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Writers do well to carefully attend to those moments of inspiration, because chances are that they're writing from a very deep place. The subsequent search that ensues to continually attend to that voice that you hear is what is going to give the story drive.

We're still hopeful but we are no longer that confident. The chances of finding the paintings diminish with time and already a lot of time has passed.

We're still hopeful, but we are no longer that confident. The chances of finding the paintings diminish with time and already a lot of time has passed,

We're still excited about our chances in the Pioneer District. It doesn't change anything for us, really. We still control our own destiny. Our goal is to be district champions.

We're looking forward to going back to Talladega this weekend, ... I'm as confident about our chances at a restrictor plate race as I have been in a very long time. Whenever we go to a restrictor plate race, we know that the 24, 15 and the 8 are going to be strong. All the Chevrolets gang up together because they know they are going to be tough to beat.

We want to provide the best possible entertainment for our fans and that means creating a winning team and maximizing their chances of success.

We want to promote it as much as we can. This week is for the kids, they work hard and they have a beautiful facility. We have two chances this year to show it off and do it right.

We were asleep. I think if I'm honest Norwich deserved all three points. We had our chances - it could have been 5-4 - but I think in the end 2-1 was probably a fair reflection.

We were trying to pin them deep. And we just had a breakdown in our coverage. The films may show something else, but it was basically a breakdown. We took chances the whole game, and sometimes you get hurt by them.

Wayne can be whoever he wants to be. He's a great young lad and he's at the right club to be looked after and to be brought through. If he carries on doing what he's doing, creating chances for players and for himself, he's going to deserve those comparisons.

We always have to score more points than they do. We get just as many chances as they do so we have to make good on our chances and take our shots. If it (the score) comes down to 99-98, that's what it needs to be and we have to have 99. If it comes down to 3-2, we've got to have the three.

We did not commit a single error in the game. When you can go five innings in high school baseball without committing an error, you improve your chances of winning.

We deserved to finish top because we have more points than the other teams. We done a good job, kept another clean- sheet and created some chances on the counter-attack. It was important for us to control the midfield. However, this became more difficult in the second half when Chelsea started playing long ball but the team worked hard in defense and we must enjoy this moment.

We deserved the win even if it did come from a mistake by their keeper. He had an incredible night, we created plenty of chances but he just pulled off one great save after another.

The only two chances we had were fluffed, but in a rare attack we scored a lovely try. Our confidence returned and with it, a belief that we could win.

We've been in this position it seems like forever now. We're on the outside looking in. We've had our chances and just haven't been able to take advantage of it.

We really finished our chances tonight. Our team weathered the storm in the end, scoring a late goal to secure the win. I am really happy with the game tonight. It always feels good to beat a team from a so-called 'higher' conference.

We rate our chances highly, but we won't be under-estimating this Indian side. If you go out and beat India in India, you have done pretty well.

We ran ourselves out and took the bats out of some hands in a few innings. We made outs at bases we shouldn't have, trying to be too daring. If we would have played a little smarter we could have ended the game in five and saved some pitching. We wanted to take some chances going to second not third and home and we made some obvious misreads.

We had a few chances at it, but we let it slip away from us. We came out a little tight early, but that comes with playing at Petal. They're awfully tough here. But once we saw we could score some runs, we relaxed and hit the ball well.

We did our job and took the points and we're happy with that. This is just as important a win as any other even if the game wasn't particularly attractive. We ensured they had few chances and scored three times ourselves. They were happy to sit back and let us come at them and that meant the game wasn't too attractive, but we had to be on our guard against their counter attacks and we did that well.

We didn't work on finishing as much this week, so that's bad coaching on my part. We've got to put those away because you're going to have fewer good chances to score the deeper you get in the playoffs. We're going to be talking about some 1-0 game, and we've got to put those chances in.

We didn't think we had second chances until partway through the game. They controlled the inside of the rink.

We have played better. We missed some chances as Mercy Cross did a great job defending.

