“I think I was very lucky that I didn't get well-known until my early thirties. If it had happened when I was younger, you might have seen me falling out of nightclubs. I think I conducted myself as a much better human being because I was already married when all that came along (I got married five months after I got the role as Will).” IfsThinkingHumansWellsMightFallHuman BeingsKnownRolesFiveHappenedMonthsLuckyMarriedWell KnownGet WellNightclubs Author:Eric McCormack
“I cannot overstate how much a generous spirit contributes to good luck. Look at the luckiest people around you, the ones you envy, the ones who seem to have destiny falling habitually into their laps. If they're anything like the fortunate people I know, they're prepared, they're always working at their craft, they're alert, they involve their friends in their work, and they tend to make others feel lucky to be around them.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsLooksSeemsSpiritFallDestinyLuckyLuckPreparedEnvyCraftsGenerosityFortunateGenerousLapGood LuckAlways WorkingGenerous Spirit Book:The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life Source: The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
“A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.” WayPersonsBookMomentsValuesFallLuckyIndependentFortuneAccidentsPreciseUnluckyHappy Accidents Book:The Works of Walter Pater Source: The Works of Walter Pater
“I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.” FeelsWritingI CanJobsFallLeftLuckySqueezing Author:Karen Thompson Walker
“Every drama school in the country turned me down, and so I was lucky to study drama at all, even if it was lowly Birmingham University. But even when I came out with my degree, my mother promptly insisted I go straight to secretarial college to have something to fall back on, just in case - which didn't exactly fill me with confidence.” IfsCountrySchoolMotherFallCasesStudyCollegeDramaLuckyDegreesDown AndUniversityFall BackBirmingham Author:Tamsin Greig
“We were lucky to get Sam Jackson and Jeremy Irons and John McTiernan back. Long movie and hard movie to make and difficult for me because instead of working, my biggest concern was not repeating things I had done it in the previous films. And it rang notes in my head of episodic TV. A sequel is not a new movie; it's a chapter in a movie that you have already seen. Thank god Sam was there and thank god Jeremy was there. Again, it went outside the template of that series of films but it did well and made a ton of dough and the third chapter of a lot of sequels is always the one that falls down.” WellsLongMadeHardDoneFilmFallDifficultTvsLuckyConcernThirdsSeriesNotesIronThank GodChaptersFalling DownSequelsDoughSam Jackson Author:Bruce Willis
“Has it ever occurred to you how lucky you are to be alive? More than 99 percent of all the creatures that have ever lived have died without progeny, but not a single one of your ancestors falls into that group! ... Not a single one of your ancestors, all the way back to the bacteria, succumbed to predation before reproducing, or lost out in the competition for a mate.” WayFallLostAliveGroupsAtheismLuckyCreaturesPercentDiedCompetitionPositive AtheismMatesAncestorBacteriaLucky YouProgenyReproducing Author:Daniel Dennett
“History is made of empires, and the United States was by far and away the greatest, richest, and fairest empire that had every dominated the earth. Inevitably, it would fall. Empires always did. But we were lucky, you said. We got to participate in the most fascinating social experiment ever attempted.” MadeSaidStatesEarthFallSocialUnitedUnited StatesLuckyExperimentsFascinatingEmpiresLucky You Book:We Need To Talk About Kevin Source: We Need To Talk About Kevin
“You never fall in love with anyone the same way you fell in love with someone else. It's always different, every time, if you're lucky-or cursed-enough to have it happen more than once. But I've never been uncertain about love, not any of the times I found myself in it. Love is always real, even when it doesn't last.” IfsWayDifferentRealEnoughHappensLastsFallFoundLove IsLuckyFalling In LoveUncertainCursedNever Fall In Love Author:Megan Hart
“My favourite road sign is 'Falling Rocks'. What exactly am I supposed to do with that information? They may as well have a sign saying "Random accidents ahead", "Life's a lottery, Be lucky."” WellsMayHumorFunnyFallRocksInformationLuckyAccidentsFavouriteLotteryRoad SignSign Sayings Author:Jimmy Carr
“I think that we are all in the right place at the right time almost every day. It's the people who are prepared to be lucky who can take advantage of being there. How do these people position themselves to be lucky? It was Goethe who said, 'Anytime that you take the first step toward trying to achieve something in life, all manner of good things will mysteriously fall into your path to help speed you along your way.' Amen to that!” PeopleThinkingWayTryingFirstsSaidHelpingFallStepsPathAchievePositionLuckyAdvantageGood ThingsPreparedSpeedFirst StepsRight TimeRight PlaceBeing ThereAmen Author:Phil Hellmuth
“I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself. But there are always people close to me who I trust, who will scold me and pull my ears if I need it. Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.” PeopleIfsWantNeedsRealityHappensArtistFallRiskFameLuckyEarsFalling In Love Author:Shakira
“'All in the Family' took ten weeks to take off in 1971, and we were lucky to start in January, because if it had started in the regular fall season of 1970, I don't know if we would have lasted. The ratings didn't take off until the end of that fall season, when the other two networks ran out of fresh shows.” IfsKnowsTwoEndsShowsFallWeekLuckyTenSeasonsRanRatingJanuaryFall Season Author:Norman Lear
“I feel like I've been lucky that I've never been put in a situation where I had to keep a serious secret. But what is true of me - and has to be true of everyone who's ever been in a family - is that our idealization of reality when we're children always has to fall apart. It's the narratives we didn't know about that pop up and redraw reality. You have to be able to integrate secrets into who you are. My family does not look now like it does when I was a kid. There was divorce. There were family secrets. There was definitely a difference between what I thought was true and what was true.” ChildrenRealityKidsFallSecretSituationSeriousLuckyMy FamilyWho You AreDivorceBeing TrueFalling ApartIntegrating Author:Patrick Somerville
“I wanted to be a playwright in college. That's what I was interested in and that's what I was moving toward, and then I had the lucky accident of falling in love with film. I was 19 or 20 that I realized films are made by people. Shooting digitally became cheaper and better. You couldn't make something that looked like a Hollywood film, but you could make something through which you could work out ideas. I was acting, but I was also conceiving the plots and operating the camera when I wasn't onscreen. I got very unvain about film acting, and it became a sort of graduate school for me.” PeopleSchoolFilmMovingFallActingCollegeLuckyFalling In LoveWork OutI RealizedGraduatesPlaywrightGraduate School Author:Greta Gerwig
“I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.” FallRiskLuckyFalling In Love Author:Shakira
“Hopefully my fan base doesn't lock me into 'Twilight,' you lose yourself. You should do things for you, and I have been really lucky to have things that really rock me and really move me falling into my lap.” ShouldHas BeensMovingFallLosesFansRocksLuckyHopefullyTwilightLocksLapLosing Yourself Author:Kristen Stewart