“People always tell me how lucky I am that my kids are adventurous eaters, but I don't believe that it's luck at all. By my involving them in the process, not only are they more likely to try something new, but also I can count on them to make better choices when I'm not around.” PeopleTryingBelieveI CanKidsChoicesProcessLuckyLuckDon't BelieveSomething NewAdventurousInvolving Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar
“Many kids think unless they go to one of these great Ivy League schools, which I was lucky enough to go to later, that they won't get the same kind of learning. But I learned just the opposite lesson; that my best teachers were not at Harvard University.” ThinkingKindEnoughKidsSchoolTeacherLessonsLuckyOppositesUniversityLeagueHarvardIvyBest TeacherIvy LeagueHarvard UniversityIvy League Schools Author:Doris Kearns Goodwin
“I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book now, and I can love a book very much, it's never going to be that childhood passion for a book. There's some element, something special about the way they're reading books and experiencing books that's finite.” BookKidsPassionReadingChildhoodSpecialLuckyAppreciateReading Books Author:Rebecca Stead
“I'm lucky; my parents have never said to me, "You're a kid, so you just don't know." They say, "How can we discuss the world and learn from these events together?"” WorldKidsTogetherParentLucky Author:Yara Shahidi
“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
“Most of the theater I've done in the past was when I was a kid or a teenager so it feels like being a kid again. I'm happier than I've ever been. You really get to go to work every day and play, and try different things. I don't know, I've never felt so lucky to do this job. So I hope to do a lot more theater.” TryingDifferentDoneKidsPastLuckyTeenagerSo LuckyBeing A Kid Author:Alexis Bledel
“I always wanted to be an actor. I was one of those lucky kids - or cursed kids - who always knew what he wanted to do. My wife too. She's a ballet dancer, and she's known what she wanted to do since she was 5. My mother used to tell this story about how our TV set had been taken to be repaired, and back then, they took the set out of the console. So there was this empty console with an empty TV screen in it, and I would climb inside and be like, "I'm on TV!"” KidsMotherTakenWifeLuckyEmptyMy WifeDancerBalletBallet Dancer Author:Tim Matheson
“I find more and more, as time goes on, these people I meet, they are starting to become these people I look up to more and more. Like Julianne Moore, also, on Crazy Stupid Love: kids, husband, priorities straight. Or Woody Harrelson's like that. Those are the people I really admire, and that's success to me: being able to balance that life and not buy into it. And do the work that you want to do and makes you happy, because you're lucky enough to do it. But if I never got a role again, I've got this incredible life.” PeopleEnoughKidsCrazyStupidBalanceLuckyHusbandIncrediblesPrioritiesAdmireLook UpMake You HappyWoody Author:Emma Stone
“I've loved movies since I could remember. They were literally the most significant thing in my life as a kid. I'm really lucky that I've felt so inspired by them; they're such a good format to tell a story.” KidsRememberLuckyInspiredSignificant Author:Rowan Blanchard
“I was always trying to perform, but never with some dream to be on the stage. The stage was wherever I was standing at the time. I was lucky that the department of education in Sydney had a program where you could try out for these ensembles - kind of like extra-curricular sports, but for little drama kids. I got into that system, and it took me right through high school.” TryingKindDreamKidsSchoolSportsDramaLuckyHigh SchoolProgram Author:Jai Courtney
“America is really tough on mothers, especially going to work again. A lot of women have to breast-pump, and they can't do that at work, and they only have two weeks' maternity leave. I'm very lucky that I get to pick and choose. And it helps that all my agents are women, and very protective of me. But for other working mothers here, support from their employers is not good enough. It shouldn't even be an issue. It's really important to be able to raise your kid without a fear of losing your job.” ImportantEnoughHelpingKidsMotherSupportLuckyLosingToughGood EnoughGoing To WorkNot Good Enough Author:Robyn Lawley
“For me, difference is beautiful, there is not only one beauty, and in a collection I always like to show mixed directions. When you look at people or things, there are all these codes and standards that come into play around what is considered ugly or beautiful, and I've always questioned that. When you're a kid, you're not conditioned, you don't see perversity, there's a state of innocence where everything is beautiful, you see differently....I am lucky because I am doing now what I dreamt of doing as a child, and I like to think that I've retained a childlike state of mind.” PeopleThinkingMindChildrenKidsBeautifulLuckyUglyInnocenceCodeState Of Mind Author:Jean Paul Gaultier
“I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really. But also, for me, from the time I was like 10 years old, all I ever wanted to do was be in a band and make music. So to get the chance to do that, to live your dreams or wishes, I just seize it and try and run with it. I never sort of think, oh, the pressure, or it's too much. You're lucky to be doing it. It's a great gift to have, and I appreciate it.” ThinkingTryingDreamRunningKidsWishChanceLuckyAppreciate Author:Paul Weller
“I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.” WorldNeedsI CanBigsKidsEnjoyWonderfulProudLuckyContactWonderful World Author:Robert Plant
“Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.” WayInspirationalFeelsMotivationalKidsActorsGivenActingCreativeLuckyFindingsAccessInsecurityAngstOverweight Author:Ryan Reynolds
“When 'American Pie' happened, I was so lucky to get that opportunity and I just tried to do a good job in that genre. But the films that inspired me as a kid were, like, Malcolm McDowall in 'A Clockwork Orange.' He was my hero.” KidsJobsFilmOpportunityHappenedHeroLuckyInspiredGenrePieOrangeGood JobMy HeroSo LuckyClockworkAmerican Pie Author:Sean William Scott
“I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.” EnoughKidsNightChurchHolyLuckyEastWeekendEvangelicalGreat Night Author:Paul Stanley