The facility is very nice. The league pretty much got started through word of mouth. Pinheads opened in August 2005, and there weren't a lot of chances to advertise the youth league. But I think we can get it to grow. We have a lot of kids coming in here on Friday and Saturday nights to bowl. There's no reason we can't get them in here on Saturday morning.

The reality is that SXSW is packed with brilliant entrepreneurs, investors and partners. They're everywhere, zipping back and forth like thousands of atoms. Your chances of colliding with one actually improve just by standing still.

This raises the chances of an easing in French and German rates before the year end.

This promises well for Carlos' chances in the rest of the race. We had a feeling he'd be in top shape after finishing well in the Tour and later having the time to prepare himself and spend time with his family without being troubled by injuries, illness or stressful contract negotiations. But just before a race starts you always get a little nervous anyway.

When you're a major college football coach and your son is a major college football player, the chances of being together for the holidays are slim to none. But we had talked about this happening.

We had chances early in the game. We had first and third with one out in the first inning and we had second and third with nobody out in the second inning and we only got one out of that. I thought we hit the ball decent. But against a team like that, you've got to score more than four runs.

We had chances early but they scored five minutes into the second half and that just destroyed us.

We had chances early, but they hurt us on the offensive boards. They get out on the break and we feed that when we turn the ball over like we did.' It's hard to get anything out of a game like this. We've got a big character game tomorrow in San Antonio.

We had chances early, and we had them late. We played good defense, and we'll be in any game we play.

We had chances at Nos. 3 and 5. We just needed to close out the second set, and we could have gone up 3-2. We would have been one point away. Texas Tech did a great job extending the matches to win.

We had chances and didn't put it in play, and I thought we had missed out. But the girls kept hitting it and putting it in play.

We had chances all night long. We made a couple of mistakes that affected the outcome of the game, but that's baseball. And that's baseball against the Palm Beach Cardinals.

When I look back, there were chances I could have taken and didn't. In the second set especially, I didn't have my usual fight to the end. It wasn't any particular point, but a little here and there made a big difference.

When I look at the tape, I would like to think we may have had a few more chances in the game overall. But this is not an easy place to play. We felt we needed to come away with a point or three and we accomplished that.

When I came to the industry, many directors like Krishna Vamsi and Puri Jagannath had encouraged me a lot. Krishna Vamsi is my mentor, and I admire him. That's why I give chances to new directors.

What I can say is that the overall atmosphere of the sport is such that there are a lot of reasons that people on the outside should be optimistic about our chances of reaching an agreement.

We were creating chances we just weren't finishing and on the defensive side of things we made a few mistakes that their leading scorer capitalized on.

When you beat a team on a 10-game win streak, that's a great win. We had chances to get it to 16, 18, 20 and we're just not capable of it yet.

When things don't go right for a closer, the game is usually over. You don't get many second chances that particular day. People go away with a bad taste in their mouth." ()

Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.

Like his parents, Tristan is a fighter and we know they are going to get through this. Although the chemotherapy treatment is a good way to bring leukemia into remission, doctors and experts alike have said the best chances of survival lie with a successful bone marrow transplant.

Macomb doesn't have a great deal of size. They don't seem to score a lot of points, but they do create a lot of points and scoring chances off their defense. Our scouts were pretty impressed.

Losses don't come much tougher than this one. We outplayed them the whole game, but two mistakes cost us. We had some great scoring chances but we didn't finish.

Losing the first period 3-1 was an irritating factor to me. We had some chances to score and there were some things that were out of our control. Those are the factors that we want to fight and we will fight. Everyone in the dressing room is going to fight together. We don?t want to accept mediocrity.

Last year, they took our chances away for the championship. We're going to be really fired up.

Many Veterans Committee members have spoken publicly or privately against letting Rose in. Some have even threatened to boycott the Hall of Fame ceremonies if he is elected. So his best chances of getting into the Hall are during the next two years.

Many attorneys didn't want overseas assignments because they were negatively impacting their chances for becoming partner back home.

