Quotes About Opportunity

Mukesh Bhatt's wife had seen my performance in 'Geet,' and that is when she had decided to launch me in Bollywood. So, the credit of getting launched with such a big banner, and being recognized by people goes to my character in 'Geet.'

I used to believe that you have to say yes to every opportunity that comes your way in order to succeed in life. Now I realize that the rarely-talked-about secret to success (and sanity) is recognizing when it makes more sense to say no.

For years, I was just Joe Bloggs. There was no excitement until 'Game of Thrones,' and then people started recognizing me.

We are a country of immigrants who have built this great nation, but it is legal immigration that we should be recognizing and encouraging.

I would recommend all players go to Napoli, it is a gratifying and successful place.

I would recommend that anyone who wants to do comedy on TV to do radio first.

In 'Lean In,' Sheryl Sandberg gives a frank assessment of what it will take for women to move forward as equals to men. Her book is full of sound advice and informed recommendations and marked by its positive outlook.

How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.

The reality in the neighborhood that I live in is: if I don't constantly reconcile what I have against what other people don't, either I need to leave and be around other people who have what I have, or I'm constantly engaged in this kind of dynamic flow of opportunity and sharing.

Late in my career, I was asked to do an inspirational record and a duets album and I didn't want to do either.

Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument.

I feel blessed to even be able to put out an English album. Not too many Latin artists get the opportunity to come out and record another genre that's so different to Bachata.

When I got involved with The Five Crowns who later became The Drifters, and we got this hit record, I still was looking at this as kind of a fun thing.

My first record came out while I was a senior in high school, which is dangerous.

You can only be lucky if you have a place to record.

The record companies don't give you a chance, like in the old days when they went, 'Here's a pile of money. Go make a good record!'

There are very few record companies who will entertain a middle-aged woman coming to them with original material.

We showed record companies that they shouldn't be scared just because it's an all-girl band. We could play just as well as the boys.

It's not like it used to be where everybody has a record company to belong to.

We had such a small budget making our first record, and the only way we could make it work was that the record company would find studio time in the middle of the night - literally, that was so cheap that we could afford to do it.

I dropped out of law school when I got my record deal.

I tried out for American Idol, I got a record deal, and now it's like my best days are ahead of me.

When I was 19 I had a record deal.

I had pretty much raised my kids and my first wife and I were divorced, so I began, in earnest, to start my musical career again. Going for the big record deal and all of that.