"It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture."

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"It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture."

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"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."

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

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"There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book."

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"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."

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"I don't give players a chance to hit me."

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Dave Barry, American Journalist

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"Improvisation is too good to leave to chance."

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"I believe the Negro blood counts, and counts to my advantage - though it has caused me at times a life of great humiliation and sorrow."

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"I will preach with my brush."

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"The physical characteristics of the child Jesus will always remain a point of discussion. No artist has ever produced a type, nor ever will, that has in it all that the varying minds of all time will acknowledge as complete."

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"My effort has been not only to put the Biblical incident in the original setting... but at the same time give the human touch to convey to my public the reverence and elevation these subjects impart to me."

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"Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior."

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"My efforts have been to not only put the Biblical incident in the original setting, but at the same time give the human touch which makes the whole world kin and which ever remains the same."

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"Get it - get it better or get it worse. No middle ground of compromise."

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"I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind."

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"It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture."

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