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“You spend your life dreaming, running 'round in a trance, You hang out forever and still miss the dance, And if you get lucky, you might find someone, To help you get over the pain that will come.”

Ifs Stills Helping Dream Might Running Pain Forever Missing Lucky Rounds Hanging Out Get Over Trance Lucky You

Author:Tom Petty

“You start at the stupid end of the book, and if you're lucky you finish at the smart end.”

Ifs Book Ends Stupid Lucky Smart Lucky You

Author:Salman Rushdie

“If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice. But he will make any one of ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original.”

Ifs Men Mistake Wise Brother Thousand Lucky Ten Originals Cousin Same Mistakes

Author:Jesse Lauriston Livermore

“I don't know why I've always loved makeup so much. It helps me get ready for my day and the stage. It really does make a huge difference. We're just so lucky as women to be able to wear it. If you're having a bad day you can change that. Guys don't have a choice and just have to face the world like that. Could you imagine?”

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Author:Gwen Stefani

“Hamburg is getting a new symbol with its new Elbe Philharmonic concert hall. Such an architecturally impressive building is built somewhere in the world maybe once every five years, if you're lucky.”

Ifs World Years Five Building Lucky Built Symbols Five Years Halls Concerts Impressive

Author:Charles Landry

“If you are lucky enough to be successful, you get drawn further in and you stop paying attention to the stuff that matters.”

Ifs Matter Enough Stuff Attention Successful Lucky Pay Attention Being Successful Stuff That Matters

Author:David Macaulay

“If you're lucky enough to experience love, what you find is that it can sustain you through the most difficult times.”

Ifs Enough Difficult Lucky Difficult Times Experience Love

Author:Denise Di Novi

“Writing is always a solitary experience, but living, if you're lucky, is not.”

Ifs Writing Lucky Solitary

Author:Beth Harbison

“I can't work on something if I don't believe in it. I love music, and I am inspired to work harder and spend more energy. I feel lucky that I was born with this passion.”

Ifs Feels Believe I Can Passion Energy Born Hard Work Lucky Harder Inspired Don't Believe Music Love Work Harder I Love Music Inspired To Work

Author:Carolina Kostner

“My acting is a bit like basketball. Most females in my films come off very well. I give great assist. And if I'm lucky, I even score.”

Ifs Giving Wells Film Bits Acting Lucky Basketball Female Score

Author:Burt Reynolds

“I grew up in different orphanages in Israel, and if they gave me a pair of shoes, a shirt, and pair of pants every year, I was lucky. The rest was handouts, leftover clothes. So I appreciated clothes because I only had one new shirt each year.”

Ifs Years Different Grew Lucky Clothes Grew Up Shoes Israel Shirts Pairs Pants Appreciated Pair Of Shoes Orphanage Handouts

Author:Elie Tahari

“I'm living in a dream. I really consider myself really lucky. I was born and raised in Guatemala, in a village, where to go to the market you have to take two buses or drive about 20 minutes if you are lucky enough to have a car. I grew up very, very poor and I didn't even know that being an actor could be a career.”

Ifs Knows Two Enough Dream Actors Born Poor Careers Minutes Car Grew Lucky Grew Up Raised Village Bus Born And Raised Guatemala

Author:Erick Chavarria

“If you are not lucky enough, you can't reach the future! You might be very intelligent, you might be very talented and a very good planner, but you still need 'luck' to reach tomorrow, you still need to be lucky to reach the future!”

Ifs Needs Stills Enough Might Tomorrow Lucky Intelligent Luck Very Good Planners

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If you want to be lucky, do your homework.”

Ifs Want Lucky Homework

Book:Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets

Source: Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets

“Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate just as they do in practical affairs; and lucky it is if the passion be not something as petty as a love of personal conquest over the philosopher across the way.”

Ifs Men Way May Whole Form Passion Opinion Taste Lucky Philosophical Affair Philosopher Intellect Practicals Conquest Petty

Book:Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

Source: Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

“If pregnancy were a book, they would cut the last two chapters. The beginning is glorious, especially if you're lucky enough not to have morning sickness and if, like me, you've had small breasts all your life. Suddenly they begin to grow, and you've got them, you've really got them, breasts, darling breasts, and when you walk down the street they bounce, truly they do, they bounce bounce bounce.”

Ifs Two Book Enough Lasts Grows Walks Morning Cutting Streets Lucky Like Me Glorious Sickness Breasts Pregnancy Chapters Darling Bounce Morning Sickness

Book:Heartburn

Source: Heartburn

“There are some who ask us to believe that if we want the best of times for ourselves, the fit and the fortunate, then we'll just have to learn to live with the worst of times for millions of other Americans - that we're doomed to be a nation of the lucky and the left-out. I don't believe it. My mother didn't believe it. Your ancestors didn't believe it. And I don't think you should believe it.”

