Lucky Quotes - Page 11

• We are very lucky really, because we can create our own reality, John [Lennon] and me, but we know the important thing is to communicate with other people.

  Yoko Ono

  Reality, People, Important

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Lucky people create, notice, and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives.

  Richard Wiseman

  Opportunity, People, Chance

  Richard Wiseman (2004). “Change Your Luck: The Scientific Way to Improve Your Life”, American Media (CA)

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• It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.

  D. H. Lawrence

  May, Rich, Born

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• Their forward got a lucky squeeze from the defender.

  Ron Atkinson

  England, Defenders

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

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• I give everything to my work, and I like complex roles, characters that aren't obvious. I've been very lucky so far, and I'm dreaming of working with directors like Jane Campion, Susanne Bier and the Dardennes. But the gods will decide.

  Eva Green

  Dream, Character, Giving

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• It's a very specific body. Even great reviews will be like: chubby, portly, overweight. . . . Sometimes I'm like, 'Ugh, how did I make myself the guinea pig for this?' But on the other hand, hating my body has not been my cross to bear in this life. Which I feel very lucky about.

  Lena Dunham

  Hate, Hands, Pigs

  "Lena Dunham's Glamour April Issue Cover-Shoot" by Jonathan Bernstein, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2017.

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• I just feel incredibly lucky. I went to drama school and about 28 of us graduated. I graduated from drama school in 2000, and I would say about two of us are working and able to make a living out of it. It is a tough profession. To have the kind of success I have had is really amazing, and I am incredibly grateful.

  Naomie Harris

  Drama, Grateful, School

  "Naomie Harris Interview THE FIRST GRADER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 11, 2011.

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• I was very lucky to have had the opportunity to tour with the Beastie Boys and watched almost every set they played on all those dates. Why not? You do your set and then you get to see the Beasties play? Best deal in town.

  Henry Rollins

  Boys, Opportunity, Play

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• I'm so lucky to have been raised the way I have, because my parents believed that everyone had the right to their own feelings, opinions, and existence; as long as they weren't harming others, you had to defend those rights.

  George Clooney

  Rights, Long, Parent

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• I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.

  George Clooney

  Mistake, Turkeys, Careers

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• I was lucky, you know, I always had a beautiful girl and the money was good. Although I would have done the whole thing over for, oh, perhaps half.

  Bob Hope

  Beautiful, Girl, Done

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm often asked, "What is your favorite moment during the 30 years you hosted [The Tonight Show]?" I really don't have just one. The times I enjoyed the most were the spontaneous, unplanned segments that just happened, like Ed Ames' infamous "Tomahawk Toss" that produced one of the longest laughs in television history. When these lucky moments happen, you just go with them and enjoy the experience and high of the moment.

  Johnny Carson

  Years, Laughing, Tonight

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

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• I'd be in the backyard minding my own business. The other kids would call me names, like meatball head or neo-Calvinist. I'd run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap my neck back.

  Emo Philips

  Running, Kids, Names

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• There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind.

  Mort Sahl

  Years, Two, Secret

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• You're lucky to head a coalition government. I am a coalition government on my own.

  John Major

  Government, Coalitions, My Own

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• I met Gary (Burton) at the Wichita Jazz Festival when I was 18 -- he was one of my favorite musicians and I got to play a few tunes with him there. Shortly after that, I joined his band, which was the equivalent of joining the Beatles for me! He was, and still is, one of the greatest musicians I have ever been lucky enough to be around.

  Pat Metheny

  Play, Musician, Tunes

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• A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Opportunity, Wish, Done

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• I was really, really lucky because I have always worked. It hasn't always been consistent, but I have always worked.

  Gwendoline Christie

  Consistent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was so lucky that I didn't have to audition. It's just such a grueling process, in itself.

  Moon Bloodgood

  Auditions, Process, So Lucky

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look down in the audience and I see somebody singing the words back to me, it makes it all worth it.

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Singing, Looks

  "Country singer Taylor Swift takes 'Fearless' approach to stardom". Interview with Nekesa Mumbi Moody, www.metro.us. May 28, 2009.

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• I'm so lucky that my songs are basically my diary put to music.

  Taylor Swift

  Song, Diaries, So Lucky

  "Q&A: Taylor Swift's 'Fearless' approach to stardom". Interview with Nekesa Mumbi Moody, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. May 27, 2009.

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• Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything. I'm super lucky because I come home and I don't have to run errands and clean the house and do all that. Some women have all of this to do, too. And they manage and they live longer. How we do that, I don't know.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Running, Real, Home

  Source: collider.com

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• Everyone who's ever met Guillermo Del Toro knows that he's the most generous, creative, mind-bogglingly wonderful man. And I was so lucky that he had seen Storytelling and he asked me to do Hellboy. And then I watched Devil's Backbone and I was blown away.

  Selma Blair

  Men, Creative, Wonderful

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• Sometimes I think that I stay young and in touch with contemporary culture because of my children's interests. I'm so lucky to be surrounded by their talent and vibrancy.

  Polixeni Papapetrou

  Children, Thinking, Culture

  "Stories from the Other Side: Polixeni Papapetrou Exhibits at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, NYC". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. April 29, 2013.

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• Hamburg is getting a new symbol with its new Elbe Philharmonic concert hall. Such an architecturally impressive building is built somewhere in the world maybe once every five years, if you're lucky.

  Charles Landry

  Years, World, Building

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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