Lucky Quotes - Page 28

• I've been lucky that I've been around good people, who kept me grounded and taught me.

  Anthony Joshua

  People, Taught, Grounded

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I mean, if this [film Age of Trump] wasn't on Netflix, it would be playing at some lovely art house theater on the West Side once or twice or for a week or maybe two weeks if I was lucky and then it would go away, and I'd be lucky if I could sell the DVDs off my website.

  Ava DuVernay

  Art, Mean, Two

  Source: deadline.com

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• That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.

  Quentin Crisp

  Cosmetics, Faces, Kind

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• I was extremely lucky to get this project [Brief Interviews with Hideous Men]. It was one of those things that I worked on in college. A friend of mine asked me to do a stage reading of that book and I was just completely blown away because, at that point, I was like, 'Acting's having fun with your friends and making people laugh.'

  John Krasinski

  Fun, Book, Reading

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• Steven [Soderbergh] is so generous and when I sat down to meet him for "Logan Lucky" he answered so many questions about directing, so when I was on set I tried not to bug him too much.

  Katie Holmes

  Too Much, Bugs, Sat

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Gene Kelly was a great dancer and I was lucky to be in 'Singin' in the Rain.' He was my teacher when I was 17 years old, when he was 37 years old. He taught me everything.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Teacher, Rain, Years

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• If I were retired I wouldn't know what to do because I'd have to think, well, now what is it I want to do? And what I want to do is what I'm doing. I enjoy coming up with new ideas, which if I'm lucky they might be good ideas. I enjoy seeing them take shape. And I'm having fun doing it. So I wouldn't know why I'd want to retire.

  Stan Lee

  Fun, Thinking, Ideas

  "Stan Lee on Realism in the World of Comic Heroes". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 27, 2006.

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• I've been very lucky to have had a supportive family, a great education, enormous opportunity and challenge.

  Susan Rice

  Opportunity, Challenges, Supportive

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• It was a very lucky set of incidents that led to Wham! getting a record contract - although we weren't Wham! when we got the record contract. We were nothing; we were just two friends who had written a few songs.

  George Michael

  Song, Two Friends, Records

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Andrew [Ridgeley] and I had demoed a couple of our songs very cheaply, and we weren't expecting any kind of record deal. We just walked around with our demo tape, trying to find someone to give us the money to demo properly. Instead of that, we got a record contract. It was just an incredibly lucky break.

  George Michael

  Song, Couple, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are a lot of movies I feel good about. It was a great experience that I was lucky enough to be there in it. That's the way I feel.

  Diane Keaton

  Feel Good, Way, Enough

  Source: archive.azcentral.com

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• Those of us lucky enough to have a share of privilege in the more free societies should not be asking this question, but doing something to answer it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Asking, Answers, Privilege

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Those lucky enough to qualify as "intellectuals" have their own special responsibilities, deriving from their good fortune. Among these is the task that [Edward] Said describes, surely an important one.

  Noam Chomsky

  Responsibility, Special, Important

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• The feminist movement has been important to me because it's made me feel less odd and also because it has made me understand some of the pressures on women which I was lucky enough to have escaped, perhaps because of my eccentricity or the oddness of my upbringing.

  Susan Sontag

  Feminist, Important, Movement

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I've been very lucky being in New York. While there are many things that have impacted my life, I have been able to stay here and do my own work.

  Kiki Smith

  New York, Able, Has Beens

  Source: crushfanzine.com

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• I think we knew that this would be just like raising the kids together, this would be a fun thing to do in partnership. And you know, we're so lucky because we get to hire in very smart people. We get to partner with governments like the Canadian Development Organization - CIDA, USAID - tonnes of scientists doing this work. This is fascinating.

  Bill Gates

  Fun, Smart, Kids

  Source: www.ctvnews.ca

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• I loved musicals. I loved being in the school play and being lucky enough to get parts in the school play. But they always took place in some other time and place.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  School, Play, Enough

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If you're an athlete, you might work your entire life, and you win the Super Bowl once, if you're lucky. And I feel like in the arts and entertainment we win the Super Bowl all the time.

  Judd Apatow

  Art, Athlete, Winning

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm really lucky because I surround myself onset with people who I really trust to give me feedback, so I'm directing myself.

  Lena Dunham

  People, Giving, Feedback

  Source: uproxx.com

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• I feel lucky in that the same way I've surrounded myself with people I'm creatively comfortable with, I've surrounded myself with people who are accepting of the way that I look.

  Lena Dunham

  People, Looks, Way

  Source: uproxx.com

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• My depression was mild, and I could treat it by myself and pick myself up again. But some people aren't that lucky.

  David Haye

  People, Treats, Picks

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I love what I do. I'm so lucky.

  Danielle Steel

  So Lucky

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I feel better about my life every day. My kids get older. My life is very rich and full of wonderful things. I've been very lucky, careerwise.

  Ben Affleck

  Kids, Feel Better, Life Is

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• I have the opportunity to make my films and I think that's a luxury. I don't have any problems by filming things that can have a connection with left-wing policy, even if we have a right-wing government. There are some countries which cannot say the same, so I'm lucky.

  Miguel Gomes

  Country, Thinking, Opportunity

  Source: www.takeonecff.com

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• Some day you do something where you use everything you know. You don't do it ostentatiously where you see the workings going on. But some day, if you're lucky, that will happen.

  Randy Newman

  Use, Happens, Knows

  "Randy Newman's first new song in years is about bare-chested Vladimir Putin". Interview with Geoff Edgers, www.chicagotribune.com. October 10, 2016.

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