![Just coming to terms with the fact that I got to play April Wheeler [Revolutionary Road] and Hanna Schmitz [The Reader] in one year, let alone in my lifetime. I'm very, very aware of how rare that is as an opportunity for any one person. I can't tell you how much I've been able to take away from these experiences creatively. I really, really learned so much about acting, about myself... all of those things. It's difficult to talk about the actor's process without sounding like an arrogant asshole but they really were very challenging.](/assets/img/quote-photos/just-coming-to-terms-with-the-fact-that-i-got-to-play-april-wheeler-revolutionar.jpg)
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opportunity
He didn't really get a shot. They didn't give him much opportunity in the pre-season. Chris Murray
opportunity people risk
You don't want too much fear in a market, because people will be blinded to some very good buying opportunities. You don't want too much complacency because people will be blinded to some risk. Ron Chernow
opportunity careers fortunate
I've been very fortunate to have had the opportunities to have the career I've had. Travis Tritt
opportunity two years
I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service. Regis Philbin
opportunity careers progress
Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers. Reid Hoffman
opportunity america world
There are times when words seem empty and only actions seem great. Such a time has come, and in the Providence of God America will once more have an opportunity to show the world that she was born to save mankind. Woodrow Wilson
opportunity political economic
If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability economic, political and social. William Weld
opportunity race doors
The purpose of affirmative action is to give our nation a way to finally address the systemic exclusion of individuals of talent on the basis of their gender, or race from opportunities to develop, perform, achieve and contribute. Affirmative action is an effort to develop systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment, and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and persistent discrimination. William J. Clinton
opportunity mass-destruction iraq
What if [Saddam] fails to comply and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route, which gives him yet more opportunities to develop this program of weapons of mass destruction? ... Well, he will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction. And some day, some way, I guarantee you he'll use the arsenal.
years because-i-can filing
My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived. Richard D. James
years track done
I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.
years people twenties
Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you. Robbie Coltraine
years trying way
The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed. Rob Chapman
years age earth
All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth's age is at least four billion years. Richard Dawkins
years two looks
A few years ago I wrote two versions of my obituary, the one I wanted and the one I was heading for. They were very different. I realized I needed to make some big changes if I was going to look back and be proud of my life. I am making those changes, and now I have a life worth living. Roz Savage
years tv-shows feelings
For me, as an actor, one of the biggest fears on a TV show is getting stuck in something where you end up feeling like you're doing the same thing, every single year. Tyler Hoechlin
years bigger grows
But every year you grow, you will find me bigger. Reza Aslan
years knees operations
It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations. Willie McCovey
player team
I think it can be a distraction to the player being recruited and the team, if it's something the team is not used to, ... Around Loomis, little old Loomis, it's a little crazy. Ben Chandler
player
He'll be a player for us. He's a young guy, so we'll have to get him in here and see how he does. But with our situation, he'll have a shot.
playing win
Harrison is playing really well and to go over there and win will be a challenge.
playing related sports
I was so tired of playing tennis, so tired of traveling, of hotels, everything related to this sport. Thomas Muster
played
I've always been a leader. Every team I've played on, I've led my way. Shaquille O'Neal
played smooth wish
He's a really smooth player. I wish he played for me.
plays shot tough
He shot 3-over on the back nine, and that was pretty good, too. The back is tough because it's long and it plays into the wind.
played purpose tonight
I thought we played with a lot more purpose tonight than we did the other night. Jerry Sloan
played wore
I thought we played well. They just wore us down.