"They were very generous with me. Everybody was willing to talk about their particular accident, what they had to deal with and how they got back in touch with their competitors' spirit."

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"They were very generous with me. Everybody was willing to talk about their particular accident, what they had to deal with and how they got back in touch with their competitors' spirit."

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"Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you."

Nastassja Kinski, German Actress

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"There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

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"They were very generous with me. Everybody was willing to talk about their particular accident, what they had to deal with and how they got back in touch with their competitors' spirit."

Gregory Hines, American Actor

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"Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great."

Carlo Goldoni, Italian Playwright

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"Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents."

Margaret Mead, American Scientist

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"And more importantly, I wouldn't be the person I am today, I wouldn't be where I am now and I may not even have been here if it wasn't for the accident."

Rick Allen, American Musician

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"Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong."

Lara St. John, Canadian Musician

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"Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get."

Moon Unit Zappa, American Musician

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"It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor."

Shirley Knight, American Actress

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"For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident."

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"It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner."

Sense,

"They were very generous with me. Everybody was willing to talk about their particular accident, what they had to deal with and how they got back in touch with their competitors' spirit."

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"I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black."

Actor,

"I can remember feeling very angry, and saying no! I can do it myself! From that point of view it was very emotional for me to get myself to the point to sit in the chair and be "up"."

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"They told me that the hotels had maybe two rooms set up for people with disabilities, but if they got there too late, and didn't get one of these rooms, they couldn't take a shower. The room wasn't hooked up for them, or maybe the sink was too high."

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"I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months."

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"You know the first time I sat in the chair I felt anything but up, it was very emotional for me. I had a chair in my hotel room, a chair at rehearsal, and I was trying to spend as much time as I could in the chair."

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"It turned out to be exactly that, but more challenging emotionally. I looked at it in a more physical way, having to act in a chair and move around. But it really was more emotionally challenging."

Act,

"I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done."

Time,

"I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance."

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