Ifs Thinking Want Should Believe Mother Asks Left Nations Millions Worst Fit Lucky Don't Believe Fortunate Ancestor Doomed Left Out

Author:Mario Cuomo

“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.”

People Ifs Want Needs Reality Happens Artist Fall Risk Fame Lucky Ears Falling In Love

Author:Shakira

“The problem was that Panama technically belonged to Colombia, which refused to sign a treaty leasing it to the United States. So Roosevelt sent a gunboat filled with marines down to Panama, just on the off chance that a revolution might suddenly break out, and darned if one didn't, two days later. Not only that, but the leaders of the new nation of Panama-talk about lucky breaks!-were absolutely thrilled to have the United States build a canal there. 'Really, it's our pleasure,' they told the marines, adding, 'Don't shoot.'”

Source: Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

“A guy said to me, 'You're so lucky. You have people like Ray Charles, Barbra Streisand and The Beatles doing your songs.' I figured out, though, the harder I work the luckier I get. The secret of anything is to surround yourself with good people if you want a good product.”

People Ifs Want Said Guy Song Secret Products Lucky Harder Surround Rays Good People Surround Yourself So Lucky Lucky You Streisand Surround Yourself With Good People

Author:Buck Owens

“I think in this world and this industry, if you let it, it does. And I feel that the people who don't have good friends and family around them are the ones who get a little funny. But I'm very lucky. I have good friends and good family and if I ever stepped out of line, my mom would take me down!”

People Ifs Thinking World Feels Littles Doe Lines This World Mom Industry Lucky My Mom Take Me Good Friend Family And Friends Good Family

Author:Jeremy Irvine

“TV tends to be like, if you're lucky, it's like Las Vegas. You can't get out. There's always another pitch meeting. They keep you on the casino floor. If I'm unlucky, if I'm lucky enough to be unlucky, I would love to write a movie.”

Ifs Writing Enough Tvs Lucky Meetings Vegas Las Vegas Casinos Unlucky

Author:Dan Harmon

“Whatever grade I get, even though I do try my best, I'll be happy with. I feel so lucky to have done all the jobs I've done to this point. So, if I continue to work it will be amazing. But I'm going to see how it goes.”

Ifs Feels Trying Done Jobs Lucky Grades Working It So Lucky

Author:Yasmin Paige

“My great love is the stage because I do feel like it's the place where, if you're lucky and everything is firing in the right way, you have the greatest shot at being successful. I don't mean by getting great reviews, but I mean by finding the core fo the person that you're playing.”

Ifs Way Feels Mean Persons Love Is Successful Stage Lucky Findings Shots Core Being Successful Reviews Right Way Great Love Firing

Author:Sarah Paulson

“If you are lucky and reverent, and hush for a moment the doubts in your head, sometimes God will whisper in your ear.”

Ifs Sometimes Moments Doubt Lucky Ears Gods Will Hush

Author:John Graves

“I met Jason Mraz when he had a concert in Korea as a cover contest winner of his songs! He was super nice to even tune the guitar that I also won from the contest for me and we decided to jam to one of his hit songs, ”Lucky”. I actually don’t remember how I was able to sing because I was so nervous at the time but it would also be a dream come true if i can have the honor to share the stage with Jason Mraz one day!”

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Author:Megan Lee

“I dread the day I leave [Doctor Who], because then I'll have to go back to writing bedrooms and offices and pubs. And maybe a field, if I'm lucky.”

Ifs Writing Fields Lucky Office Doctors Dread Bedroom Doctor Who Pubs

Author:Russell T Davies

“If you go through life and actually get to find out the thing you want to do, you're very lucky.”

Ifs Want Lucky

Author:Dallas Campbell

“It's like that old expression: "Men plan and god laughs." You sort of see that in the television world, where you have an idea where things are heading and you have a plan and sort of start off in that general direction, but you wind up taking all these side paths and whatnot - if you're lucky.”

Ifs Men World Ideas Sides Laughing Path Plans Television Expression Wind Lucky Headings

Author:Vince Gilligan

“If you're lucky enough to get to play a character for a long time, it's life-changing.”

Ifs Long Enough Play Character Lucky Long Time Life Changing

Author:Paula Malcomson

“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.”

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Author:Lake Bell

“Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.”

Ifs Government Form Belief Novel Humility Lucky Curious Customs Traveler Forms Of Government Unfamiliar Cuisine

Author:Paul Fussell

“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.”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Soul Hard Facts Stupid Lucky Your Soul Psychedelic Dose Baggage Psychedelic Experience Keyholes

Author:Terence McKenna

“A lot of the things I did - it's not going to sound anything but egotistical - if I'm lucky and I did the right thing, they will be at Zara way before I can get them in the store, and I don't like that.”

