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"Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes."

Robert Altman, American Director

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"Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes."

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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

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"While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

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"He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope."

William James, American Philosopher

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"When the right chance to love comes in hand, you have not to let it go, It might be the last chance you would've been waiting for and when it's gone, you will never see it again."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance."

Anne Bradstreet, American Poet

"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

Henry Miller, American Author

"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."

Marcel Proust, French Author

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"We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance."

Arthur Capper, American Politician

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"What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority."

"If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France."

"Maybe there's a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people."

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"Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes."

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