Shark fishing is not like tuna fishing. Your chances of catching one are good.

(Scott) has a strong desire to score. He's a very good one-on-one player and we've noticed that we've been getting a lot of one-on-one chances so far this year. Moving him up to forward helped stretch the defense and gave us a lot of room for chances.

Second chances hurt us. They got a couple of second chance rebounds on us and that was the difference in us making the plays at the end.

Sentencing is prolonged to exercise some leverage over the defendants. I don't think the defendants are in any great hurry either. If they testify, the chances of the government coming to bat for them later on for a reduction in sentence is greatly enhanced.

So long as the two sides can have a sober head to face the overall situation and handle the existing problems with a pragmatic attitude, can they seek the opportunities and promote the positive and sound development of the bilateral relations. Otherwise, they will miss the chances or even make historical mistakes.

She was on fire. You kind of knew that was going to happen. They were coming off of a loss and she had a bad game. Chances are that she's not going to have three bad games in a row.

She?s just hoping, being optimistic I guess. I talked to her (Monday) night. I just told her I?d pray for her. If she broke it, the chances of her coming back and actually being productive are slim. It?s just terrible.

Some of it is addressed by sheer numbers. If you graduate more doctors, that will up the chances that we will have more here.

She got her son named Robinson. But when little Ray ((Ray Jr.)) went out there, he was pushed to the back. Just like Leonard. Just took Ray's glory. Millie doesn't care who doesn't like what. She keeps Ray shut away because somebody would see how bad off he is. Evelyn says it's bad. My chances of ever seeing Ray again are poor. If I didn't have Jesus, I wouldn't survive. I would lose my mind. It would hurt me not to be able to even talk to Ray. It brings tears to my eyes just to think about him. I want to do what's right, but what is right these days?

Since the summer, Markko has been happier at the wheel of the 307 WRC and the engineers at Peugeot Sport have a clearer understanding of the sort of set-up that suits him. Everything's moving in the right direction and that's the main thing, both with a view to defending Peugeot's chances in its bid to win the manufacturers' title as well as to maintaining our own, very real chance of finishing in the top-three in the drivers' championship. We haven't given up!

Since we've been home, it's only been the one game where we scored any runs. We're missing out on a lot of chances and not hitting with men in scoring position. Everybody is frustrated that we're not swinging the bats better.

Since many voice recorders lack significant storage capability, the typical approach is simply to move data off the recorder to a DDS format tape, increasing the chances of significant issues surfacing by moving the data.

She pitched fabulous (Friday night). She did a good job changing speeds. Her fastball inside was working well and keeping people off the plate. And when we had chances to go outside, she made pitches on the outside corner.

She really wants to compete. I would say her chances of competing tomorrow are 90 percent.

She (Kaufman) is coming with more speed, control and picking her pitches better. She is giving her defense chances to help her.

Most trials have a clear outcome, guilty or innocent, so the chances of this happening are pretty small to begin with.

Most people can understand that these chances don't come around very often. To win one, two, three and now maybe four in a row, it says it all.

Mike's pitched very well for us. Their kid pitched very well too. We had a couple chances and couldn't get the big hit. It was just one of those games.

Mike?s in really good shape. I don?t want to sound overconfident, but his chances look really good to three-peat.

Missouri began the game with high pressure and it took us a moment to settle down. We were caught a little of guard in the beginning of the game. Missouri played with strong discipline as individuals and as a team, but it was still an evenly played game. Despite not having our best performance, we were always in the game and had several chances to pick up the victory.

Missed opportunities. We had our chances and we didn't execute. We didn't play well today. We missed a lot of signs and the kids took themselves out of a lot of innings. We need to play a complete game and we haven't done that.

Momentum for the yen is good. Fukui's comments and this newspaper report fed speculation about a March policy move, increasing the chances of a rate hike by the end of the year.

Maybe we were a little flat. We didn't create enough chances to merit a win. We were never really a threat to win the game.

