“Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.” PeopleIfsHardHandsFilmCertainLevelsHard WorkLuckyGloryStandingInjusticeRecognitionOscarsMixturesStanding There Author:Walter Murch
“What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.” IfsLittlesAgeCertainCrazyLuckyRitual Author:David O. Russell
“An Emraan Hashmi film has come to guarantee certain ingredients: An intense, grey central character, a beautiful girl - if he gets lucky, then two - couple of kisses, a few bold scenes, fabulous music and a climatic twist.” IfsTwoCharacterBeautifulFilmCertainGirlCoupleSceneLuckyKissingIntenseGuaranteesIngredientsGreyFabulousTwistsBeautiful Girl Author:Emraan Hashmi
“There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".” PeopleMayDoeSaidPlayCertainGamesAbilityRolesTalentLuckySkillsLuckSurfacePhysicsCardsHabitualParametersHidden Talents Author:Stanislaw Ulam
“The core for everything is to be grateful. It's literally as simple as that... I've always known that I'm lucky to be an actress, and I'm lucky to be a working actress. I'm lucky to have garnered attention for certain roles, and I'm grateful for it.” CertainSimpleAttentionKnownRolesLuckyGratefulActressesCoreBe Grateful Author:Michelle Trachtenberg
“The only thing that does change, to some degree, is [that] you have some life experiences, you suffer a certain amount and you incorporate that into your work. Not in the content of your work, but in the sensibility of your work. It's nothing that you try and do; it just happens. And if you're lucky, people buy tickets to see it, and if you're not lucky, [then] they don't like it. But that's all.” PeopleIfsTryingDoeHappensCertainSufferingAmountLuckyDegreesWorking ItLife ExperienceTicketsSensibility Author:Woody Allen
“I went to law school which is a 3-year program in the US that is focused primarily on memorizing certain doctrines and taking exams that test whether you can apply those doctrines to help prepare for the bar exam. If you are lucky, you get a few classes where you are encouraged to think more critically and read critical texts rather than just casebooks, and perhaps write a paper that is not a legal memo or brief.” IfsThinkingWritingYearsHelpingSchoolLawCertainClassLuckyPaperProgramTestsCriticalFocusedBarsDoctrineWhere You AreExamLaw SchoolLucky YouMemorizingMemosBar Exam Author:Dean Spade
“I'm an older, wall-eyed, overweight, tweedy writer who has been lucky enough to be asked to play various iterations of himself in a certain realm of popular cultutre. That gives me great joy and excitement, but I don't go to the media saying, "And I'm also the world's greatest actor."” WorldGivingHas BeensEnoughPlayJoyCertainActorsMediaWallLuckyGive MeVariousExcitementRealmsOverweightGreat Joy Author:John Hodgman
“I start songs all the time. If I weren't so lazy, I would finish them. It's like when I have a deadline I have to. I always feel very lucky that I am forced to make records at certain times. If I was forced to make 2 records a year, I would write twice as many songs. I can't make myself finish something unless I am forced” IfsFeelsWritingYearsI CanCertainSongRecordsLuckyLazyFoldsDeadline Author:Ben Folds
“There's something about when humanity goes from hoping they get lucky in finding something fermented to doing it on purpose. They don't understand what they've done until the late 1800s, but they know if they combine things in a certain way, they'll get something magic.” IfsKnowsWayDonePurposeCertainHumanityMagicLuckyFindingsLate Author:Adam Rogers
“I grew up in the church, and so I feel that God gave me certain things to do, and I'm lucky enough to kind of have figured those things out. I just don't want to die not having tried to help somebody else with what I know.” KnowsWantFeelsKindEnoughHelpingCertainDiesChurchGrewLuckyGrew UpThings To DoWanting To Die Author:James McBride
“I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.” PeopleReasonYoungArtistCertainDiesImagineWorstDangerousLuckyImagine ThatDie Young Author:Angelina Jolie
