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There's talent on the streets, kids with ideas who have stories to tell and never get a chance.
James Jannard
Kids
Tell
Never
Talent
Ideas
Get
Stories
Who
Streets
Chance
The fact is that television, even before the movies, offered the chance to control our work and to get to do it again when we did something right. So television has always been better to writers than any other medium for a long time.
James L. Brooks
Work
Time
Better
Long
Long Time
Before
Control
Other
Medium
Our
Television
Something
Fact
Writers
Always
Been
Offered
Than
Get
Did
Any
Again
Movies
Even
Right
Chance
We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.
James Lovelock
Space
Earth
Outside
Never
Look
Got
NASA
Go
Been
Space Exploration
Exploration
Chance
I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs.
James McAvoy
Character
You
Other
Favorite
Jobs
Liked
Also
Got
Get
Children
Loved
Literature
Which
Really
Play
Playing
Chance
I never really got that chance at Manchester City and developed into a utility player. Playing in all the positions has made me a better player because it's not easy to do that. Understanding the game has made me a more rounded player as well.
James Milner
Me
Game
Better
Made
Understanding
Positions
City
Easy
More
Better Player
Never
Developed
Well
Because
Got
Manchester
Really
Utility
Rounded
Player
Playing
Chance
Eating the right things and doing the right things off the field are important. You see players like Ryan Giggs and Gareth Barry. If you look after yourself, you have a chance of playing a long time.
James Milner
Time
You
Yourself
Long
Long Time
Important
Field
Right Things
See
Eating
Like
Look
Doing
Off
After
Barry
Right
Things
Players
Playing
Chance
Like books you will never have the chance to read, there are languages you do not know, and you're not going to get a chance to learn, so you'll never really know what was written, only the approximation.
James Salter
You
Will
Books
Approximation
Only
Never
Written
Like
Know
Learn
Read
Get
Going
Really
Languages
Chance
If you work for Google or Apple, stock options give you a chance to share in the increasing value of the company. In the N.F.L., nothing like this happens; the players, though rich, are just working stiffs like the rest of us.
James Surowiecki
Work
You
Value
Rest
Google
Rich
Nothing
Increasing
Though
Give
Share
Like
Stock
Options
Just
Happens
Us
Working
Company
Apple
Players
Chance
The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed: the major record labels let Apple take over the digital-music business; Blockbuster refused to buy Netflix for a mere fifty million dollars; Excite turned down the chance to acquire Google for less than a million dollars.
James Surowiecki
Buy
History
Business
Opportunities
Internet
Google
Down
Record
Netflix
Take
Excite
Part
Mere
Missed
Over
Major
Blockbuster
Dollars
Labels
Than
Refused
The History Of
Acquire
Turned
Fifty
Less
Series
Apple
Million
Million Dollars
Chance
You get one chance to make an impression, and coasting through is a disservice.
James Vincent McMorrow
You
Disservice
Through
Make
Impression
Get
Chance
I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary. I like to think if something scares me, then there's a very good chance an audience will feel the same way.
James Wan
Myself
Good
Me
Will
Think
Gauge
Way
Scares
Scary
Something
Feel
Like
Audience
Very
Same
Then
Use
Good Chance
Barometer
Chance
I like to think if something scares me, then there's a very good chance an audience will feel the same way. The key is creating scenarios that people can relate to.
James Wan
Good
Me
People
Key
Will
Think
Relate
Way
Scares
Something
Scenarios
Feel
Like
Audience
Very
Same
Then
Creating
Good Chance
Chance
That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.
Jamie Foxx
Work
Great
You
People
Other
Everything
About
Inspires
How
Get
Arts
Grow
Watching
Chance
When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.
Jamie Foxx
Myself
You
Business
Natural
Progression
Direct
Camera
Lot
Times
Person
Get
Front
Want
Natural Progression
Really
Who
Actor
Actress
Eventually
Chance
The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.
Jamie Oliver
Health
Luck
Left
Five
Children
Public
Public Health
Should
Million
Chance
You do get a chance to think about things when you're at home, but that is when you want to relax and forget about football for a bit. Honestly, you don't really get time to stop and think about things. We have a job to do. That is all we concentrate on, going game by game.
Jamie Vardy
Time
Home
You
Game
Relax
Job
Think
Honestly
Bit
About
Football
Concentrate
Forget
Get
Going
Stop
Want
Really
Things
Chance
I have a band called M&O. We were working on our first album in 2011 or 2012. We were looking for people to collaborate with, and I met Chance through a Young Chicago Authors poetry slam.
Jamila Woods
People
First
Looking
Met
Band
Young
Our
Collaborate
Poetry
Through
Were
Chicago
Authors
Working
Slam
Album
Chance
I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.
Jan Garbarek
Me
Key
No Chance
Find
Strongly
Feel
Piece
Very
Chance
There were a lot of negatives, of course, but there were positives to living a life unfettered by possessions. It gave us the chance to focus on education, which was very important in the Soviet Union.
Jan Koum
Life
Education
Focus
Important
Living
Gave
Negatives
Positives
Possessions
Course
Were
Lot
Very
Soviet
Soviet Union
Unfettered
Which
Us
Union
Chance
Many premature babies are never given a chance to make it out of the hospital.
Jane Chen
Babies
Out
Given
Hospital
Never
Make
Premature
Many
Chance
In a sense, I am achieving what I set out to do - to devote myself to Stephen, to give him the chance of fulfilling his genius. But what have I become in the process? Who am I? What is there left of me? I am beginning to doubt my own identity.
Jane Hawking
Myself
Me
Genius
Become
Beginning
Own
Sense
Doubt
Out
Give
My Own
Devote
Identity
Him
Am
His
Left
Achieving
Process
Fulfilling
Who
Who Am I
Chance
Set
I would like to visit with people who are so interesting and so... and there are so many wonderful people out there that I would love to have the chance to talk to for a longer time.
Janet Reno
Love
Time
People
Wonderful
Visit
Out
Would
Longer
Like
Talk
Wonderful People
Interesting
Who
Many
Chance
Schools can do extraordinary things given the chance; teachers can do remarkable things if we eliminate the paperwork that sometimes binds them and give them a chance to really teach in our schools.
Janet Reno
Sometimes
Extraordinary
Extraordinary Things
Our
Paperwork
Give
Given
Remarkable
Schools
Them
Really
Teach
Teachers
Binds
Things
Eliminate
Chance
We want to look at everything we can do that's right and proper under federal law, and with federal laws to see that the children of America are given a chance to grow as strong, constructive, healthy human beings. It's the best investment we can possibly make in America.
Janet Reno
Best
Strong
Law
Healthy
Everything
Possibly
See
Proper
Laws
Given
Constructive
Federal
Investment
Look
Make
America
Human
Children
Want
Human Beings
Beings
Grow
Right
Chance
Peer mediation is a chance for students to work with other students to help them resolve problems, arguments, disagreements without having to get the teacher or the administration involved.
Janet Reno
Work
Teacher
Problems
Argument
Resolve
Other
Peer
Administration
Having
Students
Disagreements
Involved
Without
Get
Them
Help
Mediation
Chance
I don't feel that I've faced discrimination. I've had every chance to succeed and more, and I think that's what all women should have.
Janet Yellen
Women
Every
Think
All Women
Faced
More
Had
Feel
Discrimination
Succeed
Should
Every Chance
Chance
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