Foothold Quotes

It`s not by going into `the business,`. The business can`t be a thought. You get a foothold because you want to get a foothold as an artist. Your desire, your intensity, has to be about being a great actor or a great painter or a great musician. If that`s strong enough, it`ll lead you to good teachers and to places where you`ll learn. For me, the business wasn`t a thought. I was doing a play, and a friend in the play said, `My manager is here tonight and she wants to meet you.` And I said, `Oh.` And that`s how I got a manager.

I very much hope we score some early points and get the thing won in the first 20 minutes, as we have on previous occasions. But we all understand we`re facing a great battle here. If we`re sloppy at the set pieces, give away penalties and allow the Italians to establish a foothold in the game, we may find ourselves having to use our bench players to win, which is not a position in which we tend to find ourselves against these opponents.

Electronics today is a series of struggles. It`s satellite versus the iPod, satellite versus high-definition radio. That`s why it`s critical for satellite radio to get a foothold in the next three to five years. If it doesn`t, some other technology will render it obsolete.

Now is the time for us to strike. We must strengthen our foothold in Asia, to ensure no nation overtakes us.

And we need to maintain our foothold in the fight against terrorism and terrorist groups and respond to any degradation of Iraqi security or stability.

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.

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