Fortunate Quotes - Page 11

• I was very fortunate to be able to go to school and university, because many people our age couldn't complete school. This gift of education must be used in whatever ways we can to uplift the people.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Uplifting, School, People

  Source: www.tregernomics.com

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• We were really fortunate to work [on Pineapple Express] with a studio that was really supportive of these guys. It was before Superbad and Knocked Up had even come out, but everyone just felt really great about them and the energy surrounding Seth [Rogen] and Evan [Goldberg] and Judd [Apatow] - all of these guys - and the idea of getting Franco back into comedy as well.

  Seth Rogen

  Ideas, Guy, Supportive

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• I've been really fortunate where I've made stuff that connects to people on a positive level, and that makes me feel really good, but I can't feel comfortable in dictating what they're supposed to feel out of it, nor am I a professional in something where I can really help people any farther than creating the things that I make to help myself.

  Frank Iero

  Creating, People, Levels

  Source: indientry.com

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• If you think of the public lives of people who've been unlucky, it seems showbiz is some tumultuous crazy world but some are fortunate and some unfortunate. All I can do is keep striving to be better.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Stephen [King], who wrote the script himself, was on the set [of The Stand], and I was just so fortunate to get to know him. What a wonderful man. He may go down in history as the greatest American writer, pound for pound.

  Rob Lowe

  Kings, Men, May

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I came from the old world of gastronomy. Many years ago I walked into the kitchens of the Hotel St George and I feel very fortunate that I worked for chefs that were behind their stoves. I saw that world of gastronomy. I can sit here today and say that I saw the golden age of gastronomy. It's gone, it's gone. It's never going to have that anymore, once the accountants get involved the romance fades. That's the reality.

  Marco Pierre White

  Reality, Years, Romance

  Source: www.notquitenigella.com

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• My first goal was to get a job . And I did that. And I think I've just been fortunate to be surrounded by good people who believed in me as much as I believe in myself.

  George Stults

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• I feel like I've been fortunate enough that I've gotten to meet and work with some really passionate people.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  People, Passionate, Enough

  "Vanessa Hudgens Interview BEASTLY". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 28, 2011.

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• I like to try to give something back to the community because I feel fortunate for how I was raised and how my life turned out. Each year, with the help of my brother, Grant, we run a charity golf tournament to raise money for the Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy.

  Curtis Joseph

  Running, Brother, Golf

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• When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.

  Helmut Jahn

  Thinking, Coincidence, Working It

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• I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Years, Eight, People

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• And we're fortunate if we have parents who are great and loving and inspiring. But, unfortunately, there are people who don't have that.

  Keira Knightley

  People, Parent, Ifs

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• When I was doing a movie called 'The Seeker,' I was fortunate enough to be able to do a lot of my own stunts.

  Alexander Ludwig

  Able, Enough, My Own

  "Set Visit: Race to Witch Mountain". Interview with Eric Moro, www.ign.com. August 4, 2008.

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• I don't really look around and say, 'I've made it.' I just look around and think how fortunate I am to work with the people I'm working with.

  Logan Lerman

  Thinking, People, Looks

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• Winning doesn't mean my book is better than anyone else's. It means I'm very fortunate. And I should be very, very aware of that. And grateful.

  Louise Penny

  Book, Grateful, Mean

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• I was fortunate enough to have my kids early, so being a mom always ended up being a better gig than these other parts that came along. So I always justified not really working a lot because I had a family.

  Heather Langenkamp

  Mom, Kids, Gigs

  "Heather Langenkamp: It’s frustrating not to have experienced ‘Elm Street’". PopWrap Interview, pagesix.com. May 23, 2011.

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• In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.

  Trevor Nunn

  Integrity, Limits, Artistic

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• You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it.

  Oliver Platt

  Mean, Would Be, Way

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• I had a good career. I've been very fortunate.

  Johnny Ramone

  Careers

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• I've played with all of the heavyweights in the modern jazz, progressive jazz movement. I've been fortunate enough to play with them, a who's who. All of those guys, I've been fortunate enough to have performed with.

  Sonny Rollins

  Play, Guy, Heavyweights

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• I always read about these stories of entrepreneurs - it’s like they’re in the desert with no water, and they’re the ones that survive. But I’ve been really fortunate to have people on my team who are optimistic about the future and who know that if you work through hard times that there’s usually something good at the end.

  Ben Silbermann

  Team, Optimistic, Hard Times

  "Ben Silbermann, Pinterest Founder And CEO, Talks Criticism, Fears". Interview with Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.

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• I've done a lot of theater work that has been quite diverse. I feel very fortunate to have had many different people think of me in many different ways. So, as an actor that's all you - all I want is diversity. So far in film and television work I have done has not been as diverse, and I hope it grows to be.

  Michael Stuhlbarg

  Thinking, Diversity, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm fortunate enough not to be poor, and I'm not a bad tipper.

  Shepard Smith

  Enough, Poor

  "Shepard Smith: What I've Learned (with Video!)" by Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.

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• Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I've been so blessed, it's hard to look back and think anything but that, so I have no disappointments.

  Aaron Tveit

  Awards, Should Have, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like what I do, and I'm very fortunate now to be in a very nice place. Which is that I don't have to work anymore. So the work that I do now is purely because I really want to.

  Charlize Theron

  Nice, Want, Very Nice

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