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"I look at the film as an opportunity to see some bountifully creative minds do something that I could not do - tell the story with images. I can't wait to see what they do."
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"The big miracle you await will likely first appear in a small encounter or chance event. So always be aware and open, you never know what today will bring."

"Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities."

"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."

"Don't wait for the opportunity, create it."

"Just like watering the field will cause both the desired seed and the undesirable weed to germinate, the opportunities for your mission in life will be equally presented with real-life threats."

"No noble opportunity is small. Mind small opportunities with noble traits, though they may seem quite uncanny at first sight; in the mind, you shall wonder!"

"It is the ultimate opportunity of a lifetime to try to understand the dreams and desires of a blooming flower."

"Every day is a new opportunity to earn the lost values, but not for an apathetic."

"If you leave your soil untilled, you will not benefit from God's rain. Even if God pours down a heavy rainfall, it will only grow weeds on your land."

"One mustn't refuse the unusual, if it is offered to one."
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"I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book."


"The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden."


"People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified."


"I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything."


"In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely."


"Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison."


"And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well."
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