiness of a photo with a figure cut out precisely with scissors and now the missing figure is more important, more dominant than all others.”

Source : Pascal Mercier (2008). “Night Train to Lisbon: A Novel”, p.157, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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