“I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects. When you're directing something that's generally two years of your life, you have to understand that. If I'm going to pour that kind of love and energy and sweat and heartache, all that juju into something, I'm going to lean into my own projects before someone else's.” IfsFeelsYearsKindTwoProblemJobsCertainEnergyMy OwnHonestLuckyProjectsDirectIncrediblesHeartacheTwo YearsSweatKinds Of LoveJuju Author:Lake Bell
“I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects.” FeelsYearsProblemJobsCertainLuckyProjectsDirectIncredibles Author:Lake Bell
“Angie [Harmon] is a beautiful and stunning woman, and we both have really good qualities that complement each other. We both look very different and we have different energies, but it really works. We're lucky. When we do scenes together, I do feel like there's a certain magic that you can't always say happens.” FeelsLooksDifferentHappensTogetherBeautifulCertainEnergyQualityMagicSceneLuckyStunningComplementGood Quality Author:Sasha Alexander
“I've been really lucky from eight years old to continue doing what I do and continue to love it. I've been able to travel all over the world. I've had experiences at my age that a lot of people haven't. So, you know, I've missed out on certain things, but in other ways I've gained, so it balances itself out.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayYearsAgeAbleCertainHavensBalanceLuckyEight Author:Elijah Wood
“I was so lucky that I got to meet certain people. It came through Roddy McDowall, who had become a photographer and would do these portraits of celebrities. Then he would get another well-known person to write a thing. He photographed me when I was 15 or 16, and he got Jason Robards to write the thing because he was sort of my mentor. And Roddy would invite me to these dinner parties that were insane. Like, Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen O'Hara and people that were just crazy. I still can't really believe that I met them.” PeopleWritingBelieveWellsPersonsStillsCertainPartyKnownCrazyMetsLuckyPhotographerDinnerInsaneInvitesMentorPortraitsWell KnownJasonSo LuckyDinner Party Author:Winona Ryder
“I might take from the current political chaos a desire to somehow reflect its essential qualities in a story - the blatant lies that get accepted with repetition; the way mass media seems to be agitating people en masse; the way, particularly, that a relatively lucky and affluent and privileged population can be undone by a certain spoiled quality; that feeling when two decent people violently disagree, because they are arguing from two non-intersecting data sets - well, the list goes on.” PeopleWayWellsTwoStoriesFeelingsSeemsMightPoliticalLyingDesireCertainQualityMediaGoes OnLuckyEssentialsMassChaosPopulationCurrentsArguingListsAcceptedDataDecentDisagreePrivilegedRepetitionSpoiledUndoneMass MediaAffluentBlatant Lies Author:George Saunders
“People who are qualified are symphonic orchestra players and jazz musicians; they're qualified to do what they do. Rock stars are lucky. It's a combination of right time, right place and having certain genes or a gimmick or whatever, but it's really not anything more than sugar. It tastes good and goes away fast.” PeopleCertainStarsPlayerRocksTasteLuckyMusicianJazzCombinationSugarGenesRight TimeOrchestraQualifiedRock StarJazz MusicRight PlaceJazz MusicianGimmicks Author:Gene Simmons
“My life is so random. Certain things I can't even explain. There's a thing about being lucky and... I feel like certain things are just, like, in your cards. I'm just walking the path that's already set.” FeelsI CanLife IsCertainPathWalkingLuckyCards Author:Michael B. Jordan
“We have many dreams and many different chapters in life and I think life is about chapters. For me, from the time I was pretty young, I always thought that if I was lucky enough to achieve my dreams and if I had financial security, at a certain point in my life I wanted to give back. I wanted, just corny as it sounds, to try and make the world a better place.” IfsThinkingWorldGivingTryingDifferentEnoughDreamWantedYoungLife IsCertainSoundAchieveSecurityLuckyFinancialChaptersBetter PlaceGiving BackCornyFinancial Security Author:Sherry Lansing