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• The best things that have ever happened to me have not been the result of anything I have done. Some might say that is luck. I call them blessings and in some cases miracles.

  Tom Krause

  Blessed, Blessing, Miracle

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• Politicians have to make unpopular decisions. Schwarzenegger is going to understand the nature of his job. I wish him good luck, he's going to need it. It's going to be difficult for him.

  Clint Eastwood

  Jobs, Good Luck, Decision

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• Now, if we understand what unlucky persons are, we shall see that they are to be shunned, or that we are to consort with them only out of kindness or from sympathy, but without joining our interests with theirs; for they are persons who are not harmonious with the condition of things around them, and are as much at issue with life as a bird who should try to live in the water, or a fish to float in the air.

  James Vila Blake

  Kindness, Issues, Air

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• The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Kindness, Condolences, Opportunity

  Patricia Wentworth (1992). “The Ivory Dagger”, Perennial

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• It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Reality, Joy, Nerves

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• There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.

  Clive Owen

  Elements, Huge

  "Any actor who thinks he's a sex symbol has got serious problems". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2009.

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• Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Failure, Superstitions, Steps

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.340, Penguin

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• But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude, retreat to the companionship of moon, water, hills and trees. Retreat, he reminds us, should not be confused with escape. And take these poems along for good luck!

  Robert Graves

  Confused, Good Luck, Moon

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• Against ill chances men are ever merry,
  But heaviness foreruns the good event.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Events, Anticipation

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 2, l. 81

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• If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

  Daniel Bruhl

  Real, Character, Play

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• My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

  Sam Shepard

  Dad, Suffering, Disappointing

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• People who are successful should never forget that its 90 per cent luck. Youve got to be an eejit to be an egomaniac. I had my glory years - Blankety Blank, the talk show, when I was winning every award going.

  Terry Wogan

  Successful, Winning, Awards

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• I believe you make your own luck. My motto is ‘It’s always a mistake not to go.’ So I jump on the airplane, try new things—sometimes I get in way over my head, but then I think, I’ll work my way out of this somehow. A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning…The thing I love about living in New York is that I never fail to get up in the morning and think, Something adventurous is going to happen today. The energy is operating at full throttle all the time. And if you want to be lucky you’ve got to go out and take advantage of it.

  Tom Brokaw

  Morning, New York, Mistake

  "Tom Brokaw: 'I'm The Luckiest Guy in the World'" by Kathleen Mccleary, parade.com. May 1, 2015.

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• Talent is to actors what luck is to card players. Its not really anything; its just a fictitious word that people have created and labeled things. Talent is like, you know, I never really believed in talent, I believed in drive and determination and preparation, but talent is sort of like luck.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Determination, Player, People

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• There's something about 'Strictly Come Dancing.' Everywhere I go, people wish me good luck; cabbies toot their horns. It's lovely. I have a theory: in straitened times, there's nothing like a bit of unapologetic escapism.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Good Luck, People, Dancing

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• I really fell into drama school - I had a lot of lot of luck. I didn't take criticism very well while I was there; in fact, I took it personally. With every note I got, I felt like they were telling me I was a bad person.

  Charlie Cox

  Drama, School, Criticism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every man, even the most blessed, needs a little more than average luck to survive this world.

  Vance Bourjaily

  Blessed, Men, Average

  VANCE BOURJAILY (1967). “THE MAN WHO KNEW KENNEDY”

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• Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.

  Karen Finerman

  Nice, Waiting, Serendipity

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• Luck happens when preparedness and opportunity get together.

  Venita VanCaspel

  Opportunity, Together, Preparedness

  Venita VanCaspel (1988). “Money Dynamics for the 1990s”, Simon & Schuster

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• Batman is not a very interesting character. For any actor. There is simply not much to play. I think Michael Keaton did it the best, and I wish good luck to Ben Affleck. But, you know who would have made a great Batman? Alec Baldwin in the '80s.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Character, Good Luck, Thinking

  "Quentin Tarantino Shares Criticism Of 'The Lone Ranger,' Thoughts On Ben Affleck As Batman & More". Les Inrockuptibles Interview, www.indiewire.com. October 10, 2013.

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• Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Believe, Deserve

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• When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

  Mario Benedetti

  Worry, Able, Affair

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• If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.

  Jay McInerney

  Generations, Fleeting, Occupation

  "The butterfly crusher" by Jay McInerney, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2007.

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• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene its not one-on-one, its a one-on-12. Its very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  Feist

  Broken, People, Healthy

  "Is this it?". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. February 29, 2008.

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• One might just as well trust in the "good luck" of a rabbit's foot as to hope for spiritual benefit from a Catholic scapular, medal, crucifix, or relic of an alleged "saint."

  Dave Hunt

  Spiritual, Good Luck, Feet

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