"I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime."

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"I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime."

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"Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?"

Bobby Knight, American Coach

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"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."

Louis Pasteur, French Scientist

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"But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group."

Gordon Parks, American Photographer

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"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."

Mark Haddon, English Novelist

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"Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound."

Juice Newton, American Musician

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"If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic."

Richard Eyre, British Director

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"When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well."

George Shearing, British Musician

Chance, Night, Play

"There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since."

Charisma Carpenter, American Actress

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"One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

Chance, Fate, Ignorance, Science

"Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity."

Democritus, Greek Philosopher

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"I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write."

Energy

"I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale."

Writing

"I also don't have organized religion on Pern. I figured - since there were four holy wars going on at the time of writing - that religion was one problem Pern didn't need."

Religion

"I wouldn't encourage new writers to start off publishing through electronic media... it still isn't wide enough for the readership they would need to get a good start."

Media

"What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food."

Food

"I'm very fond of the Talent series, and also the Crystal Singer trio."

Talent

"I'm 78, I'm on my pension in Ireland, and all that good stuff."

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"I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens."

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"I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage."

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"Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to."

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