“The fact of the matter is I always have a really high sense of responsibility to the reader, whether it's a few readers that I get or a lot of readers, which I was lucky enough to get with 'Olive.' I feel responsible to them, to deliver something as truthful and straight as I can.” FeelsI CanMatterEnoughFactsResponsibilityReaderLuckyResponsibleTruthfulOlivesSense Of Responsibility Author:Elizabeth Strout
“Joy is a part of my process. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that poetry, as a practice, necessitates a sense of joy. It's exhilarating to come into contact with the things we write into being. And a real sense of play and abandon even when we are relying on hard-won technique, and even when the aim is deadly serious. How often do we get the excuse to stop, think, and then stop thinking altogether and try to listen to what sits behind our outside of our thoughts? Poets are lucky.” ThinkingWritingTryingRealHardPlayFactsJoyPoetryProcessBehindsPracticeSeriousPoetLuckyAimExcuseTechniqueContactAbandonOur ThoughtsExhilarating Author:Tracy K. Smith
“I do not think everyone is created equal. In fact, I know they're not. [The Constitution] means that everyone should have the same laws as everyone else. It doesn't mean that everyone's as smart or as cute or as lucky as everyone else.” ThinkingKnowsShouldMeanFactsLawLuckyEqualSmartShould HaveConstitutionEqualityCute Author:Fran Lebowitz
“I've been very lucky to have a family who has welcomed me and not been hung up on anything racial, almost overlooking the fact that there was a racial difference. But I can honestly say I do feel like I missed out on some lessons of what the African-American experience is like growing up.” FeelsI CanFactsDifferencesGrowing UpGrowingLessonsLuckyHonestlyAfrican AmericanHungOverlooking Author:Jordan Peele
“As I'm getting older a lot of my friends I used to go out and party with, they're all dead. The fact that I've been through that, I'm not proud of the fact that I've been through all that, but it's part of my journey. I'm lucky to be alive. I'm lucky to be playing music.” FactsUsedPartyAliveJourneyProudLuckyMy FriendsGetting OldGetting OlderPlaying MusicMy JourneyLucky To Be Alive Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled trains, school shutdowns, muggers, drug addicts, neo-Nazis, and rapists. The fact is that one can come home in the evening, on a lucky day, without having encountered more than one or two of these phenomena.” WorldTwoFactsHomeTodaySchoolFacesWaterCrimeBrokenDrugLuckyNewsTrainStrikesEveningComing HomeNaziAddictAbsorbingDrug AddictMuggersLucky DayPower Failure Author:Barbara Tuchman
“All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that keyhole. In fact you're lucky if you just get your soul and yourselves through and intact.” IfsKnowsHas BeensSoulHardFactsStupidLuckyYour SoulPsychedelicDoseBaggagePsychedelic ExperienceKeyholes Author:Terence McKenna
“The fact that there are awards and exhibitions and some people know who I am is just all gravy. I'm lucky to just work in an industry where I get to play so much.” PeopleKnowsPlayFactsIndustryLuckyWho I AmAwardsExhibitionsGravy Author:Rick Heinrichs
“It's amazing how lucky Westlife were and what we achieved. It's very rare to have seven number ones in a row. Ridiculous in fact.” FactsNumbersLuckySevenRidiculousWestlife Author:Shane Filan
“I am an indie kid. I made no bones about the fact that I fell into DJing electronic music by accident, by a lucky break, but it doesn't make me any less of a fan of that music, I just never envisaged... not through a lack of confidence or belief, I just didn't think that I'd be sharing the bill with people that I was going out to see myself.” PeopleThinkingMadeFactsKidsBeliefBreakFansLuckyBillsBonesAccidentsGoing OutElectronic MusicLack Of ConfidenceLucky Breaks Author:Erol Alkan
“I definitely have friends who - they've gone to multiple jobs, they've had trouble finding jobs, some have gone back to school - it's a very transitional period in anyone's life. I think definitely people have, even like my girlfriend for example, she works her job - and just the fact that she has a job - she just feels super lucky in this economy. But it can really shape, I think, the way you view the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayFeelsFactsSchoolJobsViewsEconomyGoneTroubleExamplePeriodsShapesLuckyFindingsGirlfriendMultipleMy GirlfriendMultiple Jobs Author:Chris Baio
“People who get lucky, also tend to be really great looking, which is luck on some level, but it is also just the fact of the matter.” PeopleMatterFactsLevelsLuckyLuckReally Great Author:Chris Gethard
“The fact that [Hillary Clinton] is pushing for paid family leave and also for [affordable] childcare will make a huge difference for working women who aren't as lucky as I am to be able to hire a nanny when I work. And who aren't lucky enough to necessarily have their husbands be able to take off work. That will make a huge, huge difference.” EnoughFactsAbleDifferencesHugeLuckyHusbandPaidClintonPushingAffordableNanniesWorking WomenChildcare Author:Natalie Portman
“We were very, very lucky [with Tim White filmed making historic discoveries in the East African Rift ] . In 100 years, only three skeletal remains [of early man] were ever found at this site. This was the third one, and we were right there when it happened. In fact, when I first heard they had found something, I said, "Please stop it! Don't do anything right now. Let's do it tomorrow until we have unpacked our cameras and assembled our stuff.” MenYearsFirstsSaidFactsThreeFoundStuffWhiteHappenedHeardTomorrowPleaseRight NowLuckyDiscoveryThirdsCamerasRemainsEastSiteHistoricRift Author:Werner Herzog
“The fact is that in my prep school, I went to a boarding school, 39 young men graduated from that prep school. Five years later, a quarter of us were in SDS, in Students for Democratic Society. Not because we were particularly chosen or because we were as I say, we were lucky but we were mainly luckily to grow up at a time where this black freedom movement was really defining the moral character of what it meant to be a citizen and a person.” MenYearsPersonsCharacterFactsSchoolYoungGrowsBlackMoralGrowing UpFiveMovementStudentsCitizensLuckyDemocraticChosenYoung ManFive YearsMeant To BeQuartersDefiningDemocratic SocietyMoral CharacterPreps Author:Bill Ayers
“I feel like talking to people who don't tour, when you talk about touring - obviously we're super blessed and very lucky to be doing what we do - but there are so many weird things that could never happen anywhere else. When I talk to people who don't tour they look at me like I'm being bratty and complaining about this job that I have. It's not that! It's the fact that when I'm home I can exercise every day, I can cook myself good meals, then when I'm on the road for a long time it's like, "There's a Subway. I guess I'm eating a bowl full of lettuce because I don't eat McDonalds."” PeopleFeelsLooksLongI CanFactsHomeHappensJobsTalkingExerciseLuckyEatingLong TimeBlessedComplainingCooksMealsBowlsLook At MeTouringSubwayMcdonaldsWeird ThingsLettuceGood Meals Author:Bethany Cosentino