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"There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do."

"On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray."

"I assure you I will not miss the chance to show you that you were right when you voted for me."

"If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do."

"As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it."

"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."

"Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn."

"I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment."

"Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about."
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"I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor."


"You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them."


"On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away."


"All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice."


"While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice."


"As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government."


"If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to."
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