Ifs Way I Can Sound Lucky Stores Right Thing Egotistical Zara

Author:Tom Ford

“If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

Ifs Way Life Enough Inspiration Courage Love You Inspire Lucky Luck Good Luck I Hate You Owen Meany Lucky Day

Book:The world according to Garp

Source: The world according to Garp

“People nowadays talk about issues as if they're reading lines off a teleprompter. They recite what they read and echo it without thinking. It has become easier to divide people than to unify them, and to blind them than to give them vision. We are no longer unified like a bowl of Cheerios. Instead, we have become as segregated as a box of Lucky Charms. Every day we see the same leprechauns on TV acting like they're the experts of everything.”

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Author:Suzy Kassem

“I feel really lucky to have found musical success before I'm 30, to be doing absolutely what I want to do. I would be quite happy if I died tomorrow.”

Ifs Want Feels Would Be Found Tomorrow Lucky Died Musical

Author:Dido Armstrong

“On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.”

Ifs Night Sound Fire Doors Car Lucky Police Broadway Rip Envelopes Sidewalk Police Cars

Book:Tom Stoppard in Conversation

Source: Tom Stoppard in Conversation

“There is a lot of hype about drama school, I think. If you're an actor in England, that's just the way to get into it but I've been so incredibly lucky in that I was brought up in to it. I still might go to drama school, if I wanted to do theater work, definitely. It's a completely different type of training.”

Ifs Thinking Way Stills Different Might Wanted School Actors Type Drama Lucky Training England Theater Hype

Author:Eleanor Tomlinson

“My first jobs were at Pixar and John Lasseter just doing animation would always allow actors to do that, and then animate to that. It was an early lesson for me that, if you're lucky enough, as I've been in my career thus far, to get really incredible iconic people to do your stuff, you want them to tell your story and you want them to be on page in the important moments, and they usually are.”

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Author:Dan Fogelman

“I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have. I think if you're one of a lucky five, maybe, you're that privileged, but most of us are living paycheck to paycheck and we're really extremely grateful for opportunities.”

Ifs Thinking Bigs Choices Actors Opportunity Five Lucky Grateful Privileged Misconception Paychecks

Author:Famke Janssen

“If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I don't know the director. If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen.”

Ifs Knows I Can Stories Happens Chance Lucky Directors Good Story Screenplays

Author:Ayelet Zurer

“If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again.”

Ifs Artist Hours Lucky Studios Hierarchy

Author:John Lennon

“It's better to be born lucky than rich. If you're rich, you may lose your money, but if you're born lucky, you will always have more money.”

Ifs May Born Loses Rich Lucky More Money Lucky You

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“There are many things I'm looking forward to in 2013, both personally and professionally. Plans for new restaurants in the U.S., including Eataly Chicago, are underway, and I'm gearing up for the 2013 Ironman world championships in Hawaii - if I'm lucky enough to get a spot!”

Ifs World Enough Plans Lucky Including Spots Restaurants Chicago Championship Hawaii Looking Forward Ironman Gearing Up

Author:Joe Bastianich

“There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind.”

Ifs Years Two Secret Behinds Lucky Stealing Two Years Spy

Author:Mort Sahl

“I think all gay guys should get married. I think they should have to get married. They should have to adopt kids because, actually, I'm getting tired of their happy-go-lucky lifestyle. I've had it with them being all happy and in shape. I could look good in denim short shorts and combat boots, too, if I had all day to do leg presses at the gym.”

Ifs Thinking Should Looks Kids Guy Gay Shapes Lucky Married Should Have Presses Tired Legs Lifestyle Gym Combat Boots Shorts Getting Tired Denim Gay Guy Happy Go Lucky Combat Boots Short Shorts

Author:Greg Giraldo

“I never felt in competition with anybody in war photography. You're lucky to get your ass in and out again. It's as simple as that. It's the easiest photography in the world to shoot somebody who's been shot up. It doesn't take a genius. That's easy. The only thing you need to know is your photography. Get in and if you're lucky get out. And get as close as you can get.”

Ifs Knows World Needs War Felt Easy Simple Genius Lucky Photography Shots Competition Ass

Author:David Douglas Duncan

“My money's riding on this dark horse, baby My heart is sayin' it's the lucky one And its true color's gonna shine through someday If we let this Let this dark horse run”

Ifs Heart Running Dark Color Baby My Heart Lucky Horse Shining Someday Riding True Colors Dark Horse

Author:Amanda Marshall

“If you're lucky enough to have captured maybe two hundred memorable pictures, you still haven't captured that much experience, have you?”

Ifs Stills Two Enough Havens Lucky Hundred Memorable Captured

Author:Phil Stern

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