Quotes About Opportunity

I cannot wait until the day I can go back to school... I've already picked my program: anthropology at Columbia. I will not get in, but a girl can dream.

Jeff Wachtel, who was the main reason our show came back, and also got picked up to begin with, is from the New York theater.

As far as I'm aware, you can't tell if something is going to be successful. Brilliant scripts often don't get picked up, and terrible ones do all the time!

I'd love to be on an Australian show and in Australian cinemas - they've really picked up their game.

I just hope I get picked by the right team and the team that really wants me and a team where I can help and take it to the next level.

I don't want to say why I should be picked over somebody. I just want to say why I should be picked for any team.

I just want to do well in every game that I'm picked to play.

Frankly, this is what you dream about - to get picked for the Test team. That's why you work hard and give it your best day in and day out.

I was picked by Pradeep Sarkar for a huge campaign called 'Bharat Nirman' and he infused a lot of confidence in me and from thereon my journey started.

It's a great opportunity to get picked top 10 in the draft. It's just a dream that I've always had.

When I found out that I was picked to be on 'The Ultimate Fighter,' my first thought is that my dream had come true.

When you book a network show as an actor, it's like, 'Oh my gosh, I booked a network show,' and then it gets picked up.

I went off and did 'Space,' which turned out very well, and when the series was picked up, my options were to stay with 'Space' as a producer/director or go to 'The X-Files' as a producer/director.

I would never have picked up cycling had it not been for my disability because it just wasn't something I saw. You see someone riding past in their Lycra and it's normally white, middle-class males and I never would have seen myself in that position, being an elite cyclist.

Consciously picking the right script after a long period of wait helped me grab a perfect film in the rom-com genre.

I'm getting good exposure because of the movies I'm picking and the people I'm working with.

As I got older, I'd say probably when I got to, like, seventh or eighth grade, I was living in Atlanta, Georgia at the time, and I went for an open call for an agent, a local agent out there, a woman named Joy Purvis, and she ended up picking me up.

As much as I hate that it's a business decision - like, I'm just picking a school - it really is a business decision. I really don't see anything wrong with waiting it out.

Maybe I should be a literary agent. I'm good at picking up on books that become successful before it happens. I could pick up a lot more money than making films.

My job, if someone picks me, is to come and perform. That's what we do for a living.

You pick your destiny or maybe destiny picks you. But it picked me to box, definitely.

There aren't a lot of second chances for second-round picks.

We were always setting picks and screens and looking for an open shot.

You look at my career, everywhere I went - Miami, Green Bay, Cleveland, Philly - they were always bringing in draft picks and former first-rounders and guys with free-agent deals to take my job.