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It's a crapshoot, publishing.
It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway.
In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.
The Pulitzer is a crapshoot. Your piece has to hit a few people the right way at the right moment.
You don't ever know with films. You just hope for the best, but sometimes it's a bit of a crapshoot.
Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the show.'
The draft is a crapshoot, so I've been very fortunate to be drafted by the Yankees, and to have spent my whole career here.
I feel like, by now, if you don't understand that the playoffs can be somewhat of a crapshoot sometimes, then you don't watch enough baseball.
Every film is a crapshoot. It's a mystery when a movie comes together. I've never been able to figure it out. I don't know how I make my choices. The only thing you can do is know there's something about a character that you really want to experience.
I think things that are really, really not good are easy to see. But films that are decent can either be made good or great based on the execution. At the end of the day, it's always a crapshoot about the execution, the level of taste, in any department.
A person might see that I've blurbed a certain book and decide they want nothing to do with it! Like, 'If that reprobate Toews likes it, forget it!' So, it's a crapshoot. But it feels good to be able to praise a book that I love or that has been written by a new writer.