Quotes About Opportunity

'Lady Macbeth' is a great opportunity for me to prove that maybe the outcome of 'The Falling' was not necessarily a fluke.

I failed the LSAT. Basically, if I had not failed, I'd have been a lawyer and there would be no Spanx. I think failure is nothing more than life's way of nudging you that you are off course. My attitude to failure is not attached to outcome, but in not trying. It is liberating.

When you go to an audition, don't hang on to it because no matter how well you feel it went or how badly, you just never know what the outcome is going to be.

Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass.

I don't want artists to find themselves in a situation where there are only two buyers. That just doesn't seem like a good outcome.

I didn't know basketball was going to be the outcome for me after school.

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.

Maybe I'm outdated in thinking this, but because I'm a young black woman and don't see very many being the lead in a film, I have this fear: 'Will I be working?'

Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.

A lot of new girls are arriving every day - let them do the glamour roles! I am done with ultra glam outfits and five song routines - hereafter, I want to do meatier roles, now that I've acted with all the biggies.

In the single group format, where each team plays against the other, it gives a chance to the established outfits to make a comeback if they falter in the early games.

There's a part of me that's trying to represent kids that don't necessarily have the same outlet that I have. I'm not looking towards a new demographic. I'm looking towards the demographic I came from.

Music is the outlet to bigger and better business; that's what I'm excited about.

I feel like basketball is my outlet. Basketball is an opportunity for me to get all my emotions out.

I think basketball becomes an outlet for it, an opportunity to get that frustration out and forget about all the problems and things you have going on in your life outside.

I like to be creative and I'm lucky that I have a couple of different outlets, and I'm lucky that I get to use them.

So today I say, the outlook in Georgia has never been brighter.

I think the state of the NFL has a very positive outlook.

It's not a natural process, 'American Idol,' but it does great things for the people that are on that show. If you don't walk away from it with some kind of positive outlook or find an opportunity to come from it, then I feel like that's a choice.

There are a lot of women screenwriters, but they are obviously outnumbered by men. And it still is a very much male-dominated industry.

I have been offered so many parts in movies and I just think it's so outrageous as I've never really done acting or things like that.

I've won the British title and although it would be nice to win it outright, I want to push on to the next level and if the opportunity to fight for the European or even a world title comes up, I will take it.

I am grateful that my horizons were not narrowed at the outset.