One of our goals was to keep them off the glass. Early in the game, they were getting some second chances and our key was to put a body on them, get the rebound, and get the ball down the court.

No one is giving up, but it is the acceptance that the actual real chances of finding someone alive are almost nil.

One thing that I think we should have done more was run the football. In the past, I've been very stubborn, and we should have given (Bines and Hicks) more chances to carry the ball. We have the ability to run the football and control the clock, and we have to do that and keep our defense off the field.

One thing that I think we should have done more was run the football, ... In the past, I've been very stubborn, and we should have given (Bines and Hicks) more chances to carry the ball. We have the ability to run the football and control the clock, and we have to do that and keep our defense off the field.

My father passed away a few days before my election. This man, an African American born to a poor single mother in 1936 in the South, would worry in the last years of his life that he had better life chances when he was growing up than a young man born in the same circumstances would have today.

My fault on the first (goal) and then we let another mistake happen and we're down 2-0 and that's exactly what we didn't want to do against these guys because they're a disciplined team, they work hard and they're tough to get chances against.

Now we know that it also reduces the long-term chances of dying from the disease.

Now the game has changed and there's a greater risk of capital loss. Banks won't take as many chances now.

Neither team had great chances to score. When they had their half chance, they got it done, and when we got our half chance we got it done.

Obviously, the present leadership has had enough chances to do that and have failed. I believe she will bring new light on this issue.

Obviously nothing is 100 percent effective. But we know that doing nothing is 100 percent ineffective. You can try a variety of different devices or electronic monitoring systems, but at the end of the day, if you don't have somebody on the ground who is able to distinguish what is normal and what is out of the ordinary, your chances of defeating those terrorists is pretty slim.

Obviously, if I had thought that the chances were great for mass suicide, I never would have approved the plan,

Obviously, Ferrero's one of the best players in the world, ... My chances wouldn't have been so good against him. But Clement has been struggling a little bit. It's probably an easier match than it would have been against Ferrero.

Nobody wants to take their chances with a tough 2-0 17-year-old. You lose to a 17-year-old, it's kind of like degrading to them if they lose to a kid.

Nobody wants to hear it, but I am here now for the third time saying we have played well, we have created chances and we still got beaten.

Richard Pryor was the Rosa Parks of comedy. He took risks and chances that made it possible for a whole generation of comics to exist. No one ever rocked the mike like Richard Pryor.

People want to see things on tables and hanging up. If things are neatly displayed and easy to see, the chances of selling are much greater.

Pepe has an advantage because the team in front of him in defense are working so hard to restrict the chances we concede. The back four have been outstanding. They are organized and have better concentration than last season. But he is also an intelligent boy and he thinks hard about what he has to do in England.

My swing felt great so I was firing at every pin no matter where it was. I had a few chances but it was a lovely day for me so I can't complain.

On fourth down, you have to go to a guy who can make a play for you. On fourth-and-17, what are the chances -- 5 percent? You go to the guy who has a chance to make a play -- go up and get it.

Nick had to be the star, and he was. I thought we played pretty well systematically, but they had some great chances and he never flinched.

On paper, it looks really good. But we still have to win our division, and then take out chances in the playoffs. If there's one thing I like, it's the pitching staff. I think that was the key for us last season. We have the potential to score more runs this year, especially with a proven guy like Jim (Thome) in the lineup. But with our pitching, they're not going to need a lot of help on most nights.

On the ice, it's not a big deal. We're just worried about the chances of it getting worse. Right now, I don't see it.

On some levels, our sport is self-policing in that if you make a mistake and get into someone, chances are they'll settle the score. It may not happen at the next race, or the one after, but somewhere down the road it all usually evens out.

On 'Sanjay and Craig,' I've had a number of chances to work with Chris Hardwick, and that is so much fun.

One of the reasons for having two engines is so you can have two almost totally independent systems -- separate fuel feeds, separate ignition systems -- just as kind of a backup, ... So the chances of two of them failing simultaneously makes us very curious about the cause.